Curb Quotes - Page 5

• A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I'm not a deeply religious person and I don't really know if there's a God or not and I don't really even care, but something out there has got to control something. Because people can put a gun in their mouth and pull the trigger and live and someone else can slip on the curb and die.

  Sonny Barger

  Religious, Gun, People

  Source: nwo.media.xs2.net

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• The bleak truth is that, under normal conditions, most of North America and Europe are buried under about 1.5km of ice. This bitterly frigid climate is interrupted occasionally by brief warm interglacials, typically lasting less than 10,000 years. The interglacial we have enjoyed throughout recorded human history, called the Holocene, began 11,000 years ago, so the ice is overdue, Chapman wrote. All those urging action to curb global warming need to take off the blinkers and give some thought to what we should do if we are facing global cooling instead.

  Philip K. Chapman

  America, Years, Europe

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• A farmer's horse is never lame, never unfit to go. Never throws out curbs, never breaks down before or behind. Like his master he is never showy. He does not paw and prance, and arch his neck, and bid the world admire his beauties...and when he is wanted, he can always do his work.

  Anthony Trollope

  Horse, Doe, Lame

  Anthony Trollope (2016). “Hunting Sketches: Trollope's Works”, p.17, 谷月社

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• I do try and curb my mouth, but I find it really hard. I wonder how many jobs I've talked myself out of!

  Anna Chancellor

  Jobs, Trying, Mouths

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Skateboarding is not a hobby. And it is not a sport. Skateboarding is a way of learning how to redefine the world around you. For most people, when they saw a swimming pool, they thought, ‘Let's take a swim.' But I thought, ‘Let's ride it.' When they saw the curb or a street, they would think about driving on it. I would think about the texture. I slowly developed the ability to look at the world through totally different means.

  Ian MacKaye

  Sports, Mean, Swimming

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• Discipline is necessary to curb the mind, otherwise there is no peace.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Discipline, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Commentaries on Living”, p.33, M-y books ltd

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• Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

  Al Gore

  Summer, School, Years

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• He who can curb his wrath as soon as it arises, as a timely antidote will check snake's venom that so quickly spreads, - such a monk gives up the here and the beyond, just as a serpent sheds its worn-out skin.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Giving Up, Wrath

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• Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

  John Locke

  Law, Punishment, Balance

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.28

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• Even when I was on Curb Your Enthusiasm I wasn't this "over-the-top" crazy character. It was still kind of play it straight but it was funny because the situation was funny. That's kind of how I portrayed things and I like dramas; I like to be able to - because in dramas you can laugh and joke and still be serious, be real. I like the realism of them.

  Mekhi Phifer

  Crazy, Real, Drama

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• Inflationary trends are under way. Wage increases, through strikes or threatened strikes, are rampant. Government expenditures are ballooning ominously. Hoarding has contributed unconscionably to price-boosting. The Government should institute measures calculated to arrest inflation. America's commitments are already so mountainous, international and domestic, that the pruning knife should be applied. You and I, all American taxpayers, don't possess limitless resources-our pockets are not bottomless. Curb inflation at every turn!

  B. C. Forbes

  Commitment, Government, Knives

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• ...the greatest political problem facing the world today is...how to curb the oppressive power of government, how to keep it within reasonable bounds.

  Leonard Read

  Government, Political, World

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• Ownership has been separated from control; and this separation has removed many of the checks which formerly operated to curb the misuse of wealth and power.

  Louis D. Brandeis

  Separation, Wealth, Ownership

  Dissent, Liggett Co. v. Lee, 288 U.S. 517, 1933.

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• Winter's palette is clear and spare, restrictive enough to curb the excesses of even the most daring gardeners.

  Rosemary Verey

  Winter, Excess, Enough

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• [T]ax cuts are not just something that all taxpayers deserve, but also the best way to curb government spending. It is the best kind of tax reform. If the money never reaches the table, Congress can't gobble it up.

  Zell Miller

  Cutting, Government, Reform

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• I think legislative assaults on motorcyclists are totally emotionally, disproportionate and totally unfair....they're instigated and implemented by people who know nothing about motorcycling, but have a prejudice. It's easy to curb the freedoms of others when you see no immediate impact on your own.

  Malcolm Forbes

  Thinking, Impact, People

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• To make a man richer, give him more money of curb his desires.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Men, Giving, Desire

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• The state of mind of the photographer creating is a blank. I might add that this condition exists only at special times, namely when looking for pictures. -Something keeps him from falling off curbs, down open manholes, into bumpers of skidding trucks while in this condition but goes off duty at other times. . . . This is a very special kind of blank. A very active state of mind really, it is a very receptive state. . .

  Minor White

  Fall, Creating, Mind

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• Any large extension of the Government into business affairs - no matter what the pretense and no matter how the the extension is labeled - will be bound to promote waste and put a curb on our prosperity and progress.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Government, Progress, Matter

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• Curb your talent lest it speed where virtue does not guide.

  Dante Alighieri

  Doe, Talent, Speed

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• We must set limits to our wishes, curb our desires, moderate our anger, always remembering that an individual can attain only an infinitesimal share in anything that is worth having; and that on the other hand, everyone must incur many of the ills of life

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Hands, Wish, Desire

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Counsels and Maxims: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.31, 谷月社

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• The implied threat of using nuclear weapons to curb guerrillas was as absurd as to talk of using a sledge hammer to ward off a swarm of mosquitoes.

  B. H. Liddell Hart

  Military, Hammers, Mosquitoes

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• I like the Americans for a great many reasons. I like them because even the modern thing called industrialism has not entirely destroyed in them the very ancient thing called democracy. I like them because they have a respect for work which really curbs the human tendency to snobbishness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  America, Democracy, Ancient

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• Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Nature, Science, Law

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.51, eKitap Projesi

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