Off Quotes - page 2

There is nothing so stupid as the educated man if you get him off the thing he was educated in. (Will Rogers)
Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles, and see that the world is moving. View quote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
He flung himself from the room, flung himself upon his horse and rode madly off in all directions. View quote
Stephen Leacock
Seeing a murder on television can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. View quote
Henry Ford
Love takes up where knowledge leaves off. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
I was the conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say; I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger. View quote
Harriet Tubman
Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run? View quote
Germaine Greer
There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. View quote
John Updike
Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration. View quote
William Hazlitt
A grave blockhead should always go about with a lively one - they show one another off to the best advantage. (William Hazlitt)
You Americans, you treat the Third World in the way an Iraqi peasant treats his new bride. Three days of honeymoon, and then it's off to the fields. View quote
Saddam Hussein
It seemed to me that I had barely reached the Court when people were trying to get me off. View quote
William O. Douglas
The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. View quote
William O. Douglas
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. View quote
Herbert Spencer
The richness of the world, all artificial pleasures, have the taste of sickness and give off a smell of death in the face of certain spiritual possessions. View quote
Georges Rouault
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility. View quote
Arnold J. Toynbee
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. View quote
Henry Miller
A winner is someone who recognizes his God-given talents, works his tail off to develop them into skills, and uses these skills to accomplish his goals. View quote
Larry Bird
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness. (Joseph Addison)
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. View quote
Joseph Addison
I had assumed that I would age with all my friends growing old around me, dying off very gradually one by one. And here was a plague that cut them off so early. View quote
Thom Gunn
The very hirelings of the press, whose trade it is to buoy up the spirits of the people. have uttered falsehoods so long, they have played off so many tricks, that their budget seems, at last, to be quite empty. View quote
William Cobbett
Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. View quote
Beatrix Potter