Under Quotes - page 5

I didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions - the curtain was up. (Groucho Marx)
Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him. View quote
Mel Brooks
When under attack, no country is obligated to collect permission slips from allies to strike back. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
I don't believe we should bend the Constitution under any circumstance. It says what it says. We should do honor to it. View quote
Sonia Sotomayor
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. View quote
Miguel Ángel Ruiz
I pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof. View quote
John Adams
All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. View quote
Andrew Jackson
Real culture lives by sympathies and admirations, not by dislikes and disdains under all misleading wrappings it pounces unerringly upon the human core. View quote
William James
There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you have heard told, everything you have read returns to your mind, as if you were being transported, not toward heaven, but toward hell. Under torture you say not only what the inquisitor wants, but also what you imagine might please him, because a bond (this, truly, diabolical) is established between you and him. View quote
Umberto Eco
Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. View quote
Henry David Thoreau
I put a piece of paper under my pillow, and when I could not sleep I wrote in the dark. (Henry David Thoreau)
But then, so far as I know, I am the only performer who ever pledged his assistants to secrecy, honor and allegiance under a notarial oath. View quote
Harry Houdini
Recipe for greatness To bear up under loss, to fight the bitterness of defeat and the weakness of grief, to be victor over anger, to smile when tears are close, to resist evil men and base instincts, to hate hate and to love love, to go on when it would seem good to die, to seek ever after the glory and the dream, to look up with unquenchable faith in something evermore about to be, that is what any man can do, and so be great. View quote
Zane Grey
Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun. View quote
John D. Rockefeller
Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Fame lost its appeal for me when I went into a public restroom and an autograph seeker handed me a pen and paper under the stall door. View quote
Marlo Thomas
Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude. View quote
Edmund Burke
Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field that, of course, they are many in number or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour. View quote
Edmund Burke
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell It was a risk I had to takeand took. View quote
Robert Frost
My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, 'Good fences make good neighbors.' (Robert Frost)
Under certain circumstances there are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea. View quote
Henry James
Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. View quote
Margaret Mitchell
I define UNIX as 30 definitions of regular expressions living under one roof. View quote
Donald Knuth
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t. View quote
Margaret Mead