Quotes with 40-something

Quotes 1341 till 1360 of 1776.

  • Samuel Johnson There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Baltasar Gracián There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Henry Miller There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Gore Vidal There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.
    Gore Vidal
    American writer and criticus (1925 - 2012)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch There is something about inside information which seems to paralyse a man's reasoning powers.
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Aaron Copland There is something about music that keeps its distance even at the moment that it engulfs us. It is at the same time outside and away from us and inside and part of us. In one sense it dwarfs us, and in another we master it.
    Aaron Copland
    American composer and writer (1900 - 1990)
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  • Anatole Broyard There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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  • Aldous Huxley There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Mark Twain There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Joseph Conrad There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bliss Carman There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame She calls, and calls each vagabond by name.
    Bliss Carman
    Canadian poet (1861 - 1929)
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  • Ovid There is something in omens.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Carlisle Floyd There is something inherent in our democracy that tends to want to level. America is a little uncomfortable in the presence of someone who is distinctly superior in whatever way.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Billy Corgan There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Lord George Byron There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Benjamin Graham There is something paradoxical in the fact that by establishing an export market we subject our entire domestic production to the vagaries of that market.
    Source: Storage and Stability Part IV, Ch. XIV, Farm Problems and Remedies, p. 1
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • John O'Brian There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.
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  • Anna Quindlen There is something so settled and stodgy about turning a great romance into next of kin on an emergency room form, and something so soothing and special, too.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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