Quotes with 40-something

Quotes 1361 till 1380 of 1776.

  • Thomas Mann There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the color, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • George Steiner There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
    George Steiner
    French-born American Critic, Novelist (1929 - 2020)
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  • Emmeline Pankhurst There is something that Governments care for far more than human life, and that is the security of property, and so it is through property that we shall strike the enemy. Be militant each in your own way. I incite this meeting to rebellion.
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  • Robert Half There is something that is much more scarce, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Beth Ditto There is something to be said for people who have to work hard, be creative, produce what they have with little - or no - means. Those of us from poor homes have the advantage of thinking for ourselves and of knowing that when times get hard, things could always be worse.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Peace Pilgrim There is something to that old saying that hate injures the hater, not the hated.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Oscar Wilde There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Herman Melville There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Sir Thomas Browne There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
    Sir Thomas Browne
    British author, physician and philosopher (1605 - 1682)
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  • C. P. Snow There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.
    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Hermann Hesse There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • E. M. Forster There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Plato There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Carlos Fuentes There must be something beyond slaughter and barbarism to support the existence of mankind and we must all help search for it.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • William James There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barry McGuire There was a report that used to come out back in those days, I don't know if it was the Gavin Report or something like that. And they said, no matter what McGuire comes out with next, we're not gonna play it.
    Barry McGuire
    American singer-songwriter (1935 - )
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  • Billy Joel There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.
    Billy Joel
    American singer-songwriter and pianist (1949 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch There's a huge raft of roles that actors in our culture perform, and you can see any one of about three Hamlets in a year. It's not something to be completely daunted by.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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