Quotes with but-not-altogether-satisfactory

Quotes 6901 till 6920 of 15856.

  • C. P. Snow It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
    Public Affairs (1971)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Shuster It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Anatole France It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
    - +
     0
  • Assata Shakur It is our duty to fight for our freedom.
    It is our duty to win.
    We must love each other and support each other.
    We have nothing to lose but our chains.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987) 67
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
    - +
     0
  • Abba Eban It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
    - +
     0
  • Barnett Newman It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
    - +
     0
  • Oscar Wilde It is personalities, not principles, that move the age
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) H. 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
    Has Religion Made Useful Contributions to Civilization?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • H.G. Wells It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • Epicurus It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men all live in a city without walls.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
    - +
     0
  • John Wagstaff It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.
    - +
     0
  • Alexandre Dumas père It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
    - +
     0
  • Margaret Anderson It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
    Margaret Anderson
    American editor and publisher (1886 - 1973)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Jordan It is reason, and not passion, which must guide our deliberations, guide our debate, and guide our decision.
    Speaking the truth with eloquent thunder
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Brigitte Bardot It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
    - +
     0
All but-not-altogether-satisfactory famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 346)