Quotes with has-been

Quotes 2921 till 2940 of 5418.

  • A. E. Housman Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Marquis de Sade Nature, who for the perfect maintenance of the laws of her general equilibrium, has sometimes need of vices and sometimes of virtues, inspires now this impulse, now that one, in accordance with what she requires.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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  • Bill Dedman NBC News found that FEMA has redrawn maps even for properties that have repeatedly filed claims for flood losses from previous storms. At least some of the properties are on the secret 'repetitive loss list' that FEMA sends to communities to alert them to problem properties.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Carl Sandburg Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Oliver Cromwell Necessity has no law.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez Necessity has the face of a dog.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Carter G. Woodson Negroes who have been so long inconvenienced and denied opportunities for development are naturally afraid of anything that sounds like discrimination.
    Carter G. Woodson
    American historian, author and journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Aeschylus Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • Ovid Neither can the wave that has passed by be recalled, nor the hour which has passed return again.
    Ovid
    Roman poet (43 - 17)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck Network technology has irrevocably changed campaigning and elections. It has the potential to transform governance and the workings of our democracy for the better.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Marcel Proust Neurosis has an absolute genius for malingering. There is no illness which it cannot counterfeit perfectly. If it is capable of deceiving the doctor, how should it fail to deceive the patient?
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Raoul Vaneigem Never before has a civilization reached such a degree of a contempt for life; never before has a generation, drowned in mortification, felt such a rage to live.
    Raoul Vaneigem
    Belgian philosopher (1934 - )
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  • Baltasar Gracián Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • W. C. Fields Never cry over spilt milk, because it may have been poisoned.
    W. C. Fields
    American Actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Margaret Mead Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Lewis E. Lawes Never give a man up until he has failed at something he likes.
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina Never have a picture of a well-adjusted African on the cover of your book, or in it, unless that African has won the Nobel prize.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Aldous Huxley Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Marquis de Sade Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.
    Marquis de Sade
    French aristocrat, writer, politician and philosopher (1740 - 1814)
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