Quotes with has-been

Quotes 3041 till 3060 of 5418.

  • Lazarus Long No storyteller has ever been able to dream up anything as fantastically unlikely as what really does happen in this mad Universe.
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  • B. F. Skinner No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Edgar Sheffield Brightman No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.
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  • Seneca No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne No wind favors him who has no destined port.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Hitopadesa No wise person should make known the loss of fortune, any malpractice in their house, his being cheated, or having been disgraced.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Clare Boothe Luce No woman has ever so comforted the distressed or distressed the comfortable. [On Eleanor Roosevelt]
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Alfred de Vigny No writer, no matter how gifted, immortalizes himself unless he has crystallized into expressive and original phrase the eternal sentiments and yearnings of the human heart.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Carrie Chapman Catt No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
    Carrie Chapman Catt
    American women's suffrage leader (1859 - 1947)
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  • Salman Rushdie No, I don't think it's fair to label Islam 'violent.' But I will say that to my knowledge, no writer has ever gone into hiding for criticizing the Amish.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Israel Zangwill No... the real American has not yet arrived. He is only in the Crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races, perhaps the coming superman.
    Israel Zangwill
    British writer (1864 - 1926)
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  • Annie Dillard No; we have been as usual asking the wrong question. It does not matter a hoot what the mockingbird on the chimney is singing. The real and proper question is: Why is it beautiful?
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Sydney Harris Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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  • Aldous Huxley Nobody can have the consolations of religion or philosophy unless he has first experienced their desolations.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Margaret Mead Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation.
    Margaret Mead
    American cultural anthropologist (1901 - 1978)
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  • Alice Walker Nobody has ever convinced me that race is real.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Assata Shakur Nobody in the world, nobody in history, has ever gotten their freedom by appealing to the moral sense of the people who were oppressing them.
    Source: Assata: An Autobiography (2016)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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