Quotes with has-been

Quotes 3221 till 3240 of 5418.

  • Jonathan Swift One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish had been left unsaid.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Barbara Demick One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
    Barbara Demick
    American journalist
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Jean de la Fontaine One often has need of one, inferior to himself.
    Jean de la Fontaine
    French writer (1621 - 1695)
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  • Michael Cibenko One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.
    Michael Cibenko
    American author
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  • Francis H. Bradley One said of suicide, ''As long as one has brains one should not blow them out.'' And another answered, ''But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot.''
    Francis H. Bradley
    British Philosopher (1846 - 1924)
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  • Oscar Wilde One should always play fair when one has the winning cards.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Albert Einstein One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Ayatollah Khomeini One thing I congratulate everyone on is the great explosion which has occurred in Washington's Black House and the very important scandal which has gripped leaders of America.
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  • Joseph Joubert One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Ad Reinhardt Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
    Ad Reinhardt
    American abstract painter (1913 - 1967)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Max Weber Only by strict specialization can the scientific worker become fully conscious, for once and perhaps never again in his lifetime, that he has achieved something that will endure. A really definitive and good accomplishment is today always a specialized ac
    Max Weber
    German economist, historian and sociologist (1864 - 1920)
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  • Richard Nixon Only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Angelina Grimke Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Ronald Knox Only man has dignity; only man, therefore, can be funny.
    Ronald Knox
    English Catholic priest, theologian and author (1888 - 1957)
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