Quotes with has-been

Quotes 3601 till 3620 of 5418.

  • Henri-Louis Bergson Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.
    Henri-Louis Bergson
    French philosopher and Nobel Prize winner in Literature (1927) (1859 - 1941)
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  • Benjamin Stillingfleet Spite of all the fools that pride has made, 'Tis not on man a useless burthen laid; Pride has ennobled some, and some disgraced; It hurts not in itself, but as 'tis placed; When right, its views know none but virtue's bound; When wrong, it scarcely looks one inch around.
    Benjamin Stillingfleet
    British botanist, translator and author (1702 - 1771)
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  • Archibald MacLeish Spring has many American faces. There are cities where it will come and go in a day and counties where it hangs around and never quite gets there. Summer is drawn blinds in Louisiana, long winds in Wyoming, shade of elms and maples in New England.
    Archibald MacLeish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Rainer Maria Rilke Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.
    Rainer Maria Rilke
    German poet (1875 - 1926)
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  • Bob Ainsworth Stalin's policies pushed the world into the Cold War. Putin has the potential to be equally as dangerous.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Billy Gardell Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.
    Billy Gardell
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1969 - )
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  • Barry Eisler Stephen King has inspired me with his humor and honesty, and his admonition that the author's job is to tell the truth.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bjorn Ulvaeus Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has but without all the people and traffic. It's also become a very creative city, not only for music but also for fashion and computer games.
    Bjorn Ulvaeus
    Swedish songwriter, producer, member of ABBA (1945 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie Stories in families are colossally important. Every family has stories: some funny, some proud, some embarrassing, some shameful. Knowing them is proof of belonging to the family.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Albert Camus Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Hitopadesa Subdue fate by exerting human strength to the maximum; and if, when the effort has been made and success is not achieved, no one else can be blamed.
    Hitopadesa
    Indian text in Sanskrit
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  • Fran Lebowitz Success didn't spoil me, I've always been insufferable.
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Sam Ewing Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
    Sam Ewing
    American baseball player (1949 - )
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Success has always been a great liar.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Michael Korda Success has always been easy to measure. It is the distance between one's origins and one's final achievement.
    Michael Korda
    American publisher (1933 - )
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  • Napoleon Hill Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Howard Whitman Success is no exclusive club. It is open to each individual who has the courage to choose his own goal and go after it. It is from this forward motion that human growth springs, and out of it comes the human essence known as character.
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  • Booker T. Washington Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Billy Ocean Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love.
    Billy Ocean
     
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