Quotes with has-been

Quotes 4501 till 4520 of 5418.

  • George Eliot There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Mark Twain There is no such thing as ''the Queen's English.'' The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Toni Morrison There is no such thing as race. None. There is just a human race - scientifically, anthropologically. Racism is a construct, a social construct... it has a social function, racism.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Germaine Greer There is no such thing as security. There never has been.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Martin Luther There is no wisdom save in truth. Truth is everlasting, but our ideas about truth are changeable. Only a little of the first fruits of wisdom, only a few fragments of the boundless heights, breadths and depths of truth, have I been able to gather.
    Martin Luther
    German preacher (1483 - 1546)
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  • T. S. Eliot There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they are all in awe of the United States and other Western powers, and are indebted to them.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Elisabeth Kübler-Ross There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.
    Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
    Swiss-American psychiatrist (1926 - 2004)
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  • Seneca There is nothing more despicable than an old man who has no other proof than his age to offer of his having lived long in the world.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Suzanne Lafollette There is nothing more innately human than the tendency to transmute what has become customary into what has been divinely ordained.
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  • Oliver Goldsmith There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only get six philosophers on his side.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is nothing so absurd that some philosopher has not already said it.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Agatha Christie There is nothing so dangerous for anyone who has something to hide as conversation! A human being, Hastings, cannot resist the opportunity to reveal himself and express his personality which conversation gives him. Every time he will give himself away.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • René Descartes There is nothing so strange and so unbelievable that it has not been said by one philosopher or another.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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  • Havelock Ellis There is nothing that war has ever achieved we could not better achieve without it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Mahatma Gandhi There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Samuel Johnson There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Mark Twain There is nothing you can say in answer to a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they always embarrass me - I always feel that they have not said enough.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Barbara Olson There is one question that I don't think Gary Condit can answer, and that I think is why we all aimed at Gary Condit, besides the fact that he has a relationship.
    Barbara Olson
    American lawyer (1955 - 2001)
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  • Victor Hugo There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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