Quotes with have-not-paid-for-what-they-haves

Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 20393.

  • Billy Porter All you need to do is turn on the news, and in five minutes, you're depressed with the state of the world. Choosing joy is a completely active choice. It doesn't just happen. You can't just say, 'I want to be happy.' You have to take action.
    Billy Porter
    American actor and singer (1969 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Elizabeth Bowen All your youth you want to have your greatness taken for granted; when you find it taken for granted, you are unnerved.
    Elizabeth Bowen
    Anglo-Irish Novelist (1899 - 1973)
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  • Samuel Johnson Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead Almost all new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are first produced.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Aldous Huxley Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Cohen Almost all the ideas we have about being a man or being a woman are so burdened with pain, anxiety, fear and self-doubt. For many of us, the confusion around this question is excruciating.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Albert Pike Almost all the noblest things that have been achieved in the world, have been achieved by poor men; poor scholars, poor professional men, poor artisans and artists, poor philosophers, poets, and men of genius.
    Albert Pike
    American attorney, soldier, writer, and Freemason (1809 - 1891)
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  • Wyndham Lewis Almost anything that can be praised or advocated has been put to some disgusting use. There is no principle, however immaculate, that has not had its compromising manipulator.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Samuel Johnson Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bill Gates Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.
    "Bill Gates: Innovating to zero!", Feb 2010. www.ted.com/talks/bill_gates.html
    Bill Gates
    American business magnate, investor, author and philanthropist (1955 - )
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  • Edith Wharton Almost everybody in the neighborhood had ''troubles,'' frankly localized and specified; but only the chosen had ''complications.'' To have them was in itself a distinction, though it was also, in most cases, a death warrant. People struggled on for years wit
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bob Parsons Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it.
    Bob Parsons
    American entrepreneur, billionaire, and philanthropist (1950 - )
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  • Michel de Certeau Along with the lazy man... the dying man is the immoral man: the former, a subject that does not work; the latter, an object that no longer even makes itself available to be worked on by others.
    Michel de Certeau
    French writer
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  • Bob Ney Along with you, I have witnessed the unfortunate rise in gasoline prices that has accompanied the summer driving season and the more recent spike in prices due to Hurricane Katrina.
    Bob Ney
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Tatyana Tolstaya Already the writers are complaining that there is too much freedom. They need some pressure. The worse your daily life, the better your art. If you have to be careful because of oppression and censorship, this pressure produces diamonds.
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  • Ann Beattie Also minimalism is a term that all of us who share so little in common and who are lumped together as minimalists are not terribly happy with.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Ben Goldacre Alternative therapists don't kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Carl Clinton Van Doren Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
    Carl Clinton Van Doren
    American critic and biographer (1885 - 1980)
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  • Bob Monkhouse Although I have always loved the noise of laughter, I really can't fear the coming of quiet. As for funerals, I rather like them. Such nice things are always said about the deceased, I feel sad that they had to miss hearing it all by just a few days.
    Obituary in The Independent
    Bob Monkhouse
    English entertainer and comedian (1928 - 2003)
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