Quotes with know-it-all

Quotes 4681 till 4700 of 8447.

  • Alan Turing No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company.
    Alan Turing
    English mathematician and computer scientist (1912 - 1954)
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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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  • Buzz Aldrin Nobody ever asks who was the seventh person on the Moon. The only thing they know is who's number one and who's number two. Does anybody know who the last man was?
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Bill Bryson Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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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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  • Bryan Robson Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Barbara Bush Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Lord George Byron None are all evil,
    quickening round his heart,
    one softer feeling would not yet depart.
    Source: The corsair 1, 12, 1
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Elie Wiesel None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.
    Source: Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Vaclav Havel None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • John Milton Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • John F. Kennedy Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war, not merely peace for Americans, but peace for all men; not merely peace in our time, but peace for all time.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Source: Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Source: Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • John S. Bonnell Not only is there a right to be happy, there is a duty to be happy. So much sadness exists in the world that we are all under obligation to contribute as much joy as lies within our powers.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Ben Affleck Not that it entirely matters: There is a perception that all actors make their movies. A lot of people assume you're responsible. George Clooney told me actors get all of the blame and all the credit.
    Ben Affleck
    American actor and filmmaker. (1972 - )
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  • Saskya Pandita Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man.
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  • John Milton Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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