Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 4521 till 4540 of 4622.

  • Baroness Orczy Your mock saint who stands in a niche is not a woman if she have not suffered, still less a woman if she have not sinned. Fall at the feet of your idol as you wish, but drag her down to your level after that - the only level she should ever reach, that of your heart.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Your next-door neighbor is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bruce Springsteen Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage... Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier.
    Q magazine August 1992
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Bethany Mota YouTube videos, they're more personal and more real than a commercial on TV.
    Bethany Mota
    American video blogger (1995 - )
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  • Babe Ruth [When told that he was making more than the president of the United States Herbert Hoover in 1930:] I had a better year than he did.
    Boston Globe, Will Rogers Dispatch by Will Rogers, January 9, 1930
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • William Shakespeare 'Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • B. F. Skinner A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • William Shakespeare A friend should bear a friend's infirmities, But Brutus makes mine greater than they are.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • William Shakespeare A gentleman that loves to hear himself talk, will speak more in a minute than he will stand to in a month.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Joseph Addison A good conscience is to the soul what health is to the body; it preserves constant ease and serenity within us; and more than countervails all the calamities and afflictions which can befall us from without.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Vilayat Inayat Khan A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.
    Vilayat Inayat Khan
    Teacher of meditation and of the traditions of Sufism (1882 - 1927)
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  • Richard Dawkins A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Ambrose Bierce An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Jane Austen An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Thomas Alva Edison As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
    Thomas Alva Edison
    American inventor and founder of General Electric (1847 - 1931)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value to you than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • William James As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Helen Keller Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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