Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 1401 till 1420 of 4622.

  • Charlie Chaplin I remain just one thing, and one thing only - and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
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  • Beatrix Potter I remember I used to half believe and wholly play with fairies when I was a child. What heaven can be more real than to retain the spirit-world of childhood, tempered and balanced by knowledge and common-sense...
    Journal entry
    Beatrix Potter
    English writer, illustrator and conservationist (1866 - 1943)
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  • Anita Hill I resent the idea that people would blame the messenger for the message, rather than looking at the content of the message itself.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • William Blake I see every thing I paint in this world, but everybody does not see alike. To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I see men ordinarily more eager to discover a reason for things than to find out whether the things are so.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • George Sand I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it only from having bought it.
    George Sand
    French writer (1804 - 1876)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller I seek through comprehensive anticipatory design science and its reductions to physical practices to reform the environment instead of trying to reform humans, being intent thereby to accomplish prototyped capabilities of doing more with less...
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Sir Isaac Newton I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
    Sir Isaac Newton
    British scientist, mathematician (1643 - 1727)
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  • Samuel Beckett I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Lord George Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lord George Byron I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • A. N. Wilson I should prefer to have a politician who regularly went to a massage parlour than one who promised a laptop computer for every teacher.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Thomas Jefferson I sincerely believe that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity, under the name of funding, is but swindling futurity on a large scale.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Calvin Coolidge I sometimes wish that people would put a little more emphasis on the observance of the law than they do upon its enforcement.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Anne Frank I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
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  • Jim Bakker I started out by believing God for a newer car than the one I was driving. I started out believing God for a nicer apartment than I had. Then I moved up.
    Jim Bakker
    American televangelist (1940 - )
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  • Simone Weil I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • E. M. Forster I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
    Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) A Book That Influenced Me
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • E. M. Forster I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Alice James I suppose one has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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