Quotes with less-than-excellent

Quotes 1801 till 1820 of 4622.

  • Carolyn Heilbrun Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.
    Carolyn Heilbrun
    American academic and author (1926 - 2003)
    - +
     0
  • Philip Roth Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • John Berger Is boredom anything less than the sense of one's faculties slowly dying?
    John Berger
    English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (1926 - 2017)
    - +
     0
  • Anne Frank Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than another? Oh, it is sad, very sad, that once more, for the umpteenth time, the old truth is confirmed: ''What one Christian does is his own responsibility, what one Jew does is thrown back at all Jews.
    Anne Frank
    Jewish refugee and writer (1929 - 1945)
    - +
     0
  • Brin-Jonathan Butler Is Duran's 'No Mas' a more defining moment in his career than his victory over Sugar Ray Leonard in their first fight? For many, it is.
    Brin-Jonathan Butler
    American journalist and filmmaker
    - +
     0
  • Epictetus Is freedom anything else than the right to live as we wish? Nothing else.
    Epictetus
    Roman philosopher (50 - 130)
    - +
     0
  • Alice Walker Is solace anywhere more comforting than that in the arms of a sister.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Is the parent better than the child into whom he has cast his ripened being? Whence, then, this worship of the past?
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Anthony Bourdain Is there a sharper commentary on American culture and the world than The Simpsons?
    Anthony Bourdain
    American celebrity chef, author and journalist (1956 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Carl Gustav Jung It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how things are in themselves. The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
    - +
     0
  • Khaled Hosseini It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.
    The Kite Runner
    Khaled Hosseini
    Afghan-born American novelist and physician (1965 - )
    - +
     0
  • William Shakespeare It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Wilson It costs more to revenge than to bear with injuries.
    Maximes 75
    Thomas Wilson
    English bishop and writer (1663 - 1755)
    - +
     0
  • Blair Underwood It could be a great script but the director is not the right person for me to work for at this time. So there are a lot of elements that come into play and a lot of variables, but more than anything it's got to be a great script and a great character.
    Blair Underwood
    American actor (1964 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alexander Haig It didn't take long for the world to realize that the Shah was an enlightened liberal next to the bloody reactionary regime that followed, and which executed more people in three months than the Shah had done in 30 years.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
    - +
     0
  • John Ruskin It does not matter what the whip is; it is none the less a whip, because you have cut thongs for it out of your own souls.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
    - +
     0
  • Erma Bombeck It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
    Erma Bombeck
    American writer (1927 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Billy West It had more layers than an onion. These writers meant business. There was a level for everybody. Your major could be celestial mechanics, and there'd be celestial-mechanics jokes.
    Billy West
    American voice actor and musician (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Havelock Ellis It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
    - +
     0
  • Margaret Oliphant It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a quality so excellent in morals, so little satisfactory in art.
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
    - +
     0
All less-than-excellent famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 91)