Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 2001 till 2020 of 4584.

  • Bernie Sanders It makes a lot more sense for us to be investing in jobs and education rather than jails and incarceration.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Giordano Bruno It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Paul Auster It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.
    Moon Palace (2010) 87
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Ezra Pound It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Barry Commoner It reflects a prevailing myth that production technology is no more amenable to human judgment or social interests than the laws of thermodynamics, atomic structure or biological inheritance.
    Barry Commoner
    American cellular biologist, college professor, and politician (1917 - 2012)
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  • Rollo May It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom. It is often easier to play the martyr, as it is to be rash in battle.
    Rollo May
    American psychologist
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  • Napoleon It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith It seemed to me pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Samuel Johnson It seems not more reasonable to leave the right of printing unrestrained, because writers may be afterwards censured, than it would be to sleep with doors unbolted, because by our laws we can hang a thief.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Flannery O'Connor It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
    Flannery O'Connor
    American writer and essayist (1925 - 1964)
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  • Calvin Klein It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
    Calvin Klein
    American fashion designer (1942 - )
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  • Frederick the Great It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most persevering researches.
    Frederick the Great
    King of Prussia (1740-1786) (1712 - 1786)
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  • Alan Dershowitz It simply cannot be disputed that for decades the Palestinian leadership was more interested in there not being a Jewish state than in there being a Palestinian state.
    Alan Dershowitz
    American lawyer and author (1938 - )
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  • Jerry Gillies It takes a lot more energy to fail than to succeed, since it takes a lot of concentrated energy to hold on to beliefs that don't work.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • David Bailey It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary.
    David Bailey
    English fashion and portrait (1938 - )
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  • Anais Nin It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Judith Rossner It takes far less courage to kill yourself than it takes to make yourself wake up one more time. It is harder to stay where you are than to get out.
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  • Rosa Parks It takes more than one person to bring about peace - it takes all of us.
    Rosa Parks
    American activist in the civil rights movement (1913 - 2005)
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