Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • C. Lamb Nothing puzzles me more than time and space, and yet nothing troubles less, as I never think about them.
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  • Charles Lamb Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less, as I never think about them.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Michel Leiris Nothing seems more like a whorehouse to me than a museum. In it you find the same equivocal aspect, the same frozen quality.
    Michel Leiris
    French ethnologist, poet and writer (1901 - 1990)
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  • Bill Cosby Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Claud Cockburn Nothing sets a person up more than having something turn out just the way it's supposed to be, like falling into a Swiss snowdrift and seeing a big dog come up with a little cask of brandy round its neck.
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.''
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Barbara Rosenblat Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook.
    Barbara Rosenblat
    British actress (1950 - )
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  • Douglas Adams Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Ada Louise Huxtable Nothing was more up-to-date when it was built, or is more obsolete today, than the railroad station.
    Ada Louise Huxtable
    American architecture critic and writer (1921 - 2013)
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  • Carl Rowan Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested upon.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Adam Weishaupt Nothing would be more profitable to us than a right history of mankind.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
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  • Connie Stevens Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.
    Connie Stevens
    American actress and singer (1938 - )
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  • Aaron Douglas Trimble Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Nothing, it is true, is more common than for both Science and Art to pay homage to the spirit of the age, and for creative taste to accept the law of critical taste.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Natalie Clifford Barney Novels are longer than life.
    Natalie Clifford Barney
    American-born French author (1876 - 1972)
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  • Buzz Osborne Now I have never met a group of people who hate music more than professional roadies, and it is clearly obvious that 99.9 percent of them know nothing at all about music. Nothing. I find this to be quite strange, really. It's like someone who works in a bakery knowing nothing about baking.
    Buzz Osborne
    American guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (1964 - )
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  • Ben Folds Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Billy Collins Now that I'm older, a real source of interest is the ages of the dead, the number; the day is off to an optimistic start when the departed are all older than I.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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