Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 4584.

  • John Updike That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Samuel Johnson That observation which is called knowledge of the world will be found much more frequently to make men cunning than good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman That the Jews were unholy was a belief so ingrained by the Church [by the 14th century] that the most devout persons were the harshest in their antipathy, none more so than St. Louis.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Aldous Huxley That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare That what we have, we prize not to the worth
    whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost,
    why, than we rack the value.
    Much ado about nothing (1598)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which builds is better than that which is built.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes That which costs little is less valued.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Johnson That which is to be loved long must be loved with reason rather than with passion.
    Idler
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Edmond de Goncourt That which, perhaps, hears more nonsense than anything in the world, is a picture in a museum.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Belle Livingstone That winter two things happened which made me see that the world, the flesh, and the devil were going to be more powerful influences in my life after all than the chapel bell. First, I tasted champagne, second, the theatre.
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  • Ben Barnes That's the thing, when you play younger characters they're always less casual. You're hungrier or more naive. Those things wane in time.
    Ben Barnes
    English actor (1981 - )
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  • Ben van Berkel That's what I love about Chicago... It is the staccato aspect of the skyscrapers. But the ground is very loose, very relaxed. It makes Chicago far more pleasant than other cities.
    Ben van Berkel
    Dutch architect
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  • Leslie Fiedler The ''text'' is merely one of the contexts of a piece of literature, its lexical or verbal one, no more or less important than the sociological, psychological, historical, anthropological or generic.
    Leslie Fiedler
    American literary critic (1917 - 2003)
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  • Carol Loomis The 'Fortune' I came to work for on Jan. 25, 1954, was a monthly, with pages significantly larger than what you're reading; 'art' covers that did not relate to stories inside; and a newsstand price of $1.25.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Bob Barr The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Emily Dickinson The abdication of belief makes the behavior small - better an ignis fatuus than no illume at all.
    Emily Dickinson
    American poet (1830 - 1886)
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  • John D. Rockefeller The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee and I will pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
    John D. Rockefeller
    American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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  • Bruce Barton The ablest men in all walks of modern life are men of faith. Most of them have much more faith than they themselves realize.
    Bruce Barton
    American Author, Advertising Executive (1886 - 1967)
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  • Napoleon The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
    Napoleon
    French Emperor (1769 - 1821)
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  • W. H. Auden The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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