Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 3361 till 3380 of 4584.

  • Ben Okri The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
    - +
     0
  • André Gide The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
    - +
     0
  • Ram Dass The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
    Ram Dass
    American spiritual teacher, psychologist and author (1931 - 2019)
    - +
     0
  • Beth Henley The most glorious thing about working in the collaborative art is when you have somebody like Susan Kingsley or Kathy Bates who are better than your play.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
    - +
     0
  • Malcolm Muggeridge The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
    Malcolm Muggeridge
    British Broadcaster (1903 - 1990)
    - +
     0
  • Germaine Greer The most threatened group in human societies as in animal societies is the unmated male: the unmated male is more likely to wind up in prison or in an asylum or dead than his mated counterpart. He is less likely to be promoted at work and he is considered a poor credit risk.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bobbi Brown The most versatile lipstick you can own is a shade that's just a bit brighter than your natural lip color.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
    - +
     0
  • Ben Harper The music is in the lead here, and a large part of this, I have no idea what I'm doing. I feel a closer bond with the craft of songwriting, stronger than I ever have.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Woodrow Wilson The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
    - +
     0
  • Lewis H. Lapham The national distrust of the contemplative temperament arises less from an innate Philistinism than from a suspicion of anything that cannot be counted, stuffed, framed or mounted over the fireplace in the den.
    Lewis H. Lapham
    American essayist and editor (1935 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bill Simmons The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carl Sagan The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 1014 neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness.
    Cosmos (1980)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
    - +
     0
  • Barry Lam The next revolution, the next trend is to be an intelligence-intensive company. That has more value to society than a labor-intensive company.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The nobler the truth or sentiment, the less imports the question of authorship.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Artur Schnabel The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes - ah, that is where the art resides.
    - +
     0
  • Jean Baudrillard The obese is in a total delirium. For he is not only large, of a size opposed to normal morphology: he is larger than large. He no longer makes sense in some distinctive opposition, but in his excess, his redundancy.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Hobbes The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
    - +
     0
  • Arthur Erickson The obsession with performance left no room for the development of the intuitive or spiritual impact of space and form other than the aesthetic of the machine itself.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
    - +
     0
  • Bjorn Lomborg The obvious issue is providing clean drinking water and sanitation to every single human being on earth at the cost of little more than one year of the Kyoto treaty.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
    - +
     0
All less-than-fulfilling famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 169)