Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 3401 till 3420 of 4584.

  • Owen Davies The pace of progress will accelerate so that even engineers and technical managers will find it necessary to recycle back through school after no more than ten years. In particular fast-moving technologies skills will become obsolete every five years or so.
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  • Publilius Syrus The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Frederic Raphael The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit; their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.
    Frederic Raphael
    American screenwriter, biographer and writer (1931 - )
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  • Finley Peter Dunne The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
    Finley Peter Dunne
    American Journalist, Humorist (1867 - 1936)
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  • Billy Collins The pen is an instrument of discovery rather than just a recording implement. If you write a letter of resignation or something with an agenda, you're simply using a pen to record what you have thought out.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Terry Pratchett The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton The pen is mightier than the sword.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Francis Bacon The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bruce Dern The people I worked with were bigger than life. Once you put them on the screen, they were huge.
    Bruce Dern
    American actor (1936 - )
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  • Anita Loos The people I'm furious with are the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept quiet or it ruins the whole racket.
    Anita Loos
    American writer, screenwriter (1889 - 1981)
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  • Billy Higgins The people in Japan know more about the history of jazz and the musicians than the people in the United States do.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • William S. Burroughs The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Francis Bacon The person is a poor judge who by an action can be disgraced more in failing than they can be honored in succeeding.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Og Mandino The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Jawaharlal Nehru The person who runs away exposes himself to that very danger more than a person who sits quietly.
    Jawaharlal Nehru
    Indian nationalist and statesman (1889 - 1964)
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  • Burt Rutan The photographs of space taken by our astronauts have been published all over the place. But the eye is a much more dynamic mechanism than any camera or pictures. It's a more exciting view in person than looking at the photographs. Of course, I personally am sick and tired of hearing people talk like that: I want to see it myself!
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Thornton Wilder The planting of trees in the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than the procreation of children.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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