Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Brigitte Bardot What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
    Brigitte Bardot
    French fashion model, singer and actress (1934 - )
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  • George Eliot What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Igor Stravinsky What force is more potent than love?
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Ben Elliot What goes around comes around in business, and it's better to help people out rather than bill them every time you speak to them.
    Ben Elliot
    British politician (1975 - )
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  • Charles Dickens What greater gift than the love of a cat.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Eric Hoffer What greater reassurance can the weak have than that they are like anyone else?
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Margaret Oliphant What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Edward Dahlberg What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carrie Fisher What I always wanna tell young people now: Pay attention. This isn't gonna happen again. Rather than try to understand it as it's going along, have it go along for a while and then understand it.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Anthony Weiner What I am saying is, all health care has a problem with costs. Medicare is growing slower than the private insurance plans. Why? Because of their efficiency. They don't have to give money to shareholders. Why should be defending shareholders?
    Anthony Weiner
    American politician (1964 - )
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  • Anna Freud What I have always wanted for myself is much more primitive. It is probably nothing more than the affection of the people with whom I am in contact, and their good opinion of me.
    Anna Freud
    Austrian-British psychoanalyst (1895 - 1982)
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  • Arthur Schwartz What I love about Brooklyn is there are more wonderful little joints than anywhere.
    Arthur Schwartz
    American composer and film producer (1900 - 1984)
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  • Angela Davis What I think is different today is the lack of political connection between the black middle class and the increasing numbers of black people who are more impoverished than ever before.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Bill Flores What I'd like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Barbra Streisand What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Bruce Lee What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at what is from a position of thinking what should be.
    Striking Thoughts (2000)
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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