Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

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  • Samuel Johnson I had rather see the portrait of a dog that I know, than all the allegorical paintings they can show me in the world.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Steinbeck I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.
    John Steinbeck
    American author (1902 - 1968)
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  • Georgia O'Keeffe I hate flowers - I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.
    Georgia O'Keeffe
    American painter and artist (1887 - 1986)
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  • William Shakespeare I hate ingratitude more in a person; than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or, any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Arthur Wellesley I hate the whole race. There is no believing a word they say, your professional poets, I mean there never existed a more worthless set than Byron and his friends for example.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Jimmy Connors I hate to lose more than I love to win.
    Jimmy Connors
    American tennis player (1952 - )
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  • August Strindberg I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love.
    August Strindberg
    Swedish writer (1849 - 1912)
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  • Mark Twain I have a higher and grander standard of principle than George Washington. He could not lie; I can, but I won t.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Lord George Byron I have a notion that gamblers are as happy as most people, being always excited; women, wine, fame, the table, even ambition, sate now and then, but every turn of the card and cast of the dice keeps the gambler alive - besides one can game ten times longer than one can do any thing else.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Orson Welles I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Tennessee Williams I have always been pushed by the negative. The apparent failure of a play sends me back to my typewriter that very night, before the reviews are out. I am more compelled to get back to work than if I had a success.
    Tennessee Williams
    American playwright (1911 - 1983)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lord George Byron I have always laid it down as a maxim - and found it justified by experience - that a man and a woman make far better friendships than can exist between two of the same sex - but then with the condition that they never have made or are to make love to each other.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Bill Shankly I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today.
    From his autobiography Its More Important Than That
    Bill Shankly
    Scottish football player and manager (1913 - )
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  • Horace I have completed a monument more lasting than brass.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Jessamyn West I have done more harm by the falseness of trying to please than by the honesty of trying to hurt.
    Jessamyn West
    American author of short stories and novels (1902 - 1984)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Samuel Johnson I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alan Greenspan I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.
    Alan Greenspan
    American economist (1926 - )
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