Quotes with less-than-fulfilling

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 4584.

• I would rather be free in my mind, and be locked up in a prison cell, than to be a coward and not be able to say what I want.

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  Bobby Fischer
  American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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• I would rather be guilty of talking over a person's head than behind his back.

  Adlai Stevenson II
  American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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• I would rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils.

  Aeschylus
  Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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• I would rather be kept alive in the efficient if cold altruism of a large hospital than expire in a gush of warm sympathy in a small one.

  Aneurin Bevan
  British Labor politician (1897 - 1960)
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• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

  Alexander Smith
  Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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• I would rather belong to a poor nation that was free than to a rich nation that had ceased to be in love with liberty.

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather clean than beg.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali
  Somali-born Dutch-American activist, feminist and author (1969 - )
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• I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts.

  John D. Rockefeller
  American industrialist: founder Exxon (1839 - 1937)
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• I would rather entertain and hope that people learned something than educate people and hope they were entertained.
  

  Walt Disney
  American producer (1901 - 1966)
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• I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

  Alexander the Great
  Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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• I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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• I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.

  R. A. Torrey
  American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer (1856 - 1928)
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• I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.

  Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
  American fighter pilot in WW I (1890 - 1973)
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• I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

  Gerry Spence
   
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• I would rather have a nod from an American, than a snuff-box from an emperor.

  Lord George Byron
  English poet (1788 - 1824)
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• I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

  Mark Twain
  American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.
  

  Harry S. Truman
  American president (1884 - 1972)
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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

  Robert Green Ingersoll
  American lawyer, a Civil War veteran and politician (1833 - 1899)
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• I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.

  Albert Camus
  French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

  Woodrow Wilson
  American president (1856 - 1924)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• knowledgeable
• entertained
• ultimately
• something
• knowledge
• excellent

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