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Quotes 1261 till 1280 of 1696.

  • John Ruskin There is no action so slight or so mean but it may be done to a great purpose, and ennobled thereby.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Herbert N. Casson There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.
    Herbert N. Casson
    Canadian journalist and author (1869 - 1951)
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  • W. M. Thackeray There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Peter Ackroyd There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Bertrand Russell There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no one so old as to not think they may live a day longer.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton There is no past, so long as books shall live!
    The Souls of Books St. 4, 9
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Eugène Ionesco There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • Jim Crace There is no remedy for death--or birth--except to hug the spaces in between. Live loud. Live wide. Live tall.
    Jim Crace
    English writer and novelist (1946 - )
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  • Anita Roddick There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do it.
    Anita Roddick
    British businesswoman and human rights activist (1942 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Henry van Dyke There is only one way to get ready for immortality, and that is to love this life and live it as bravely and faithfully and cheerfully as we can.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Mother Teresa There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Billy Crudup There's exceptional work being done on television. Some of our great writers are writing for television. When you have things to choose from, you typically go after the writing - unless you're going after the money. There are fewer opportunities in film to make money with good writing, unless you're an action hero.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Ben Folds There's never gonna be a moment of truth for you
    While the world is watching
    All you need is the thing you forgotten
    And that's to learn to live with what you are.
    Lyrics Learn to Live with What You Are, Supersunnyspeedgr
    Ben Folds
    American singer-songwriter, musician and composer (1966 - )
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  • Molière There's nothing quite like tobacco: it's the passion of decent folk, and whoever lives without tobacco doesn't deserve to live.
    Molière
    French playwright (ps. by J. B. Poquelin) (1622 - 1673)
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  • Arthur Henderson Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Abigail Adams These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are formed.... Great necessities call out great virtues.
    Letter to John Quincy Adams, 19 January 1780
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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