Quotes with much-maligned

Quotes 1481 till 1500 of 1944.

  • Arthur Miller The theater is so endlessly fascinating because it's so accidental. It's so much like life.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Samuel Butler The thief. Once committed beyond a certain point he should not worry himself too much about not being a thief any more. Thieving is God's message to him. Let him try and be a good thief.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Sigmund Freud The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Brenda Ueland The tragedy of bold, forthright, industrious people is that they act so continuously without much thinking, that it becomes dry and empty.
    Brenda Ueland
    American journalist, editor, and teacher
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  • Thomas Carlyle The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Benjamin E. Mays The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • Ian McEwan The trouble with being a daydreamer who doesn’t say much is that the teachers at school, especially those who don’t know you very well, are likely to think you’re rather stupid. Or, if not stupid, then dull. No one can see the amazing things that are going on in your head.
    Ian McEwan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley The trouble with fiction, said John Rivers, is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • William Howard Taft The trouble with me is that I like to talk too much.
    William Howard Taft
    American politician, judge and President of the United States (1857 - 1930)
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  • Josh Billings The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Igor Stravinsky The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music; they should be taught to love it instead.
    Igor Stravinsky
    Russian composer (1882 - 1971)
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  • Josh Billings The trouble with people is not that they don't know but that they know so much that ain't so.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Harlan Miller The trouble with worrying so much about your security in the future is that you feel so insecure in the present.
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  • Ban Ki-moon The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • John Holt The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don't know what to do.
    John Holt
    American author and educator (1923 - 1985)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Francis Beaumont The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Carolyn Murphy The turnover with models - I cannot keep up. And in my day, we had so much personality. We probably caused a lot more trouble, but it was fun.
    Carolyn Murphy
    American model and actress (1974 - )
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  • F. L. Lucan The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn, tired of common sense and civilization.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • William Somerset Maugham The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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