Quotes with nine-and-a-half

Quotes 10541 till 10560 of 25371.

  • Audre Lorde It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Bob Corker It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
    Bob Corker
    American businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Bo Bennett It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
    Original: Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
    Source: Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Hannah More It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Anna Julia Cooper It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.
    Anna Julia Cooper
    American author, activist and sociologist (1858 - 1964)
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  • Barry Gibb It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
    Barry Gibb
    British-American musician and singer-songwriter (1946 - )
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  • Elizabeth Stuart Phelps It is not the straining for great things that is most effective; it is the doing the little things, the common duties, a little better and better.
    Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
    American author, feminist and intellectual (1844 - 1911)
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  • Julius Caesar It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Joseph A. Schumpeter It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Witness the most famous of all trials. Pilate was, from the standpoint of the Jews, certainly the representative of autocracy. Yet he tried to protect freedom. And he yielded to a democracy.
    Joseph A. Schumpeter
    Austrian-American economist (1883 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Johnson It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Somerset Maugham It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson It is not true that the English invented cricket as a way of making all other human endeavours look interesting and lively; that was merely an unintended side effect. I don't wish to denigrate a sport that is enjoyed by millions, some of them awake and facing the right way, but it is an odd game.
    Source: In a Sunburned Country (US) / Down Under (UK) (2000)
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • S. I. Hayakawa It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
    S. I. Hayakawa
    Canada-American Senator (1902 - 1992)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Ching Ning Chu It is not whether your words or actions are tough or gentle; it is the spirit behind your actions and words that announces your inner state.
    Ching Ning Chu
    Chinese-American business consultant
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