Quotes with no-one

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 5903.

  • Jean de la Bruyère If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Andreas Capellanus If out of all mankind one finds a single friend, he has found something more precious than any treasure, since there is nothing in the world so valuable that it can be compared to a real friend.
    Andreas Capellanus
    French writer (1150 - 1220)
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  • Vauvenargues If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
    Vauvenargues
    French philosopher (1715 - 1747)
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
    Vannevar Bush
     
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich If that's how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what's left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Brad Feld If the crisis lasts moments, rapid action is critical. But if it's simply the beginning of a broader issue, especially one where the root cause isn't known yet, the worst thing a leader can do is act immediately.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • Winston Churchill If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carl Karcher If the money we donate helps one child or can ease the pain of one parent, those funds are well spent.
    Carl Karcher
    American businessman (1917 - 2008)
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  • Andrew Johnson If the rabble were lopped off at one end and the aristocrats at the other, all would be well with the country.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Bhagavad Gita If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Ronald Reagan If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Andrew Grove If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
    Andrew Grove
    Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer and author (1936 - 2016)
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  • Thomas Jefferson If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • David Gemmell If there is one sound the follows the march of humanity, it is the scream.
    David Gemmell
    British author of heroic fantasy (1948 - 2006)
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  • Teena Booth If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
    Teena Booth
     
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  • George Orwell If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Cass Sunstein If there's a regulation that's saving 10,000 lives and costing one job, it's worth it.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Ben Gibbard If there's no one beside you
    When your soul embarks
    Then I'll follow you into the dark
    Source: Plans I Will Follow You Into The Dark
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Bernard Williams If there's one theme in all my work, it's about authenticity and self-expression. It's the idea that some things are, in some real sense, really you - or express what you and others aren't.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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