Quotes with not-self

Quotes 3341 till 3360 of 10786.

  • Lord George Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Wayne Gretzky I skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is.
    Wayne Gretzky
    Canadian ice hockey player and coach (1961 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Abraham Pais I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Audre Lorde I started writing because I had a need inside of me to create something that was not there.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Lord George Byron I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • A. N. Wilson I suppose if I'd got a brilliant first and done research I might still be a don today, but I hope not. People become dons because they are incapable of doing anything else in life.
    A. N. Wilson
    English writer and columnist (1950 - )
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  • Lord George Byron I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Asa Gray I take it for granted that you do not wish to hear an echo from the pulpit nor from the theological class-room.
    Asa Gray
    American botanist (1810 - 1888)
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  • Terence I take it to be a principle rule of life, not to be too much addicted to any one thing.
    Terence
    Roman writer of comedies (190 - 159)
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  • Antoine Fuqua I take them seriously but I try not to read them. I take them personally, that's why I don't read them. I think people are lying when they say they don't care, that's not true. I take them personally.
    Antoine Fuqua
    American film director and producer (1966 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne I tell the truth, not as much as I would like to, but as much as I dare. I dare more and more as I grow older.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Anita Diamant I tell writers to keep reading, reading, reading. Read widely and deeply. And I tell them not to give up even after getting rejection letters. And only write what you love.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Sri Sarada Devi I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, do not find fault with others. Rather learn to see your own faults. Learn to make the whole world your own. No one is a stranger, my child; this whole world is your own.
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  • Carl Sandburg I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Bruno Mars I tend to overthink things. I'm not the guy who screams 'This is a world smash!' when I finish a song.
    Bruno Mars
    American singer, songwriter, record producer and dancer (1985 - )
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  • Claude Lévi-Strauss I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact.
    Claude Lévi-Strauss
    French anthropologist (1908 - 2009)
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  • James Thomson I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop.
    James Thomson
    Scottish poet (1700 - 1748)
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