Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 2701 till 2720 of 10439.

  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Human being is both being in the world and living in the world. Living involves responsible understanding of one's role in relation to all other beings. For living is not being in itself, but living of the world, affecting, exploiting, consuming, comprehending, deriving, depriving.
    Source: Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel in order to be tough.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Primo Levi Human memory is a marvelous but fallacious instrument. The memories which lie within us are not carved in stone; not only do they tend to become erased as the years go by, but often they change, or even increase by incorporating extraneous features.
    Primo Levi
    Italian chemist, author (1919 - 1987)
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  • Thomas Paine Human nature is not of itself vicious.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Amelia E. Barr Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
    Amelia E. Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Barbara Block Human technology has made it to Mars. We are transmitting gorgeous pictures from it. Yet we have not explored our own planet. Two-thirds of it is covered with oceans that are still mysterious places.
    Barbara Block
     
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  • Tom Robbins Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Branford Marsalis Humans are imperfect. That's one of the reasons that classical and jazz are in trouble. We're on the quest for the perfect performance and every note has to be right. Man, every note is not right in life.
    Branford Marsalis
    American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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  • Margaret Halsey Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
    Margaret Halsey
    American writer
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  • Allen Klein Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.
    Allen Klein
    American businessman, music publisher (1931 - 2009)
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  • James Thurber Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.
    James Thurber
    American cartoonist (1894 - 1961)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Leo Rosten Humor is, I think, the sublets and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers
    Leo Rosten
    Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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  • Mark Twain Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Billy Collins Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. It's a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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  • Bernard Goldberg Hurricanes are dangerous things, and they're no fun to go through. And if you come out of it in one piece and your house comes out of in one piece, it's no fun living with no electricity for a day or a week, a month, whatever it is. And I speak, unfortunately, from personal experience on that matter.
    Bernard Goldberg
    American author and journalist (1945 - )
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hurt a fly! He would not for the world: he's pitiful to flies even. ''Sing,'' says he, ''and tease me still, if that's your way, poor insect.''
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Mary Buckley Husbands are awkward things to deal with; even keeping them in hot water will not make them tender.
    Mary Buckley
     
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