Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 3721 till 3740 of 10439.

  • Beau Brummel If people turn to look at you on the street, you are not well dressed.
    Beau Brummel
     
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  • Samuel Johnson If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • John Keats If poetry comes not as naturally as leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Michel Foucault If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.
    Michel Foucault
    French essayist and philosopher (1926 - 1984)
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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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  • Seneca If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity is lodged in the soul, not in the flesh.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Vladimir Ilyich Lenin If Socialism can only be realized when the intellectual development of all the people permits it, then we shall not see Socialism for at least five hundred years.
    Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
    Russian revolutionary leader (1870 - 1924)
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  • Herman Melville If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how, then, with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books, should be forbid.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Paul Valery If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. nothing in the paper today , we sigh.
    Paul Valery
    French poet (1871 - 1945)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bryan Fuller If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • Billy Higgins If somebody would come and they're not playing music, they would encounter certain people on another level.
    Billy Higgins
    American jazz drummer (1936 - 2001)
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  • H. Ross Perot If someone is blessed as I am is not willing to clean out the barn, who will?
    H. Ross Perot
    American businessman & politician, founder EDS (1930 - 2019)
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  • Ziad K. Abdelnour If someone is going out of his way to ignore you, he is not ignoring you, he is obsessed by you.
    Source: Economic Warfare: Secrets of Wealth Creation in the Age of Welfare Politics
    Ziad K. Abdelnour
    American banker (1960 - )
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  • Elizabeth Taylor If someone's dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture, I'm certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.
    Elizabeth Taylor
    British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian (1932 - 2011)
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  • Bruce Oldfield If someone's got good, clean skin, with not too much make-up on, and good, clean hair that's bouncy, and the nails are clean and not overly done, then you can put anything on her and she's going to look good.
    Bruce Oldfield
    British fashion designer (1950 - )
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  • Carlisle Floyd If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • Norman Augustine If sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance.
    Norman Augustine
    American aerospace businessman (1935 - )
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test: though a different opinion prevails in this country.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Bruce Lipton If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn't. It's called the 'nocebo' effect.
    Bruce Lipton
    American developmental biologist (1944 - )
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