Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 5741 till 5760 of 10439.

  • Edward Shepherd Mead Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers.
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  • Boris Johnson Not even Mr Blair has been able to erode the unions conviction that we all have a right to a minimum wage… Both the minimum wage and the Social Charter would palpably destroy jobs.
    Source: Lend Me Your Ears p387
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • Thomas Wolfe Not even the most powerful organs of the press, including Time, Newsweek, and The New York Times, can discover a new artist or certify his work and make it stick. They can only bring you the scores.
    Thomas Wolfe
    American writer and journalist (1900 - 1938)
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  • Salman Rushdie Not even the visionary or mystical experience ever lasts very long. It is for art to capture that experience, to offer it to, in the case of literature, its readers; to be, for a secular, materialist culture, some sort of replacement for what the love of god offers in the world of faith.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Pindar Not every truth is the better for showing its face undisguised; and often silence is the wisest thing for a man to heed.
    Pindar
    Ancient Greek lyric poet from Thebes (522 - 443)
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  • Hunter S. Thompson Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is.
    Hunter S. Thompson
    American journalist (1937 - 2005)
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  • Ansel Adams Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.
    Ansel Adams
    American landscape photographer and environmentalist (1902 - 1984)
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  • André Gide Not everyone can be an orphan.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into a realm beyond words.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Albert Einstein Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Albert Einstein Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • James Baldwin Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • James Russell Lowell Not failure, but low aim, is crime.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Lois Horowitz Not having the information you need when you need it leaves you wanting. Not knowing where to look for that information leaves you powerless. In a society where information is king, none of us can afford that.
    Lois Horowitz
     
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Seneca Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Erich Fromm Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
    Erich Fromm
    German - American philosopher and psychologist (1900 - 1980)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
    Source: Judicial opinions Meinhard v. Salmon, 249 N.Y. 458, 164 N.E. 545 (N.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Seneca Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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