Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 9221 till 9240 of 10439.

  • George Orwell We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Seneca We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Plutarch We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Cass Sunstein We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport or fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Mother Teresa We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Billie Joe Armstrong We pride ourselves on trying to put on the best show we can and we're not afraid to say that we happen to be the best live band in the world
    Source: Q Magazine interview,Nov 2010
    Billie Joe Armstrong
    American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, and actor (1972 - )
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  • Ann Macbeth We probably do not have a large enough industry here to ably support the independent filmmaker to move in and out. Much of the industry is based on full-time jobs here, institutionalised jobs.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Brit Marling We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're this age, that age, this is your job, this is not your job, everything is about getting boxed in.
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Chimamanda Adichie We raise girls to see each other as competitors—not for jobs or accomplishments, which in my opinion can be a good thing—but for the attention of men.
    Source: We moeten allemaal feminist zijn (2014)
    Chimamanda Adichie
    Nigerian poet (1977 - )
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  • William Nicholson We read to know that we are not alone.
    Source: Shadowlands (1993)
    William Nicholson
    British playwright, screenplay and novelist (1948 - )
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  • Thich Nhat Hanh We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.
    Thich Nhat Hanh
    Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist (1926 - )
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  • Asa Hutchinson We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.
    Asa Hutchinson
    American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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  • Barbara Cartland We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.
    Barbara Cartland
    English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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  • Victor Hugo We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Bill Cosby We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.
    Source: Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • Bruce McCulloch We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.
    Bruce McCulloch
    Canadian actor, comedian, writer (1961 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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