Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 9401 till 9420 of 10439.

  • Boris Pasternak What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
    Boris Pasternak
    Russian writer (1890 - 1960)
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  • Robert H. Schuller What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
    Robert H. Schuller
    American Christian televangelist, pastor, motivational speaker, and au (1926 - 2015)
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  • Archibald Macleish What happened at Hiroshima was not only that a scientific breakthrough had occurred and that a great part of the population of a city had been burned to death, but that the problem of the relation of the triumphs of modern science to the human purposes of man had been explicitly defined.
    Archibald Macleish
    American poet (1892 - 1982)
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  • Thaddeus Golas What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
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  • Margaret Oliphant What happiness is there which is not purchased with more or less of pain?
    Margaret Oliphant
    British writer, historian (1828 - 1897)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our great houses, whence a cruel contempt of our natural store is bred in them?
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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  • William Somerset Maugham What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo What has once been settled by a precedent will not be unsettled overnight, for certainty and uniformity are gains not lightly sacrificed. Above all is this true when honest men have shaped their conduct on the faith of the pronouncement.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Bob Barr What has to do with your ability to fall asleep is not caffeine. It's having a clean conscience. I have a clean conscience so I can drink all the caffeine I want.
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Collins, Kitty O'neill What I am looking for is a blessing not in disguise.
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  • Robert Browning What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Bennet Omalu What I did when I identified Mike Webster's thing, I showed it to other doctors. We all agreed that this was something new, but we had to give it a name. This was not dementia pugilistica. Maybe we could have called it dementia footballitica!
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • Bryce Dallas Howard What I do is not go outside. My hobby is that I write, so if I'm not acting or being a mom, I'm writing.
    Bryce Dallas Howard
    American actress and filmmaker (1981 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Annie Leibovitz What I end up shooting is the situation. I shoot the composition and my subject is going to help the composition or not.
    Annie Leibovitz
    American portrait photographer (1949 - )
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  • Ben Nicholson What I feel bad about is not having published very much in the last few years.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • Adam Arkin What I had to say was, in general, I'm not really a fan of any one genre of any kind of film.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Carla Hall What I love about 'The Chew' is that we have these celebrities come on, and you get to see them in a different light, cooking or enjoying food, when we usually don't see them in that setting. So it's a lot of fun for their fans to see them be normal people and having that commonality of food.
    Carla Hall
    American chef and television personality (1964 - )
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  • Bernard Cornwell What I mean by that is that the point of life, as I see it, is not to write books or scale mountains or sail oceans, but to achieve happiness, and preferably an unselfish happiness.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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