Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 9421 till 9440 of 10439.

  • Bernhard Schlink What I really like about law is that it's not an endless discourse like history or philosophy. In law, there comes a point where problems have to be solved, and cases decided.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Camille Paglia What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization but an international conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.
    Source: Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bernie S. Siegel What I try to get physically healthy people to understand is that they're going to die someday. There is no way out. And dying isn't failure, but not living is, so make use of your time. Don't keeping waiting.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Brendan Gleeson What I voice, I voice though my art, if that's not too vainglorious a word. But I don't think it is.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Anita Hill What I wanted was for everyone listening to understand that these things mattered - not necessarily for me, but in this particular forum they mattered in terms of whether of not we were getting a person who should sit on the Supreme Court.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Abbe Pierre What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
    Abbe Pierre
    French Catholic priest (born Henri Grous) (1912 - 2007)
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  • Carrie Fisher What I wrote all the time when I was a kid - I don't want to call it 'poetry,' because it wasn't poetry. I was not that kind of a writer. I was a rhymer. I was a fan of Dorothy Parker's, so maybe I wrote poetry to that extent, but my main focus was the humor of it, and word construction, and the slant. Your words, it's a very powerful experience.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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  • Stephen Hawking What I'd really like to control is not machines, but people.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Laffer What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.
    Arthur Laffer
    American economist and author (1940 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson What I've found, and what Scripture tells us, is that your faith is not something on the side, something you carry with you - it is inherently who you are.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Bonnie Blair What I've learned from my own journey, and from my family's experience with cancer, is how important it is to stay positive and move forward. Not every day is going to be perfect; that's life. But staying positive is going to get you to the next day.
    Bonnie Blair
    American athlete and speed skater (1964 - )
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  • Walter Bagehot What impresses men is not mind, but the result of mind.
    Walter Bagehot
    English economist (1826 - 1877)
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  • Ayn Rand What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga What is a lie? It is to say what is real is not real. It is to deny the existence of what exists.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Mahatma Gandhi What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Pearl S. Buck What is a neglected child? He is a child not planned for, not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Joseph Conrad What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not been discovered.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Blake What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride!
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Oliver Cromwell What is all our histories, but God showing himself, shaking and trampling on everything that he has not planted.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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