Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 10301 till 10320 of 10439.

  • Bertolt Brecht Do not rejoice in his defeat, you men. For though the world has stood up and stopped the bastard, the bitch that bore him is in heat again.
    Source: Referring to Arturo Ui (representing Adolf Hitler), in The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941)
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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  • Frank Zappa Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he needs the bones of the Elephant Man - and, until he tells us, it doesn't make too much difference whether or not he really is ''bad.''
    Frank Zappa
    American rock musician (1940 - 1993)
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  • Voltaire Doubt is not a pleasant mental state, but certainty is a ridiculous one.
    Voltaire
    French writer and philosopher (ps. of Fran ois Marie Arouet) (1694 - 1778)
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  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • William Shakespeare Every good servant does not all commands.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Denis Diderot Every man has his dignity. I'm willing to forget mine, but at my own discretion and not when someone else tells me to.
    Denis Diderot
    French philosopher (1713 - 1784)
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  • Pablo Picasso Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one's bath like a lump of sugar.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Gerda Lerner Everything that explains the world has in fact explained a world that does not exist, a world in which men are at the center of the human enterprise and women are at the margin ''helping'' them. Such a world does not exist - never has.
    Gerda Lerner
     
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Fatigue dulls the pain, but awakes enticing thoughts of death. So! that is the way in which you are tempted to overcome your loneliness - by making the ultimate escape from life. - No! It may be that death is to be your ultimate gift to life: it must not be an act of treachery against it.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Arthur Peacocke For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
    Arthur Peacocke
    English Anglican theologian and biochemist (1924 - 2006)
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  • Ambrose Bierce Genealogy. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.
    Ambrose Bierce
    American writer (1842 - 1914)
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  • Raymond Holliwell God does not require you to follow His leadings on blind trust. Behold the evidence of an invisible intelligence pervading everything, even your own mind and body.
    Raymond Holliwell
    American author
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  • Helen Keller God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
    Helen Keller
    American writer (1880 - 1968)
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  • Thomas Fuller He does not believe that does not live according to his belief .
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • Thomas Fuller He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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  • William Drummond He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; and he that dares not reason is a slave.
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  • Antonio Porchia He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.
    Antonio Porchia
    Argentinian poet (1885 - 1968)
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  • Simone Weil Humanism was not wrong in thinking that truth, beauty, liberty, and equality are of infinite value, but in thinking that man can get them for himself without grace.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Allen Tate I am not ridiculing verbal mechanisms, dreams, or repressions as origins of poetry; all three of them and more besides may have a great deal to do with it.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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