Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 10439.

  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Stuart Mill But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • George Eliot But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sagan But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Condon But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Anita Hill But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Ezra Pound But the one thing you should. not do is to suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Bob Schieffer But the reporter has the responsibility to determine, number one, whether that is true, and number two, to make a judgment as to whether it's in the public interest and whether or not it should be part of the debate.
    Bob Schieffer
    American television journalist (1937 - )
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  • Audre Lorde But the true feminist deals out of a lesbian consciousness whether or not she ever sleeps with women.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • C. S. Lewis But then again of course I know perfectly well that He can't be used as a road. If you're approaching Him not as the goal but as a road, not as the end but as a means, you're not really approaching Him at all.
    Source: A Grief Observed (1961)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Bjorn Lomborg But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Benjamin Tucker But this is not to say that the society which inflicts capital punishment commits murder.
    Benjamin Tucker
    American anarchist and socialist (1854 - 1939)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Bainbridge Colby But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without regard to its consequences to the well being, security, or honor of the country.
    Bainbridge Colby
    American politician and attorney (1869 - 1950)
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  • Anselm Kiefer But we should also not forget the difference between what first motivated me and the work that is the result.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Barney Frank But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Edmund Burke But when the leaders choose to make themselves bidders at an auction of popularity, their talents, in the construction of the state, will be of no service. They will become flatterers instead of legislators, the instruments, not the guides of the people.
    Source: Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Jonathan Swift But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into a better before I was called into the best, and not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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