Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 1461 till 1480 of 10439.

  • Arianna Huffington But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children.
    Arianna Huffington
    Greek-American author, syndicated columnist, and businesswoman (1950 - )
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  • John Maynard Keynes But, soon or late, it is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
    Source: The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936) ch. 24
    John Maynard Keynes
    British economist (1883 - 1946)
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  • Buddy Rich But, when you have to resort to turntables, trick lights, flashing lights, fire and all that, you're actually saying, I need this because what I do is not all that together.
    Buddy Rich
    American jazz drummer and bandleader (1917 - 1987)
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  • Camille Paglia Butchery is not the point of vampirism. Sex - domination and submission - is.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Lord Chesterfield Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Barbara Corcoran Buy with your heart, not your head. You can look at all the aspects that make a purchase practical, but that kind of thinking makes it an investment rather than a home.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • Burt Rutan By 1931, after a few years' experience of flying scheduled airlines, those planes were operating at roughly 600 times the safety of the space shuttle. I look at safety not in terms of fatalities per passenger-mile, but when you get in and close the door, what is the risk of dying on this flight?
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Brad Feld By 2002, I realized that what was classically called a rollup strategy was not generally effective, at least not for me.
    Brad Feld
    American entrepreneur, and author
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Nikos Kazantzakis By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.
    Nikos Kazantzakis
    Greek writer (1883 - 1957)
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  • Bruno Walter By concentrating on precision, one arrives at technique, but by concentrating on technique one does not arrive at precision.
    Bruno Walter
     
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  • Mark Twain By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again - and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • St. Thomas Aquinas By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
    St. Thomas Aquinas
    Italian philosopher and theologian (1225 - 1274)
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  • George Santayana By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Albert Ellis By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Mandrell By our Heavenly Father and only because of God, only because of God. We're like other couples. We do not get along perfectly; we do not go without arguments and, as I call them, fights, and heartache and pain and hurting each other. But a marriage is three of us.
    Barbara Mandrell
    American country music singer, musician, and actress (1948 - )
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  • George Orwell By revolution we become more ourselves, not less.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Bhagat Singh By Revolution, we mean the ultimate establishment of an order of society which may not be threatened by such breakdown, and in which the sovereignty of the proletariat should be recognized and a world federation should redeem humanity from the bondage of capitalism and misery of imperial wars.
    Source: As quoted in Bhagat Singh and His Ideology
    Bhagat Singh
    Indian socialist revolutionary (1907 - 1931)
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