Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 1541 till 1560 of 10439.

  • Lord Chesterfield Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Arthur Keith Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
    Arthur Keith
    Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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  • Wendell Phillips Christianity is a battle not a dream.
    Wendell Phillips
    American Reformer, Orator (1811 - 1884)
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  • William Blake Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Richard Halverson Christianity is either relevant all the time or useless anytime. It is not just a phase of life; it is life itself.
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  • C. S. Lewis Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Winston Churchill Christmas is a season not only of rejoicing but of reflection.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind.
    Source: Speech 25 december 1927
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Christmas is not a time or a season but a state of mind. To cherish peace and good will, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Charles de Gaulle Church is the only place where someone speaks to me and I do not have to answer back.
    Charles de Gaulle
    French statesman (1890 - 1970)
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  • Sigmund Freud Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • C. P. Snow Civilization is hideously fragile... there's not much between us and the Horrors underneath, just about a coat of varnish.
    Source: The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Oscar Wilde Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Arnold Toynbee Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • A. E. Housman Clay lies still, but blood's a rover;
    Breath's a ware that will not keep.
    Up, lad: when the journey's over
    There'll be time enough to sleep.
    Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 4 (Reveille), st. 6
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Frank Moore Colby Clever people seem not to feel the natural pleasure of bewilderment, and are always answering questions when the chief relish of a life is to go on asking them.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change does not respect border; it does not respect who you are - rich and poor, small and big. Therefore, this is what we call 'global challenges,' which require global solidarity.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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