Quotes with not-so-fun

Quotes 1841 till 1860 of 10439.

  • John Keats Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
    John Keats
    English poet (1795 - 1821)
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  • Alfred de Vigny Do you not see with your own eyes the chrysalis fact assume by degrees the wings of fiction?
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Auberon Herbert Do you not see, first, that - as a mental abstract - physical force is directly opposed to morality; and secondly, that it practically drives out of existence the moral forces?
    Auberon Herbert
    British writer, theorist, philosopher
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  • Carl Sagan Do you understand what's going on?
    Not at all, he shouted back. I can almost prove this can't be happening.
    Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 19 (p. 330)
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Augustus William Hare Do you wish to find out a person's weak points? Note the failings he has the quickest eye for in others. They may not be the very failings he is himself conscious of; but they will be their next-door neighbors. No man keeps such a jealous lookout as a rival.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • William Saroyan Doctors don't know everything really. They understand matter, not spirit. And you and I live in spirit.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Adolf Loos Does it follow that the house has nothing in common with art and is architecture not to be included in the arts? Only a very small part of architecture belongs to art: the tomb and the monument. Everything else that fulfils a function is to be excluded from the domain of art.
    Adolf Loos
    Austrian and Czechoslovak architect (1870 - 1933)
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  • Berenice Abbott Does not the very word 'creative' mean to build, to initiate, to give out, to act - rather than to be acted upon, to be subjective? Living photography is positive in its approach, it sings a song of life - not death.
    Source: Berenice Abbott, photographer: a modern vision : a selection of photographs and essays
    Berenice Abbott
    American photographer (1898 - 1991)
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  • E. M. Cioran Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Arnold Bennett Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Bertrand Russell Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.
    Source: Unpopular Essays
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Agatha Christie Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.
    Agatha Christie
    British writer (1890 - 1976)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Alec Baldwin Doing these parts is not fun. It's challenging, but no fun. It's creepy. I would rather play the guy that throws the touchdown pass and gets carried off the field.
    Alec Baldwin
    American actor, writer, producer and comedian (1958 - )
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  • Bill Hybels Don't ask God to bless junk food and miraculously transform it so that it has nutritional value. That's not how God works.
    Source: Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • H. Stanley Judd Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.
    H. Stanley Judd
    American author
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  • Madonna Don't be fooled, not much has changed - certainly not for women. We still live in a very sexist society that wants to limit people.
    Source: Cosmopolitan, May 2015
    Madonna
    American musician, singer and actress (1958 - )
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  • Golda Meir Don't be humble, you're not that great.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Arthur Miller Don't be seduced into thinking that that which does not make a profit is without value.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Golda Meir Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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