Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 2981 till 3000 of 10331.

  • Saadi I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Bruce Lee I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Wyndham Lewis I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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  • Edmond de Goncourt I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren’t aware how much it carried me through.
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
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  • Bryan Fuller I felt, selfishly, that if there was going to be a TV show about 'Hannibal Lecter' whether I was going to be involved or not, I'd rather be involved. I wanted to make sure it was something I wanted to watch.
    Bryan Fuller
    American television writer and producer (1969 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt I figure that that has a ten year cycle. At the end of that ten years, I began to get worried that I would run into what is known as the writer's block, the feeling of not being able to do these things.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Stuart Chase I find it difficult to believe that words have no meaning in themselves, hard as I try. Habits of a lifetime are not lightly thrown aside.
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  • Samuel Pepys I find my wife hath something in her gizzard, that only waits an opportunity of being provoked to bring up; but I will not, for my content-sake, give it.
    Samuel Pepys
    English administrator of the navy and Member of Parliament (1633 - 1703)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Bryan Batt I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Anne Tyler I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • Samuel Johnson I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert Ellis I get people to truly accept themselves unconditionally, whether or not their therapist or anyone loves them.
    Albert Ellis
    American psychologist (1913 - 2007)
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  • Thomas Carlyle I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing - a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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