Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 10331.

  • Groucho Marx I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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  • Anais Nin I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Bea Arthur I... was not too happy to suddenly take on this public role thrust upon me. They just assumed I was the Joan of Arc of the women's movement. And I wasn't at all. It put a lot of unnecessary pressure on me.
    Bea Arthur
    American actress and comedian (1922 - 2009)
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  • Emily Post Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Carl Schurz Ideals are like stars; you will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them you will reach your destiny.
    Address, Faneuil Hall, Boston (18 April 1859)
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Anna Quindlen Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • John Selden Idolatry is in a man's own thought, not in the opinion of another.
    John Selden
    British Jurist, Statesman (1584 - 1654)
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  • Horace If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Bill James If a candidate for office starts talking about thinning the deer population or investing in barriers to reduce the number of deer on the highways, the other side will probably just ignore him, because they're not going to know what to say about it. But there is a chance that the issue will resonate with voters in an unexpected way.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein If a company has acted badly, people want to punish it - not in order to deter future misconduct, but simply because they're outraged. And the more outraged they are, the more punishment they want to inflict.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Benny Goodman If a guy's got it, let him give it. I'm selling music, not prejudice.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Brody Jenner If a guy's talking to you at a club and you're having a long conversation, and then one of your friends comes up and he automatically devotes his attention to her, that's always a sign to look for. They're not always just doing it 'cause they're being 'friendly.' They want to look for somebody new.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Frank Moore Colby If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.
    Frank Moore Colby
    American Editor, Essayist (1865 - 1925)
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  • Marcel Proust If a little dreaming is dangerous, the cure for it is not to dream less but to dream more, to dream all the time.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Austan Goolsbee If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Seneca If a man does not know what port he is steering for, no wind is favorable to him.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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