Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 3921 till 3940 of 10331.

  • Barack Obama In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role.
    Independent Magazine (March 2007)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Bertrand Russell In America everybody is of opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Sinclair Lewis In America most of us are still afraid of any literature which is not a glorification of everything American, a glorification of our faults as well as our virtues.
    Lezing bij aanvaarden Nobelprijs 12-12-1930
    Sinclair Lewis
    American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (1885 - 1951)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed of.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Susan Sontag In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Katchor In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.
    Ben Katchor
    American cartoonist and illustrator (1951 - )
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn Maloney In America, we have long stood by the principle that the protections of the law are not meant just for some.
    Carolyn Maloney
    American politician (1946 - )
    - +
     0
  • Sir J. Walter Alexander Raleigh In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
    - +
     0
  • Blake Farenthold In an urban area, you're not going to be an hour away from another post office.
    Blake Farenthold
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
    - +
     0
  • Terry Pratchett In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this.
    Terry Pratchett
    English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works (1948 - 2015)
    - +
     0
  • Bill Kristol In any case, decisions on troop levels in the American system of government are not made by any general or set of generals but by the civilian leadership of the war effort.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
    - +
     0
  • Yevgeny Yevtushenko In any man who dies there dies with him, his first snow and kiss and fight. Not people die but worlds die in them.
    - +
     0
  • Blanche Lincoln In Arkansas alone, approximately three quarters of a million people are at risk of going hungry, and one in four children does not get enough to eat, so my goal is to bring awareness to this tragic issue.
    Blanche Lincoln
    American politician and lawyer (1960 - )
    - +
     0
  • Ray Kroc In business for yourself, not by yourself.
    Ray Kroc
    American businessman, founder McDonalds (1902 - 1984)
    - +
     0
  • Cam Newton In college, you had to worry about that math class or this exam that's coming up on Tuesday, but not in the professionals. You eat, sleep, and do everything related to your craft - and your craft is football. You can be at it from sunup to sundown.
    Cam Newton
    American football player (1989 - )
    - +
     0
  • Bobby Farrelly In comedy, though, it's good to get feedback from the audience about what they find funny.
    Bobby Farrelly
    American film director, screenwriter and producer (1958 - )
    - +
     0
  • Anne Hutchinson In considering found that the papists did not deny him to be come in the flesh, nor we did not deny him - who then was antichrist? Was the Turk antichrist only?
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
    - +
     0
  • Dean William R. Inge In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
    - +
     0
  • Albert Camus In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
    - +
     0
All not-so-funny famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 197)