Quotes with not-so-funny

Quotes 6181 till 6200 of 10331.

  • Carlos Gershenson People fail to achieve goals not because of lack of abilities, but because of lack of determination. (any ability can be learned).
    Chorninky Notes
    Carlos Gershenson
    Mexican author and academic (1978 - )
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  • Ezra Pound People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Carly Fiorina People have decided that career politicians may be part of the problem, not part of the solution.
    Carly Fiorina
    American businesswoman and political (1954 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy People have not been horrified by war to a sufficient extent... War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige as the warrior does today.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Maria Mitchell People have to learn sometimes not only how much the heart, but how much the head, can bear.
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  • Antonia Fraser People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.
    Antonia Fraser
    British author of history, novels, biographies and detective (1932 - )
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  • Carol Burnett People invite me to dinner not because I cook, but because I like to clean up. I get immediate gratification from Windex. Yes, I do windows.
    Carol Burnett
    American actress, comedian, singer, and writer (1933 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun People just want to hear some common sense... and I bring to bear the experience in local government and state government and national government - I was the first woman in history on the Senate Finance Committee - not to mention the diplomatic international experience.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Anna Held People look at me and look, but I do not care.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • David Mamet People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
    David Mamet
    American Playwright (1947 - )
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  • Martin Luther People must have righteous principals in the first, and then they will not fail to perform virtuous actions.
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  • A. P. Herbert People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament.
    A. P. Herbert
    English humorist, novelist and playwright (1890 - 1971)
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  • William Hazlitt People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Hicks People often ask me where I stand politically. It's not that I disagree with Bush's economic policy or his foreign policy, it's that I believe he was a child of Satan sent here to destroy the planet Earth. Little to the left.
    Shock and Awe
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Thomas Szasz People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something that one finds. It is something one creates.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Richard Nixon People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Robin Williams People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.
    Rolling Stone Interview, 1988
    Robin Williams
    American stand-up comedian and actor (1951 - 2014)
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  • Carl Hiaasen People say sometimes, gosh, that was brave of you to write such-and-such last week. 'Brave?' What do they mean 'brave?' It's right! How could you not write it?
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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