Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 12035.

  • Barry Cornwall Her voice is soft; not shrill and like the lark's, but tenderer, graver, almost hoarse at times! As though the earnestness of love prevailed and quelled all shriller music.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • A. E. Housman Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • B. W. Powe Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • C. A. R. Hoare Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors.
    Hints on Programming Language Design, December 1973
    C. A. R. Hoare
    British computer scientist
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Here is God's purpose - for God, to me, it seems, is a verb not a noun, proper or improper.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ''This is a misfortune'' but ''To bear this worthily is good fortune.''
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • William Feather Here is the secret of inspiration: Tell yourself that thousands and tens of thousands of people, not very intelligent and certainly no more intelligent than the rest of us, have mastered problems as difficult as those that now baffle you.
    William Feather
    American writer, businessman (1889 - 1981)
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  • Callimachus Here sleeps Saon, of Acanthus, son of Dicon, a holy sleep: say not that the good die.
    Epigrams Epigram 10; translation from J. Banks (ed.) The Wo
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Ben Horowitz Here's Kanye, the great musical genius of his generation in hip hop, but, like, society really can't even deal with him because he's always saying something that people go, 'Oh, I can't believe Kanye said that. I can't believe he did that.'
    Ben Horowitz
    American businessman, investor, blogger, and author (1966 - )
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  • Ben Feldman Here's the thing about Jews in Hollywood. Not to stereotype, but the Jews I know here are the funniest, most self-deprecating people I know. And it's rare to find a Jew that is actually offended by comedy about them.
    Ben Feldman
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • Brit Marling Here's the thing that I think about life - if you manage to get into a space where you don't need that much, where the overhead of your life is not that great and you're pretty happy and relaxed without that much stuff, you are really liberated because you never have to say yes to something because you want another refrigerator or car!
    Brit Marling
    American actress and screenwriter (1982 - )
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  • Edward Dahlberg Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Abel Hermant Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
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  • Calvin Coolidge Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Angela Merkel Herr Schroder has conducted two electoral campaigns, and he is doing it again now, by not telling people what is really necessary. He keeps avoiding the difficult and uncomfortable issues, those that imply changes and therefore provoke discussions.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Bob Dylan Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
    I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
    Hey, Mr. Tambourine Man, play a song for me.
    In the jingle-jangle morning, I'll come following you.
    Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
    Bob Dylan
    American musician (1941 - )
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  • Aaron Hill Hide not thy tears; weep boldly, and be proud to give the flowing virtue manly way; it is nature's mark to know an honest heart by.
    Aaron Hill
    English dramatist and writer (1685 - 1750)
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