Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3221 till 3240 of 12035.

  • Anita Desai I aim to tell the truth about any subject, not a romance or fantasy, not avoid the truth.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Umberto Eco I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Caitlyn Marie Jenner I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.
    Caitlyn Marie Jenner
    American television personality and decathlete (born Bruce Jenner)
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  • V.S. Naipaul I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands.
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
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  • Bryan Batt I always wanted to be an actor, but I always loved design, and growing up in New Orleans there was such great style, great architecture. I would decorate my little apartment in New York over and over again, because it only had a couple of rooms. And I did it for friends and family on the side just for fun.
    Bryan Batt
    American actor (1963 - )
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  • Mark Twain I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct - nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Michel Faber I am a fallen woman, but I assure you: I did not fall. I was pushed.
    Source: Lelieblank, scharlaken rood (2002)
    Michel Faber
    Dutch-Scottish English-language writer (1960 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Stephen Leacock I am a great believer in luck and the harder I work the more of it I have.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep the people from vice.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Bishop Desmond Tutu I am a leader by default, only because nature does not allow a vacuum.
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  • Josh Billings I am a poor man, but I have this consolation: I am poor by accident, not by design.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Jeanette Winterson I am a writer who happens to love women. I am not a lesbian who happens to write.
    Source:  (2004)
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Thomas Hobbes I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Richard Dawkins I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • William Wordsworth I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Winston Churchill I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Clarence Darrow I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
    Clarence Darrow
    American Lawyer (1857 - 1938)
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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