Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3301 till 3320 of 12035.

  • Johann Kaspar Lavater I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.
    Johann Kaspar Lavater
    Swiss theologist and mysticist (1741 - 1801)
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  • Winston Churchill I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Charles Dickens I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • John Mason Brown I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.
    John Mason Brown
    American drama critic and author (1900 - 1969)
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  • Winston Churchill I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barack Obama I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man.
    Source: Speech (1 June 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Albert J. Nock I am said to be difficult of acquaintance, unwilling to meet any one half way, and showing a social manner which is easy, not diffident, but formal and unresponsive, tending constantly to hold people off.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Alfred Hitchcock I am scared easily, here is a list of my adrenaline - production: 1: small children, 2: policemen, 3: high places, 4: that my next movie will not be as good as the last one.
    Alfred Hitchcock
    English moviedirector (1899 - 1980)
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  • Samuel Johnson I am sorry I have not learnt to play at cards. It is very useful in life: it generates kindness, and consolidates society.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Martha Washington I am still determined to be cheerful and happy, in whatever situation I may be; for I have also learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.
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  • David Herbert Lawrence I am sure no other civilization, not even the Romans, has showed such a vast proportion of ignominious and degraded nudity, and ugly, squalid dirty sex. Because no other civilization has driven sex into the underworld, and nudity to the W.C.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Muhammad Ali I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
    Muhammad Ali
    American Boxer (1942 - 2016)
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  • Amy Lowell I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.
    Amy Lowell
    American poet, criticus (1874 - 1925)
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  • Marilyn Monroe I am trying to find myself. Sometimes that's not easy.
    Marilyn Monroe
    American actress (1926 - 1962)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold I am who I choose to be. I always have been what I chose…though not always what I pleased.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Angelina Grimke I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Jim Valvano I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust em.
    Jim Valvano
    American college basketball player, coach, and broadcaster (1946 - 1993)
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  • St. Augustine of Hippo I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered,'' I am not He, but He made me.''
    St. Augustine of Hippo
    Roman African Christian theologian and philosopher (354 - 430)
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  • George Eliot I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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