Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3521 till 3540 of 12035.

  • George Bernard Shaw I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Christina Rossetti I dream of you to wake; would that I might Dream of you and not wake but slumber on...
    Christina Rossetti
    British poet (1830 - 1894)
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  • Burt Rutan I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.
    Burt Rutan
    American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur (1943 - )
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  • William Shakespeare I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bruce Sutter I enjoy being out with the fans, I enjoy talking baseball, but to get up and tell my life story... I'm not comfortable doing that.
    Bruce Sutter
    American professional baseball pitcher (1953 - )
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  • Alan Paton I envision someday a great, peaceful South Africa in which the world will take pride, a nation in which each of many different groups will be making its own creative contribution.
    Alan Paton
    South African author and anti-apartheid activist (1903 - 1988)
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  • Plato I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • William Penn I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
    William Penn
    English religious leader, founder of Pennsylvania (1644 - 1718)
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  • Amy Winehouse I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations.
    Amy Winehouse
    English singer and songwriter (1983 - 2011)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Saadi I fear God and next to God I mostly fear them that fear him not.
    Saadi
    Persian poet and literary of the medieval period (1200 - 1292)
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  • Bruce Lee I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.
    Bruce Lee
    Chinese-American Actor, Director, Author, Martial Artist (1940 - 1973)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Wyndham Lewis I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum.
    Wyndham Lewis
    British painter and author (1882 - 1957)
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  • Walter Chrysler I feel sorry for the person who can't get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile.
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  • Edmond de Goncourt I feel sure that coups d'état would go much better if there were seats, boxes, and stalls so that one could see what was happening and not miss anything.
    Edmond de Goncourt
    French writer and critic (1822 - 1896)
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  • Alain de Botton I feel that the great challenge of our time is the communication of ideas.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I felt compelled to perform - to do my engagements and not let people down. And they supported me, although they weren’t aware how much it carried me through.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Burton Rascoe I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
    Source: Contemporary Reminiscences in Arts & Decoration, Vol. 26 (1927)
    Burton Rascoe
     
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  • J. G. Ballard I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
    J. G. Ballard
    British author (1930 - 2009)
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