Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3601 till 3620 of 12035.

  • Busy Philipps I have great ideas, but the follow through is always really difficult for me. As my kid gets a little bit older, if I feel like I have a little bit more time on my hands, I'd like to get more into developing ideas and writing things.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln I have great respect for the #semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Lord George Byron I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world - not much remembered when the ball is over.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Wycherley I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
    Source: Speech in House of Lords, 24 May 1965
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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  • Charles Dickens I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don't trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Hermann Hesse I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • François Rabelais I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.
    François Rabelais
    French writer (1483 - 1553)
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  • Alice Walker I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Nelson Mandela I have learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. A brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
    Source: Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
    Nelson Mandela
    South African anti-apartheid revolutionary and political leader (1918 - 2013)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes, or of appearing naive.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Albert Einstein I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • William Shakespeare I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Umberto Eco I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Calvin Coolidge I have never been hurt by what I have not said.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Astrid Lindgren I have never experienced being madly in love the way most people seem to have been, although it is not something I would miss. Instead I have had an enormous ability to love my children and my grandchildren and my great grandchildren.
    Astrid Lindgren
    Swedish children's book and novelist (1907 - 2002)
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  • Anna Held I have never known the time when I did not wear stays. My stays are part of me.
    Anna Held
    Polish-born stage performer and singer (1872 - 1918)
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  • Epicurus I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not know.
    Epicurus
    Greek Philosopher (341 - 270)
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  • Edmund Burke I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Anthony Trollope I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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