Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 3901 till 3920 of 12035.

  • Angela Merkel I will not let anyone tell me we must spend more money. This crisis did not come about because we issued too little money but because we created economic growth with too much money and it was not sustainable growth.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Enoch Powell I will not surrender responsibility for my life and my actions.
    Enoch Powell
    British politician and classicist (1912 - 1998)
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  • David Foster Wallace I will probably write an hour a day and spend eight hours a day biting my knuckle and worrying about not writing.
    David Foster Wallace
    American author (1962 - 2008)
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  • Ronald Reagan I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand.
    Ronald Reagan
    American politician and actor (1911 - 2004)
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  • Aeschylus I willingly speak to those who know, but for those who do not know I forget.
    Aeschylus
    Greek dramatist (525 - 456)
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  • J. R. Tolkien I wish life was not so short, he thought. languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.
    J. R. Tolkien
     
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  • Abigail Adams I wish most sincerely there was not a slave in this province. It always appeared a most iniquitous scheme to me - to fight ourselves for what we are daily robbing and plundering from those who have as good a right to freedom as we have.
    Source: Letter to John Adams (24 September 1774)
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I wish you would moderate that fondness you have for your children. I do not mean you should abate any part of your care, or not do your duty to them in its utmost extent, but I would have you early prepare yourself for disappointments, which are heavy in proportion to their being surprising.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Charlotte Brontë I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman.
    Charlotte Brontë
    British Novelist (1816 - 1855)
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  • Kim Basinger I work in a strange business, and trust is a word that's not even in the vocabulary.
    Kim Basinger
     
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  • Buchi Emecheta I work toward the liberation of women, but I'm not feminist. I'm just a woman.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Anne Stevenson I work very hard on all my poems, but most of the work consists of trying not to sound as if I had worked. I try to make them sound as natural as possible, but within a quite strict form, which to my ears has a lot to do with musical rhythm and sound.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would advise you Sir, to study algebra, if you are not already an adept in it: your head would be less muddy, and you will leave off tormenting your neighbors about paper and packthread, while we all live together in a world that is bursting with sin and sorrow.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I would be a billionaire if I was looking to be a selfish boss. That's not me.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Johnson I would be loath to speak ill of any person who I do not know deserves it, but I am afraid he is an attorney.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Brooke Shields I would have thought that I would have become one of those parents - just because it's my nature to be such a perfectionist - that anything falling short, I would have seen as a failure. But something has happened to me over the past few years - it's not Zen, believe me, I'm not at all Zen - but I'm so appreciative of even the chaos.
    Brooke Shields
    American actress and model (1965 - )
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  • Francis Bacon I would live to study, and not study to live.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Bill Bailey I would never condone the burning of a Dan Brown novel, much though I loathe and detest his work. Well, I say work, you know, words, randomly arranged to form millions of dollars... I'm not bitter at all...
    Source: Dandelion Mind
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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