Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 4901 till 4920 of 12035.

  • Agnes Macphail It is a fact that all women contribute more to marriage than men; for the most part they have to change their place of living, their method of work, a great many women today changing their occupation entirely on marriage; and they must even change their name.
    Agnes Macphail
    Canadian politician (1890 - 1954)
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  • Don Herold It is a good thing that life is not as serious as it seems to a waiter.
    Don Herold
    American humorist, writer, illustrator, and cartoonist (1889 - 1966)
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  • Benjamin Franklin It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • George Santayana It is a great advantage for a system of philosophy to be substantially true.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Anthony de Mello It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
    Anthony de Mello
    Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (1931 - 1987)
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  • Baltasar Gracián It is a great piece of skill to know how to guide your luck even while waiting for it.
    Baltasar Gracián
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is a great pity when the one who should be the head figure is a mere figure head.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • William Shakespeare It is a kind of good deed to say well; and yet words are not deeds.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson It is a lesson which all history teaches wise men, to put trust in ideas, and not in circumstances.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander the Great It is a lovely thing to live with courage, and to die leaving behind everlasting renown.
    Alexander the Great
    Macedonian king (352 - 323)
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  • Buddha It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • John Bradshaw It is a mark of soulfulness to be present in the here and now. When we are present, we are not fabricating inner movies. We are seeing what is before us.
    John Bradshaw
    American educator, counselor, motivational speaker, and author (1933 - 2016)
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  • Dwight L. Moody It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Charles Dickens It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Cyril Connolly It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Arnold Toynbee It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
    Arnold Toynbee
    British economic historian and social reformer (1852 - 1883)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg It is a question whether, when we break a murderer on the wheel, we do not fall into the error a child makes when it hits the chair it has bumped into.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Mark Twain It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • James Baldwin It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales It is a weakness that I lead from my heart, and not my head?
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