Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 5041 till 5060 of 12035.

  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Stephen Hawking It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Marcus Aurelius It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne It is not death that alarms me, but dying.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henry Fielding It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for law, so much as a respect for right.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Audre Lorde It is not difference which immobilizes us, but silence.
    Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (2012) 44
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • John Updike It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • George Bernard Shaw It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Samuel Smiles It is not ease but effort, not facility but difficult, that makes man. There is perhaps no station in life in which difficulties do not have to be encountered and overcome before any decided means of success can be achieved.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
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  • Agnes Repplier It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
    Agnes Repplier
    American writer and social criticus (1855 - 1950)
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  • Jean Rostand It is not easy to imagine how little interested a scientist usually is in the work of any other, with the possible exception of the teacher who backs him or the student who honors him.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Barbara Amiel It is not empty rhetoric to talk of the Free World.
    Barbara Amiel
    British journalist, writer, and socialite (1940 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson It is not enough to be ready to go where duty calls. A man should stand around where he can hear the call!
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Andrew Cohen It is not enough to be well-intentioned; one must strive to put those intentions into action in a capable way. One must consider the effect his actions will have on others. Looked at like this, to persist in ignorance is itself dishonorable.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • John Morley It is not enough to do good; one must do it in a good way.
    On Compromise p. 58
    John Morley
    British journalist, statesman (1838 - 1923)
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  • Dr. W. Edwards Deming It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.
    Dr. W. Edwards Deming
    American engineer, statistician, professor and author (1900 - 1993)
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  • René Descartes It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.
    René Descartes
    French philosopher, scientist (1596 - 1650)
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