Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 5121 till 5140 of 12035.

  • David Hume It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.
    David Hume
    Scottish Philosopher, Historian (1711 - 1776)
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  • Bo Bennett It is not rejection itself that people fear, it is the possible consequences of rejection. Preparing to accept those consequences and viewing rejection as a learning experience that will bring you closer to success, will not only help you to conquer the fear of rejection, but help you to appreciate rejection itself.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Alan Cohen It is not selfish to be happy. It is your highest purpose. Your joy is the greatest contribution you can make to life on the planet. A heart at peace with its owner blesses everyone it touches.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal It is not shameful for a man to succumb to pain and it is shameful to succumb to pleasure.
    Original: Il nest pas honteux pour lhomme de succomber sous la douleur et il est honteux de succomber sous le plaisir.
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Hannah More It is not so important to know everything as to know the exact value of everything, to appreciate what we learn, and to arrange what we know.
    Hannah More
    British Writer, Reformer, Philanthropist (1745 - 1833)
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  • Eric Hoffer It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bob Gibson It is not something I earned or acquired or bought. It is a gift. It is something that was given to me - just like the color of my skin.
    Bob Gibson
    American baseball player (1935 - 2020)
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  • Susan Sontag It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • Cesare Pavese It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Billy Graham It is not the body's posture, but the heart's attitude that counts when we pray.
    The quotable Billy Graham (1966)
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Arthur Wellesley It is not the business of generals to shoot one another.
    Arthur Wellesley
    Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman (1769 - 1852)
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  • Cyril Northcote Parkinson It is not the business of the botanist to eradicate the weeds. Enough for him if he can tell us just how fast they grow.
    The Economist (November 1955)
    Cyril Northcote Parkinson
    British naval historian (1909 - 1993)
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  • George Macdonald It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
    George Macdonald
    Scottish writer (1824 - 1905)
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  • Boris Sidis It is not the citizen, or a taxpayer, or voter, or office-holder, but the cultivated, free individual who is the true aim of all social progress.
    The Source and Aim of Human Progress (1919)
    Boris Sidis
    Ukrainian-American psychologist, psychiatrist, and philosopher (1867 - 1923)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau It is not the criminal things that are hardest to confess, but the ridiculous and the shameful.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Henry Ford It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
    Henry Ford
    American industrialist (1863 - 1947)
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  • Ian Mcewan It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.
    Ian Mcewan
    English novelist and screenwriter (1948 - )
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  • Robert H. Jackson It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.
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  • Branch Rickey It is not the honor that you take with you, but the heritage you leave behind.
    Branch Rickey
    American baseball player (1881 - )
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  • Sidney Madwed It is not the hours we put in on the job, it is what we put into the hours that counts.
    Sidney Madwed
    American business consultant, lyricist and author
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