Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 5181 till 5200 of 12035.

  • Seneca It is often better not to see an insult than to avenge it.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Grenville Kleiser It is often better to have a great deal of harm happen to one than a little; a great deal may rouse you to remove what a little will only accustom you to endure.
    Grenville Kleiser
    Canadian-American author (1868 - 1935)
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  • Arthur Christopher Benson It is often wonderful how putting down on paper a clear statement of a case helps one to see, not perhaps the way out, but the way in.
    Arthur Christopher Benson
    English essayist, poet, author and academic (1862 - 1925)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung It is on the whole probably that we continually dream, but that consciousness makes such a noise that we do not hear it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Vance Havner It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • C. P. Snow It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.
    Public Affairs (1971)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe It is only necessary to grow old to become more charitable and even indulgent. I see no fault committed by others that I have not committed myself.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bill Shuster It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Anson Jones It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
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  • Oscar Wilde It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Anatole France It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
    Anatole France
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1921) (1844 - 1924)
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  • C. S. Lewis It is only when you are asked to believe in Reason coming from non-reason that you must cry Halt. Human minds. They do not come from nowhere.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Pierre Teilhard de Chardin It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
    Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
    French Christian mystic, author (1881 - 1955)
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  • Abba Eban It is our experience that political leaders do not always mean the opposite of what they say.
    Abba Eban
    Israeli diplomat and politician (1915 - 2002)
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  • Barnett Newman It is our function as artists to make the spectator see the world our way not his way.
    Barnett Newman
    American artist (1905 - 1970)
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  • C. L. R. James It is over one hundred years since the abolition of slavery. The Negro people in the United States have taken plenty and they have reached a stage where they have decided that they are not going to take any more.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • Plutarch It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Oscar Wilde It is personalities, not principles, that move the age
    The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) H. 3
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John Wagstaff It is rare indeed that there is not ample occasion for grumbling.
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