Quotes with not-so-great

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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Nothing seems at first sight less important than the outward form of human actions, yet there is nothing upon which men set more store: they grow used to everything except to living in a society which has not their own manners.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Barbara W. Tuchman Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
    Barbara W. Tuchman
    American historian (1912 - 1989)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow Nothing splendid was ever created in cold blood. Heat is required to forge anything. Every great accomplishment is the story of a flaming heart.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • C. S. Lewis Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Garrison Keillor Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
    Garrison Keillor
    American humoristic writer (1942 - )
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  • William Golding Novelists do not write as birds sing, by the push of nature. It is part of the job that there should be much routine and some daily stuff on the level of carpentry.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Virginia Woolf Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.
    Virginia Woolf
    English writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Rita Mae Brown Novelty is not necessarily a virtue.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Bess Truman Now about those ghosts. I'm sure they're here and I'm not half so alarmed at meeting up with any of them as I am at having to meet the live nuts I have to see every day.
    Bess Truman
    American first lady (1885 - 1982)
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  • Kingsley Amis Now and then I become conscious of having the reputation of being one of the great drinkers, if not one of the great drunks, of our time.
    Memoirs (1991)
    Kingsley Amis
    English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher (1922 - 1995)
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  • A. E. Housman Now hollow fires burn out to black,
    And lights are guttering low:
    Square your shoulders, lift your pack,
    And leave your friends and go.

    Oh never fear, man, nought's to dread,
    Look not to left nor right:
    In all the endless road you tread
    There's nothing but the night.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Anna Howard Shaw Now one of two things is true: Either a republic is a desirable form of government, or else it is not.
    Anna Howard Shaw
    American activist and leader of the women's suffrage movement (1847 - 1919)
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  • Louise Erdrich Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.
    The Round House (2013) 138
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Barry Humphries Now the point of comedy is not just looking funny, it's use of language. We have at our disposal a great language... and the imaginative, creative use of that language can be at the service of humour.
    Barry Humphries
    Australian comedian, actor, artist, and author (1934 - 2023)
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  • Winston Churchill Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
    Speech november 1942
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
    The Gettysburg Address, November 19, 1863
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Barack Obama Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Henry Fielding Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Arthur E. Waite Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life or with a knowledge of the canons of evidence in its own sphere.
    Arthur E. Waite
    American-born British poet and mystic (1857 - 1942)
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  • A. E. Housman Now, of my threescore years and ten,
    Twenty will not come again,
    And take from seventy springs a score,
    It only leaves me fifty more.

    And since to look at things in bloom
    Fifty springs are little room,
    About the woodlands I will go
    To see the cherry hung with snow.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 2, st. 2-3
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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