Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 7281 till 7300 of 12035.

  • Oliver Goldsmith Persecution is a tribute the great must always pay for preeminence.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Alan Cohen Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Bill Frist Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
    Bill Frist
    American physician, businessman and politician (1952 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Personally i'm always ready to learn, although i do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Bill Mumy Personally, I don't think the film and television industries are run as well as they used to be. Oh sure, we've got great digital effects now but... where are the visionaries?
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Winston Churchill Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Bill Bryson Personally, I've never been attracted to danger. It's not my sort of thing. I am more attracted to pubs and cafes. The known, safe and comfortable world.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Clinton Pessimism is an excuse for not trying and a guarantee to a personal failure.
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and in Vermont, USA, with my sister - who is a children's writer married to a poet.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Ouida Petty laws breed great crimes.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Joseph Roux Philosophers call God ''the great unknown'' ''The great misknown'' is more like it!
    Joseph Roux
    French priest, writer and poet (1834 - 1905)
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  • Seneca Philosophy does not regard pedigree, she received Plato not as a noble, but she made him one.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Arnold Newman Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.
    Arnold Newman
    American photographer (1918 - 2006)
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  • John F. Kennedy Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body; it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.
    Sports Illustrated Vol 13, Is. 13 (26-12-1960)
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Alice James Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
    Alice James
    American diarist (1848 - 1892)
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  • Bill Berry Physically my brain is in great shape. My motor functions are fine, but I think going through the whole ordeal... coming pretty close to death, may have affected my priorities.
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  • George Bernard Shaw Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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