Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 9061 till 9080 of 12035.

  • Joseph Conrad The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Bayard Ruskin The scupltor does not work for the anatomist, but for the common observer of life and nature.
    Bayard Ruskin
     
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach-waiting for a gift from the sea.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alfred Loisy The search for truth is not a trade by which a man can support himself; for a priest it is a supreme peril .
    Alfred Loisy
    French theologian (1857 - 1940)
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  • Walker Percy The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
    Walker Percy
     
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  • Donald Trump The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed upon.
    Donald Trump
    American businessman (1946 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
    Source: A Treatise on Parents and Children (1910)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sir James Matthew Barrie The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
    Sir James Matthew Barrie
    British playwright (1860 - 1937)
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  • Fjodor M. Dostojewski The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.
    Fjodor M. Dostojewski
    Russisch writer (1821 - 1881)
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  • Harry Houdini The secret of showmanship consists not of what you really do, but what the mystery-loving public thinks you do.
    Harry Houdini
    Hungarian-born American illusionist (1874 - 1926)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich The secret of the truly successful, I believe, is that they learned very early in life how not to be busy. They saw through that adage, repeated to me so often in childhood, that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity, but in being uninteresting.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • John Dryden The secret pleasure of a generous act, is the great mind's great bribe.
    John Dryden
    English poet and playwright (1631 - 1700)
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  • Mark Twain The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Augusten Burroughs The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • John Dewey The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
    John Dewey
    American philosopher (1859 - 1952)
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  • Carl Romanelli The Senate needs to protect the interests of the American people and the world community, not provide political cover to President Bush. It's not enough to call Saddam Hussein evil incarnate.
    Source: on U.S. Senate hearings into President Bushs planned invasion of Iraq
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  • Carl Schurz The Senator from Wisconsin cannot frighten me by exclaiming, My country, right or wrong. In one sense I say so too. My country; and my country is the great American Republic. My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.
    Carl Schurz
    American statesman, journalist, and reformer (1829 - 1906)
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  • Norman Cousins The sense of paralysis proceeds not so much out of the mammoth size of the problem but out of the puniness of the purpose.
    Norman Cousins
    American Editor, Humanitarian, Author (1915 - 1990)
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