Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 9121 till 9140 of 12035.

  • Helen Hayes The story of a love is not important - what is important is that one is capable of love. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.
    Helen Hayes
    American actress (1900 - 1993)
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  • Brenda Blethyn The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening.
    Brenda Blethyn
    English actress (1946 - )
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  • George Herbert Allen The street to obscurity is paved with athletes who can perform great feats before friendly crowds.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Blaise Pascal The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ben Bernanke The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal The struggle alone pleases us, not the victory.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Walter Lippmann The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.
    Walter Lippmann
    American writer, reporter, and political commentator (1889 - 1974)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The study of social progress is today not less needed in literature than is the analysis of the human heart.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Thomas Szasz The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
    Thomas Szasz
    American psychiatrist (1920 - 2012)
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  • Carlos Ruiz Zafon The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
    Carlos Ruiz Zafon
    Spanish novelist (1964 - 2020)
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  • Henry David Thoreau The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • B. D. Wong The success of the storytellers - we're only as good as what we can withhold from the audience. Aspects of surprise and letting things play out for the audience - it's so much a part of their enjoyment. It's one of the great things about working in the movies and being a great storyteller.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Lily Walters The success of your presentation will be judged not by the knowledge you send but by what the listener receives.
    Lily Walters
     
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  • Marshall Mcluhan The successor to politics will be propaganda. Propaganda, not in the sense of a message or ideology, but as the impact of the whole technology of the times.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Boris Becker The suit-and-tie job is very nice but it's not really who I am in my heart.
    Boris Becker
    German tennis player (1967 - )
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  • Harriet Martineau The sum and substance of female education in America, as in England, is training women to consider marriage as the sole object in life, and to pretend that they do not think so.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • John Lyly The sun shineth upon the dunghill, and is not corrupted.
    John Lyly
    English writer, poet, dramatist, and courtier (1553 - 1606)
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  • Willa Cather The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Confucius The superior man is firm in the right way, and not merely firm.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Henry James The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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