Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 9281 till 9300 of 12035.

  • Ursula K. Le Guin The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
    Ursula K. Le Guin
    American writer of science fiction and fantasy books (1929 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • John Irving The unspoken factor is love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me.
    John Irving
    American-Canadian novelist and screenwriter (1942 - )
    - +
     0
  • Edmund Burke The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
    - +
     0
  • Bradley A. Smith The usual test under the Federal Election Campaign Act for whether something counts as a campaign expenditure is whether the obligation would have existed but for the campaign. If so, it is not a campaign expenditure.
    Bradley A. Smith
    American law professor (1958 - )
    - +
     0
  • C. S. Lewis The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Albert Einstein The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
    - +
     0
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain; and there is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
    - +
     0
  • Sir William Osler The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.
    Sir William Osler
    Canadian Physician (1849 - 1919)
    - +
     0
  • Peter de Vries The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.
    Peter de Vries
    American writer (1910 - 1993)
    - +
     0
  • Benjamin Walker The vampire craze is kind of fascinating. We're interested in the idea of immorality and I think we're drawn to people or creatures who can give in to those base impulses and just be bad and not feel bad about it.
    Benjamin Walker
    American actor and stand-up comedian (1982 - )
    - +
     0
  • Aldous Huxley The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Ben Shapiro The vast majority of murdered whites are murdered by other whites. That's why there's no national outrage when a white person is killed by a black person: it's not evidence of some underlying black violence problem directed against white people.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
    - +
     0
  • Jean Baudrillard The very definition of the real becomes: that of which it is possible to give an equivalent reproduction. The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.
    Jean Baudrillard
    French sociologist and philosopher. (1929 - 2007)
    - +
     0
  • James Fenimore Cooper The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior to those who are not, so long as he is the repository of power, and the child inherits the wealth of the parent as a controlling law of society.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
    - +
     0
  • Samuel Smiles The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.
    Samuel Smiles
    Scottish writer (1812 - 1904)
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Kingsolver The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Lady Blessington The vices of the rich and great are mistaken for error; and those of the poor and lowly, for crimes.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
    - +
     0
  • Aldous Huxley The victim of mind-manipulation does not know that he is a victim. To him, the walls of his prison are invisible, and he believes himself to be free.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
    - +
     0
  • Brooks Atkinson The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
    - +
     0
  • Alexander Hamilton The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right.
    Alexander Hamilton
    American statesman (1757 - 1804)
    - +
     0
All not-so-great famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 465)