Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 9521 till 9540 of 12035.

  • William Shakespeare There have been many great men that have flattered the people who never loved them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Ashley Montagu There have been some medical schools in which somewhere along the assembly line, a faculty member has informed the students, not so much by what he said but by what he did, that there is an intimate relation between curing and caring.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Billy Campbell There have been times when I've been asked to do things and I've thought, 'This is great! This is a great script. But, I do not believe myself in this role.' I pretend I'm the producer and I think, 'If I was making this movie, would I cast myself in this part,' and if that doesn't feel right to me, then I don't even go audition for it.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Ben Kingsley There have not been any troughs as regards my work. There's never been a trough of my assurance.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Bill Viola There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel that human beings need to be aware of, and grounded in, history.
    Bill Viola
    American video artist (1951 - )
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  • Annie Dillard There is a certain age at which a child looks at you in all earnestness and delivers a long, pleased speech in all the true inflections of spoken English, but with not one recognizable syllable.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • M. Rukeyser There is a choice, and the rest falls away. Second choice does not exist.
    M. Rukeyser
     
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  • Jorge Luis Borges There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
    Jorge Luis Borges
    Argentijns writer (1899 - 1986)
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  • Marlene Dietrich There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.
    Marlene Dietrich
    German-born American Film Actor (1901 - 1992)
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  • Mark Twain There is a great deal of human nature in people.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Charles F. Kettering There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.
    Charles F. Kettering
    American inventor (1876 - 1958)
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  • Thomas Carlyle There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Caitlin Thomas There is a great gulf between the really creative person and normal people. The totally creative person does not have the rest of his life in proper proportion.
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Freeman Dyson There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.
    Freeman Dyson
    American arts, writer (1923 - 2020)
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  • Beverly Sills There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm. Men will always be attracted to women with nice soft arms and a fleshy bosom.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • A. J. Liebling There is a healthy American newspaper tradition of not taking yourself seriously. It is the story you must take that way.... And if you do take yourself seriously, according to this sound convention, you are supposed to do your best not to let anyone else know about it. (Like bed-wetting.)
    A. J. Liebling
    American journalist (1904 - 1963)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune; it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things; it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Alfred Adler There is a law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish.
    Alfred Adler
    Austrian psychiatrist (1870 - 1937)
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  • Carl Sagan There is a lurking fear that some things are 'not meant' to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human being to make.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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