Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 10121 till 10140 of 12035.

  • Bill Haslam To say that because of someone's heritage or their ethnicity that they are unable to provide fair judgement is just wrong. It's just not how the judicial system works in our country and not how it ever can work.
    Bill Haslam
    American businessman and politician (1958 - )
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  • D'Amato Cus To see a man beaten not by a better opponent but by himself is a tragedy.
    D'Amato Cus
    American boxing manager and trainer
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  • Bodhidharma To see nothing is to perceive the Way, and to understand nothing is to know the Dharma, because seeing is neither seeing nor not seeing and because understanding is neither understanding nor not understanding.
    Source: The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Confucius To see what is right, and not do it, is want of courage, or of principle.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Milan Kundera To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Campbell Brown To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
    Campbell Brown
    American journalist (1968 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable.
    Source: The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Abbie Hoffman To steal from a brother or sister is evil. To not steal from the institutions that are the pillars of the Pig Empire is equally immoral.
    Abbie Hoffman
    American political and social activist (1936 - 1989)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Augustus William Hare To talk without effort is, after all, the great charm of talking.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Edmund Burke To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Thomas Merton To the truly humble man the ordinary ways and customs and habits of men are not a matter of conflict.
    Thomas Merton
    American religeous writer, poet (1915 - 1968)
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  • Bow Wow To the world, I'm Bow Wow. When I leave here and I go to L.A., and I go to my daughter's house and I sit with her, I feel like Shad. I'm not Bow; I'm 'Daddy.' It's, like, the illest feeling in the world. I feel like I'm away from everything.
    Bow Wow
    American rapper and actor (Shad Gregory Moss) (1987 - )
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  • William Shakespeare To thine own self be true; and it must follow, as the night the day: thou canst not then be false to any man.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Samuel Beckett To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.
    Samuel Beckett
    Irish dramatist and novelist (1906 - 1989)
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  • Benny Goodman To this day, I don't like people walking on stage not looking good. You have to look good. If you feel special about yourself then you're going to play special.
    Benny Goodman
    American jazz clarinetist and bandleader (1909 - 1986)
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  • Robert Thibodeau To try is all. It matters not if one succeeds or fails outwardly.
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  • John Stuart Mill To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Kahlil Gibran To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to do.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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