Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 10541 till 10560 of 12035.

  • Bharati Mukherjee We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.
    Bharati Mukherjee
    Indian American writer and professor (1940 - 2017)
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  • Benjamin Netanyahu We don't point a pistol at our own forehead. That is not the way to conduct negotiations.
    Benjamin Netanyahu
    Israeli politician (2009 - )
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  • Will Rogers We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • George Bernard Shaw We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Rowan We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.
    Carl Rowan
    American government official, journalist and author (1925 - 2000)
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  • Angela Merkel We feel bound to the Christian image of humanity - that is what defines us. Those who do not accept this are in the wrong place here.
    Angela Merkel
    German politician and chancellor (1954 - )
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  • Carlton Cuse We feel like 'Lost' deserved a real resolution, not a 'snow globe, waking up in bed, it's all been a dream, cut to black' kind of ending. We thought that would be kind of a betrayal to an audience that's been on this journey for six years. We thought that was not the right ending for our show.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Thomas Paine We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Ben Harper We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
    Ben Harper
    American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist (1969 - )
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  • Paul Auster We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.
    Source: Moon Palace (2010) 119
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Nicolai A. Berdyaev We find the most terrible form of atheism, not in the militant and passionate struggle against the idea of God himself, but in the practical atheism of everyday living, in indifference and torpor. We often encounter these forms of atheism among those who are formally Christians.
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  • A. E. Housman We for a certainty are not the first have sat in taverns while the tempest hurled their hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursed whatever brute and blackguard made the world.
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Bernard Williams We grow a little every time we do not take advantage of somebody's weakness.
    Bernard Williams
    English philosopher (1929 - 2003)
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  • Woodrow Wilson We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Eli Stanley Jones We grow small trying to be great.
    Eli Stanley Jones
    American missionary and theologian (1884 - 1973)
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  • Adolph Green We had a certain kind of really big prestige among, I suppose not just intellectual folk, but a sort of nice middle class intelligent folk of a very urban nature.
    Adolph Green
    American lyricist and playwright (1914 - 2002)
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  • Aesop We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Henry Wheeler Shaw We hate those who will not take our advice, and despise them who do.
    Henry Wheeler Shaw
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Butch Trucks We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche We have art in order not to die of the truth.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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