Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 10701 till 10720 of 12035.

• We really teach ourselves. If you want to learn, you will always find someone to learn from, be they dead or alive, great or unknown. You learn from everything you see and hear around you - if you are willing to pay attention.

  ― Alexander Volkov
   
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• We recognize that it is not only inbound but also outbound (cargo) that can pose a risk as well.

  ― Asa Hutchinson
  American businessman, attorney, and politician (1950 - )
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• We romantic writers are there to make people feel and not think. A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  ― Barbara Cartland
  English author of romance novels (1901 - 2000)
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• We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution.

  ― Victor Hugo
  French writer (1802 - 1885)
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• We see a successful, elegant man now, but as a child, an adolescent, his life was not a done deal. Sidney respected his mistakes. When failure came, he never said, This is too difficult, too hard, he had the resiliency to try again. His life is somewhere between astounding and unbelievable.

  Source: Comment on Sidney Poitier, as quoted in a press release at AARP (24 July 2008)

  ― Bill Cosby
  American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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• We see the world not as it is, but as we are.
  

  ― Stephen R. Covey
  American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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• We see things as we are, not as they are.

  ― Leo Rosten
  Polish-American scientist (1908 - 1997)
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• We shall never achieve harmony with land, any more than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations, the important thing is not to achieve but to strive.

  ― Aldo Leopold
  American author, philosopher, naturalist and conservationist, (1887 - 1948)
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• We shall never understand the ethical system taught by Jesus unless we realize that he was a Jew, not only by birth, but that he lived and taught as a Jew; the Sermon on the Mount was addressed to his distracted fellow nationals.

  ― Arthur Keith
  Scottish anatomist and anthropologist (1866 - 1952)
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• We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started... and know the place for the first time.

  ― T. S. Eliot
  British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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• We shall not defeat any of the infectious diseases that plague the developing world until we have also won the battle for safe drinking water, sanitation, and basic health care.

  Source: Faceboek (2017)

  ― Kofi Annan
  Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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• We shall not have succeeded in demolishing everything unless we demolish the ruins as well. But the only way I can see of doing that is to use them to put up a lot of fine, well-designed buildings.

  ― Alfred Jarry
  French playwright, author (1873 - 1907)
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• We shall problably have nothing to say, but we intend to say it at great length.

  ― Don Marquis
  American writer (1878 - 1937)
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• We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
  

  ― Winston Churchill
  English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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• We should be concerned not only about the health of individual patients, but also the health of our entire society.

  ― Ben Carson
  American politician, and author (1951 - )
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• We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

  ― Alvar Aalto
  Finnish architect and designer (1898 - 1976)
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• We should consider every day lost in which we have not danced at least once.

  ― Friedrich Nietzsche
  German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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• We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

  ― Confucius
  Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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• We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

  ― John Locke
  English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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• We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

  ― Aesop
  Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• well-designed
• prostitution
• unbelievable
• aspirations
• exploration
• demolishing

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