Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 12035.

  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Bjorn Borg As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.
    Bjorn Borg
    Swedish tennis player (1956 - )
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  • C. L. R. James As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study.
    C. L. R. James
    Trinidadian historian, journalist and socialist (1901 - 1989)
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  • B. Carroll Reece As the egalitarianism of Marxism is attractive to many, socialism could have attracted many followers in America, anyway. But there is no doubt that it could not possibly have affected us so widely and so deeply as it has, had it not been heavily financed.
    B. Carroll Reece
    American politician (1889 - 1961)
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As the few adepts in such things well know, universal morality is to be found in little everyday penny-events just as much as in great ones. There is so much goodness and ingenuity in a raindrop that an apothecary wouldn't let it go for less than half-a-crown...
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • E. J. Hobsbawm As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports.
    E. J. Hobsbawm
    British historian
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  • Jeremy Collier As the language of the face is universal, so 'tis very comprehensive; no laconism can reach it: 'Tis the short hand of the mind, and crowds a great deal in a little room
    Jeremy Collier
    English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian (1650 - 1726)
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  • Henry David Thoreau As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Anthony Trollope As to that leisure evening of life, I must say that I do not want it. I can conceive of no contentment of which toil is not to be the immediate parent.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • John Lennon As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.
    John Lennon
    British musician (1940 - 1980)
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  • Barbara Mikulski As we move from an economy of affluence to an economy of scarcity, we must be careful that the people who make $5,000 a year are not pitted against those who make $25,000 a year by those who make $900,000.
    Barbara Mikulski
    American politician (1936 - )
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  • Beth Ditto As with most phobias, the fear of flying does make some sense, but if ever there was a fear worth quashing then this is it. After all, life is short, and there's a great big world to explore out there.
    Beth Ditto
    American singer-songwriter and actress (1981 - )
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  • Orson Welles Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • William Shakespeare Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
    Source: Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Astronauts are not superhuman. They lead ordinary lives and have varied personalities.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Caroline Lawrence At 16, when I was at Henry M. Gunn High School, I had a crush on the English teacher, and my grades improved dramatically. This great school had only 400 students, mostly children of Stanford professors, and it was more usual to have classes under one of the oak trees dotted around the campus than in the classroom.
    Caroline Lawrence
    English American author (1954 - )
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  • Alexander Woollcott At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
    Alexander Woollcott
    American critic and commentator (0 - 1943)
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  • William Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Arne Duncan At a time when going to college has never been more important, it's never been more expensive, and our nation's families haven't been in this kind of financial duress since the great depression. And so what we have is just sort of a miraculous opportunity simply by stopping the subsidy to banks when we already have the risk of loans. We can plow those savings into our students. And we can make college dramatically more affordable, tens of billions of dollars over the next decade.
    Arne Duncan
    American civil servant (1964 - )
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  • Arsene Wenger At a young age winning is not the most important thing... the important thing is to develop creative and skilled players with good confidence.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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