Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1541 till 1560 of 12035.

  • Will Rogers Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Caleb Cushing Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of the great right of petition inherent in the People of the United States.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • George Herbert Be thrifty, but not covetous.
    George Herbert
    English poet (1593 - 1633)
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  • Lord Chesterfield Be wiser than other people, if you can; but do not tell them so.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
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  • Brody Jenner Be yourself. And if you're not accepted by your family, there will be people who will accept you.
    Brody Jenner
    American television personality, disc jockey and model (1983 - )
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  • Kahlil Gibran Beauty in not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Paul Klee Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first.
    Paul Klee
    Swiss artist (1879 - 1940)
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  • Georges Bataille Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Jean Anouilh Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
    Jean Anouilh
    French playwright (1910 - 1987)
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  • E. M. Forster Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Arnold Bennett Because her instinct has told her, or because she has been reliably informed, the faded virgin knows that the supreme joys are not for her; she knows by a process of the intellect; but she can feel her deprivation no more than the young mother can feel the hardship of the virgin's lot.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Anita Hill Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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  • Bernard Mandeville Because Impudence is a Vice, it does not follow that Modesty is a Virtue; it is built upon Shame, a Passion in our Nature, and may be either Good or Bad according to the Actions perform'd from that Motive.
    The Fable of the Bees Remark C, p. 65
    Bernard Mandeville
    British writer and artist (1670 - 1733)
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  • Abu Bakar Bashir Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
    Abu Bakar Bashir
    Indonesian Muslim cleric (1938 - )
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  • Bernice Weissbourd Because it's not only that a child is inseparable from the family in which he lives, but that the lives of families are determined by the community in which they live and the cultural tradition from which they come.
    Bernice Weissbourd
    American psychologist
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  • Lao-Tzu Because of a great love, one is courageous.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Bayard Taylor Because the gift of Song was chiefly lent, To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Bertolt Brecht Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
    Bertolt Brecht
    German - Austrian writer (1898 - 1956)
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