Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1561 till 1580 of 12035.

  • Matthew Arnold Because thou must not dream, thou need not despair.
    Matthew Arnold
    British critic and poet (1822 - 1888)
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  • Brandon Lee Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Pierre de Beaumarchais Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more.
    Pierre de Beaumarchais
    French playwright (1732 - 1799)
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Become a fixer, not just a fixture.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Billy Carter Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.
    Billy Carter
    American businessman, brewer, and politician (1937 - 1988)
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  • Katherine Mansfield Before confessing, be perfectly certain that you do not wish to be forgiven.
    Katherine Mansfield
    New Zealand-born British Author (1888 - 1923)
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  • Barry Marshall Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.
    Barry Marshall
    Australian physician, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology (1951 - )
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  • Austin O'Malley Before you beat a child, be sure yourself are not the cause of the offense.
    Austin O'Malley
    American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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  • Bertrand Russell Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.
    The Conquest Of Happiness
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche Beggars should be entirely abolished! Truly, it is annoying to give to them and annoying not to give to them.
    Original: Bettler aber sollte man ganz abschaffen! Wahrlich, man ärgert sich ihnen zu geben und ärgert sich ihnen nicht zu geben.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • B. F. Skinner Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions.
    B. F. Skinner
    American psychologist, behaviorist and author (1904 - 1990)
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  • Honoré de Balzac Behind every great fortune there is a crime.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work out salvation... Let us not deceive ourselves: we must elect world peace or world destruction.
    Address to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (14 June 1946)
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Walt Whitman Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Fanny Brice Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn't get serious with people. They don't expect it from you, and they don't want to see it. You're not entitled to be serious, you're a clown, and they only want you to make them laugh.
    Fanny Brice
    American comedienne and singer (1891 - 1951)
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot Being a language, mathematics may be used not only to inform but also, among other things, to seduce.
    Fractals : Form, chance and dimension
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Bernie S. Siegel Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.
    Bernie S. Siegel
    American writer and pediatric surgeon (1932 - )
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  • Bill Plympton Being a talented artist is good, it's nice, but it's not the most important thing. I think being a good storyteller, having a good idea, a good gag, is probably more important than being a great artist.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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