Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1621 till 1640 of 12035.

  • B. B. King Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • O. Henry Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
    O. Henry
    American short story writer, pen name of William S. Porter (1862 - 1910)
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  • F. L. Lucan Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
    F. L. Lucan
    Roman epic poet (39 - 65)
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  • Francis Bacon Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William Shakespeare Bondage is hoarse and may not speak aloud.
    Source: Romeo and Juliet (1595)
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Edwin P. Whipple Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
    Edwin P. Whipple
    American essay writer (1819 - 1886)
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  • Barry Eisler Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • John Milton Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Horace Mann Books are not made for furniture but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house
    Source: The Duty of Owning Books (1859)
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Stephen Vincent Benét Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
    Stephen Vincent Benét
    American poet, short story writer, and novelist (1898 - 1943)
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  • Joseph Addison Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Salman Rushdie Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Francis Bacon Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Border strengthening is effective, but not if done in isolation. We also need to give priority to establishing public institutions that deliver a sustained level of security and justice for citizens. Border security can never come at the expense of migrants' rights. Nor can it be used to legitimize inhumane treatment.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • A. A. Milne Bores can be divided into two classes; those who have their own particular subject, and those who do not need a subject.
    A. A. Milne
    English author, writer of the Winnie-the-Pooh books (1882 - 1956)
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  • Doris Lessing Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing.
    Doris Lessing
    British novelist (1919 - 2013)
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  • Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Both of them were the children of the United States. They sacrificed their children for the benefit of the others. But they were not very devoted children of the United States.
    Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
    Iranian politician and writer (1934 - 2017)
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  • Cass Sunstein Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Boyhood is a most complex and incomprehensible thing. Even when one has been through it, one does not understand what it was. A man can never quite understand a boy, even when he has been the boy.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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