Quotes with not-so-great

Quotes 1681 till 1700 of 12035.

  • Benjamin Whorf But in due course it became evident that not only a physical situation qua physics, but the meaning of that situation to people, was sometimes a factor, through the behavior of people, in the start of a fire.
    Benjamin Whorf
    American linguist and engineer (1897 - 1941)
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  • Harriet Martineau But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Sidonie Gabrielle Colette But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.
    Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
    French writer (1873 - 1954)
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  • Bell Hooks But love is really more of an interactive process. It's about what we do not just what we feel. It's a verb, not a noun.
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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  • Ernest Hemingway But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
    The Old Man and the Sea (1952)
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Buck Owens But most distinctly, I remember always saying to myself that when I get big, I'm not going to go to bed hungry, I'm not going to wear hand-me-down clothes.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • George Eliot But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Jeanette Winterson But not all dark places need light, I have to remember that.
    Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (2007) 172
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Anne Hutchinson But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Bob Kerrey But on the big things, I'm not going to trim in order to win public opinion. Because I really don't want to serve in the Senate if I arrive there without permission to do the things I think need to be done.
    Bob Kerrey
    American politician (1943 - )
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  • Barbara Hall But penance need not be paid in suffering... It can be paid in forward motion. Correcting the mistake is a positive move, a nurturing move.
    A Summons to New Orleans
    Barbara Hall
    American television writer and producer (1960 - )
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  • A. J. McLean But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart... I am a big teddy bear.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Alexander Pope But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • John Stuart Mill But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • George Eliot But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ann Veneman But the fact of the matter is that all scientific evidence would show, based upon what we know about this disease, that muscle cuts - that is, the meat of the animal itself - should not cause any risk to human health.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Carl Sagan But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Bill Condon But the imposition of morality onto science, - where it does not belong - has become rampant in recent years.
    Bill Condon
    American director and screenwriter (1955 - )
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  • Anita Hill But the issue of sexual harassment is not the end of it. There are other issues - political issues, gender issues - that people need to be educated about.
    Anita Hill
    American lawyer and academic (1956 - )
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