Quotes with not-too-distant

Quotes 3941 till 3960 of 11267.

• If it can't be expressed in figures, it's not science it's opinion.

  Lazarus Long
   
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• If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.

  A Distant Mirror Jean Gerson, quoted on p. 520

  Barbara W. Tuchman
  American historian (1912 - 1989)
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• If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

  Marcus Aurelius
  Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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• If it took professional wrestling for people to recognize me as a person, then all the other endeavors I embark upon will explain me as a person, define me as a person, but wrestling will not define me.

  Bill Goldberg
  American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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• If it was not absolutely necessary, it was the foolishest thing ever done.

  Lord Melbourne
  British Statesman, Prime Minister (1779 - 1848)
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• If it were not for the company of fools, a witty man would often be greatly at a loss.

  Francois de la Rochefoucauld
  French writer (1613 - 1680)
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• If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

  Nicolas Chamfort
  French writer, journalist and playwright (1741 - 1794)
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• If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy.

  Aldous Huxley
  English writer (1894 - 1963)
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• If it were not for the presents, an elopement would be preferable.

  George Ade
  American humorist, playwright (1866 - 1944)
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• If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.

  Dorothy L. Sayers
  British writer (1893 - 1957)
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• If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

  Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
  German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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• If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.

  Calvin Trillin
  American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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• If it's not going to sound like Terrapin Station, what's the point of playing Terrapin Station?

  Branford Marsalis
  American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (1960 - )
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• If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

  Thomas Carlyle
  Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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• If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.

  Carine Roitfeld
  French fashion editor (1954 - )
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• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

  Asimov's Guide to Science (1972) p. 15

  Isaac Asimov
  American writer (1920 - 1992)
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• If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

  Samuel Butler
  English poet (1835 - 1902)
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• If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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• If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

  André Maurois
  French writer (ps. van mile Herzog) (1885 - 1967)
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• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

  John Updike
  American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• practitioners
• inappropriate
• intellectual
• foolishest
• government
• preferable

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