Quotes with not-too-distant

Quotes 6741 till 6760 of 11267.

  • Marcel Proust People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the comma bacillus.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Atal Bihari Vajpayee People who ask us when we will hold talks with Pakistan are perhaps not aware that over the last 55 years, every initiative for a dialogue with Pakistan has invariably come from India.
    Atal Bihari Vajpayee
    Indian statesman (1924 - 2018)
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  • Bo Bennett People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.
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    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • W. M. Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Bernard Pivot People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.
    Bernard Pivot
    French journalist and interviewer (1935 - )
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  • Thomas Sowell People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
    Thomas Sowell
    American economist, social theorist and political philosopher (1930 - )
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  • Stephen R. Covey People who exercise their embryonic freedom day after day, little by little, expand that freedom. People who do not will find that it withers until they are literally ''being lived.'' They are acting out scripts written by parents, associates and society.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Vaclav Havel People who live in the post-totalitarian system know only too well that the question of whether one or several political parties are in power, and how these parties define and label themselves, is of far less importance than the question of whether or not it is possible to live like a human being.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • John Jay Chapman People who love soft methods and hate iniquity forget this, that reform consists in taking a bone from a dog. Philosophy will not do it.
    John Jay Chapman
    American author (1862 - 1933)
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  • Malcolm Forbes People who matter are most aware that everyone else does, too.
    Malcolm Forbes
    American businessman and publisher (Forbes Magazine) (1919 - 1990)
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  • Cal Thomas People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
    Cal Thomas
    American columnist and author (1942 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Maxwell Maltz People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to ''look forward to'' - to work for and hope for.
    Maxwell Maltz
    American surgeon and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Bern Williams People who say, 'Let the chips fall where they may,' usually figure they will not be hit by a chip.
    Bern Williams
    English philosopher
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  • James Baldwin People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Carlos Ghosn People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.
    Carlos Ghosn
    Brazilian-born businessman (1954 - )
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  • Aldous Huxley People will insist on treating the mons Veneris as though it were Mount Everest. Too silly!
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Edmund Burke People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Alice Walker People will say to you, Oh, you are fearless. That is so not true. We should stop saying that about people. It's a slander, really.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bell Hooks People with healthy self-esteem do not need to create pretend identities. - From (2003) Rock My Soul
    Bell Hooks
    American author, professor, feminist (born G.J.Watkins) (1952 - 2021)
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