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Quotes 2901 till 2920 of 3762.

  • Laurence Sterne There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Sir William Temple There cannot live a more unhappy creature than an ill-natured old man, who is neither capable of receiving pleasures, nor sensible of conferring them on others.
    Sir William Temple
    British Diplomat, Essayist (1628 - 1699)
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  • Benjamin N. Cardozo There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion.
    Benjamin N. Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Alexander Pope There goes a saying, and 'twas shrewdly said, ''Old fish at table, but young flesh in bed.''
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Arthur Hailey There I was, an 18-year-old mimic rooming with a blind whistler.
    Arthur Hailey
    British-Canadian novelist (1920 - 2004)
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  • James Baldwin There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Michael Cunningham There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.
    Michael Cunningham
    American novelist and screenwriter (1952 - )
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  • Bo Bennett There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.
    Bo Bennett
    American author (1972 - )
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  • Henry Fielding There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.
    Henry Fielding
    English writer (1707 - 1754)
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  • Adlai Stevenson II There is a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied by material things alone - by better cars on longer credit terms.
    Source: Speech DNC 17-08-1956
    Adlai Stevenson II
    American politician and governor (1900 - 1965)
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  • Edward Dahlberg There is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Anne Brontë There is always a 'but' in this imperfect world.
    Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) Ch. XXII
    Anne Brontë
    British writer (1820 - 1849)
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  • Hubert Humphrey There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone - who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • Maria Montessori There is in every child a painstaking teacher, so skilful that he obtains identical results in all children in all parts of the world. The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything!
    Maria Montessori
    Italian educationalist (1870 - 1952)
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  • James Lendall Basford There is much proud humility and humble pride in the world.
    Source: Sparks from the philosopher's stone (1882)
    James Lendall Basford
    American aphorist (1845 - 1915)
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  • Thomas Henry Huxley There is no alleviation for the sufferings of mankind except veracity of thought and of action, and the resolute facing of the world as it is when the garment of make-believe by which pious hands have hidden its uglier features is stripped off.
    Thomas Henry Huxley
    English biologist (1825 - 1895)
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  • Oscar Wilde There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Binyavanga Wainaina There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.
    Binyavanga Wainaina
    Kenyan author and journalist (1971 - 2019)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world.
    Source: 'Virginibus Puerisque ' An Apology for Idlers' (1881)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Theodore Harold White There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.
    Theodore Harold White
    American political journalist and historian (1915 - 1986)
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