Quotes with one-seventh

Quotes 4801 till 4820 of 5912.

  • Charles De Montesquieu There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
    Charles De Montesquieu
    French philosopher (1689 - 1755)
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  • Cyril Connolly There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero There is no place more delightful than one's own fireplace.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Vince Lombardi There is no room for second place. There is only one place in my game and that is first place. I have finished second twice in my time at Green Bay and I never want to finish second again.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Josiah Gilbert Holland There is no royal road to anything. One thing at a time, all things in succession. That which grows fast, withers as rapidly. That which grows slowly, endures.
    Josiah Gilbert Holland
    American Author (1819 - 1881)
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  • Carlo Ponti There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
    Carlo Ponti
    Italian film producer (1912 - 2007)
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  • Ben Hogan There is no similarity between golf and putting; they are two different games, one played in the air, and the other on the ground.
    Ben Hogan
    American professional golfer (1912 - )
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  • Benoit Mandelbrot There is no single rule that governs the use of geometry. I don't think that one exists.
    New Scientist interview
    Benoit Mandelbrot
    Polish-born French and American mathematician and polymath (1924 - 2010)
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  • Liu Shao-Ch'I There is no such thing as a perfect leader either in the past or present, in China or elsewhere. If there is one, he is only pretending, like a pig inserting scallions into its nose in an effort to look like an elephant.
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  • Camille Paglia There is no true expertise in the humanities without knowing all of the humanities. Art is a vast, ancient interconnected web-work, a fabricated tradition. Over-concentration on any one point is a distortion.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Joan Rivers There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
    Joan Rivers
    American stand-up comedian, actress, writer and producer (1933 - 2014)
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  • George Bernard Shaw There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Milan Kundera There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Guy Debord There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
    Guy Debord
    French philosopher (1931 - 1994)
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  • Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle There is nothing one sees oftener than the ridiculous and magnificent, such close neighbors that they touch.
    Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
    French author (1657 - 1757)
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  • George Moore There is nothing so consoling as to find one's neighbor's troubles are at least as great as one's own.
    George Moore
    Irish writer (1852 - 1933)
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