Quotes with petty--never

Quotes 2801 till 2820 of 2981.

  • George Eliot Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Will Rogers Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners, and things, that never have been, or are likely to be.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Catherine Drinker Bowen Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them.
    Catherine Drinker Bowen
    American writer
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  • Siri Hustvedt Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
    A Plea for Eros (2007) 41
    Siri Hustvedt
    American novelist and essayist (1955 - )
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  • Bob Shacochis Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy.
    Bob Shacochis
    American writer (1951 - )
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  • Iris Murdoch Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
    Iris Murdoch
    Anglo-Irish novelist and philosopher (1919 - 1999)
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Yes, my life is a life of combat; I can say that this has never stopped for a single instant. It is a combat that started for me at the age of 16. I'm 90 years old now, and my motivation hasn't changed; it's the same fervour that drives me.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Ben Elton Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.
    Ben Elton
    British-Australian comedian, author, playwright, actor and director (1959 - )
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  • John Adams Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States.''
    John Adams
    President of the USA (2nd) (1735 - 1826)
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  • Germaine Greer Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Beau Willimon You always want to try, in everything you do, to attempt something you've never tried before, and the only way to succeed at that is through failure, and the only way to succeed through failure is just banging your head against the wall over and over until you get to that interesting thing on the other side.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Malcolm X You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Richard Bach You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • James R. Cook You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.
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  • C. S. Lewis You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Les Brown You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Kofi Annan You are never too young to lead and you should never doubt your capacity to triumph where others have not.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • Hermann Hesse You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Arundhati Roy You begin to realize that hypocrisy is not a terrible thing when you see what overt fascism is compared to sort of covert, you know, communal politics which the Congress has never been shy of indulging in.
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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