Quotes with petty--never

Quotes 721 till 740 of 2981.

  • Samuel Johnson Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Edmund Burke Hypocrisy can afford to be magnificent in its promises; for never intending to go beyond promises; it costs nothing.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Joan Didion I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
    Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Diana Spencer Princess of Wales I adore him… I have never been so happy. I have real love.
    Diana Spencer Princess of Wales
    British princess
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  • Bryan Adams I always knew I'd be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn't know if I'd be successful at it, but I knew I'd be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in a record store. Maybe even play in a band. I never got into this to be a star.
    Source: Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert I always voted at my party's call, and I never thought of thinking for myself at all.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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  • Art Buchwald I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team.
    Art Buchwald
    American humorist (1925 - 2007)
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  • Abraham Lincoln I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Mark Twain I am an old man and have known a great many sorrows, but most of them never happened.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Richard Dawkins I am baffled by the way sophisticated theologians who know Adam and Eve never existed still keep talking about it.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Stephen Hawking I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these 'how' and 'why' questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Anna Sewell I am never afraid of what I know.
    Anna Sewell
    English novelist (1820 - 1878)
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  • Edward F. Halifax I am of an Opinion, in which I am every Day more confirmed by Observation, that Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with Men, or else all the Obligations in the World will not create it. An outward Show may be made to satisfy Decency, and to prevent Reproach; but a real Sense of a kind thing is a Gift of Nature, and never was, nor can be acquired.
    Source: Works (1912)
    Edward F. Halifax
    British Conservative Statesman (1881 - 1959)
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  • Buck Owens I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do and I ain't never gonna do it any different. I don't care who likes it and who don't.
    Buck Owens
    American musician, singer, songwriter (1929 - 2006)
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  • Queen Elizabeth I I am your anointed Queen. I will never be by violence constrained to do anything. I thank God I am endued with such qualities that if I were turned out of the Realm in my petticoat I were able to live in any place in Christendom.
    Queen Elizabeth I
    Queen of England and Ireland (1533 - 1603)
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  • Arsene Wenger I am, of course, delighted but there was never any doubt about Sol staying.
    Arsene Wenger
    French football manager and former player (1949 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Aaliyah I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
    Aaliyah
    American singer, actress and model (1979 - 2001)
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  • Bill Clinton I believe I'm a better authority than anybody else in America on my own wife. I have never known a person with a stronger sense of right and wrong in my life ever.
    Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton
    Bill Clinton
    President of the US (1946 - )
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