Quotes with petty--never

Quotes 1441 till 1460 of 2981.

  • B. C. Forbes Many of the most successful men I have known have never grown up. They have retained bubbling-over boyishness. They have relished wit, they have indulged in humor. They have not allowed dignity to depress them into moroseness. Youthfulnesss of spirit is the twin brother of optimism, and optimism is the stuff of which American business success is fashioned. Resist growing up!
    B. C. Forbes
    American Publisher (1880 - 1954)
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  • Bob Woodward Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Algernon Sydney Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
    Algernon Sydney
    English politician (1623 - 1683)
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  • Billy Wilder Marilyn [Monroe] was mean. Terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever met around this town. I have never met anybody as mean as Marilyn Monroe nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.
    The Show Business Nobody Knows (1971)
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Albert Camus Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Erickson Materialism has never been so ominous as now in North America, as management takes over.
    Arthur Erickson
    Canadian architect and urban (1924 - 2009)
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  • Bertrand Russell Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower May we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Margaret Drabble Men and women can never be close. They can hardly speak to one another in the same language. But are compelled, forever, to try, and therefore even in defeat there is no peace.
    The Middle Ground (2013) 103
    Margaret Drabble
    English novelist, biographer, and critic (1939 - )
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  • Erica Jong Men and women, women and men; it will never work.
    Erica Jong
    American author (1942 - )
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  • John Ruskin Men are more evanescent than pictures, yet one sorrows for lost friends, and pictures are my friends. I have none others. I am never long enough with men to attach myself to them; and whatever feelings of attachment I have are to material things.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Albert Camus Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Andrew Cohen Men are recognizing that they have been forced to conform to a very narrow and rather two-dimensional picture of maleness and manhood that they have never had the freedom to question.
    Andrew Cohen
    American spiritual teacher (1955 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Men know that women are an over-match for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Camille Paglia Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.
    Pensees
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Blaise Pascal Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • William Arthur Ward Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Queen Victoria Men never think, at least seldom think, what a hard task it is for us women to go through this very often. God's will be done, and if He decrees that we are to have a great number of children why we must try to bring them up as useful and exemplary members of society.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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