Quotes with semi-good

Quotes 1881 till 1900 of 2785.

  • Knute Rockne Show me a good and gracious loser and I'll show you a failure.
    Knute Rockne
    Norwegian-American football player and coach (1888 - 1931)
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  • Paul Newman Show me a good loser and I will show you a loser.
    Paul Newman
    American actor (1925 - 2008)
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  • Leo Durocher Show me a good loser and I'll show you an idiot.
    Leo Durocher
    American professional baseball player, manager and coach (1905 - 1991)
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  • Baruch Spinoza Sin cannot be conceived in a natural state, but only in a civil state, where it is decreed by common consent what is good or bad.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Calvin Harris Since I was 14, I wanted to make music, but I think I would also have made a good policeman. When I was eight, I wanted to be one so I could tell people off.
    Calvin Harris
    Scottish DJ, record producer, singer, and songwriter (1984 - )
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  • Bill Kristol Since Ronald Reagan's election in 1980, conservatives of various sorts, and conservatisms of various stripes, have generally been in the ascendancy. And a good thing, too! Conservatives have been right more often than not - and more often than liberals - about most of the important issues of the day.
    Bill Kristol
    American political analyst (1952 - )
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  • Augustus Hare Since the generality of persons act from impulse, much more than from principle, men are neither so good nor so bad as we are apt to think them.
    Augustus Hare
    English writer (1834 - 1903)
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  • Barry Cornwall Sing! Who sings To her who weareth a hundred rings? Ah, who is this lady fine? The Vine, boys, the Vine! The mother of the mighty Wine, A roamer is she O'er wall and tree And sometimes very good company.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Samuel Johnson Sir, I do not call a gamester a dishonest man; but I call him an unsociable man, an unprofitable man. Gaming is a mode of transferring property without producing any intermediate good.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William S. Burroughs So cheat your landlord if you can and must, but do not try to shortchange the Muse. It cannot be done. You can't fake quality any more than you can fake a good meal.
    William S. Burroughs
    American writer and artist (1914 - 1997)
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  • T. S. Eliot So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Lord George Byron So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Aristotle So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Bruce Springsteen So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road...
    Source: The Rising (2002) Further On (Up the Road)
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Mao Tse-Tung So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
    Mao Tse-Tung
    Chinese politician (1893 - 1976)
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  • Stephen Hawking So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.
    Source: Into The Universe with Stephen Hawking (2010)
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Boethius So nothing is ever good or bad unless you think it so, and vice versa. All luck is good luck to the man who bears it with equanimity.
    Boethius
    Roman senator, consul, magister officiorum, and philosopher (480 - 524)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson So of cheerfulness, or a good temper, the more it is spent, the more it remains.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Abdullah Ahmad Badawi So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.
    Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
    Malaysian politician (1939 - )
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  • Bob Inglis So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.
    Bob Inglis
    American politician (1959 - )
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All semi-good famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 95)