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Quotes 421 till 440 of 1776.

  • Arthur Schopenhauer Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Vaclav Havel Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
    Vaclav Havel
    Czech statesman, writer and former dissident (1936 - 2011)
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  • Barack Obama Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it and to work for it and to fight for it.
    Iowa Caucus Speech (3 jan 2008)
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Richard Dawkins How can you take seriously someone who likes to believe something because he finds it 'comforting'?
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Wallace Stevens How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Coco Chanel How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.
    Coco Chanel
    French couturier (1883 - 1971)
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  • Ludwig Wittgenstein Humor is not a mood but a way of looking at the world. So if it is correct to say that humor was stamped out in Nazi Germany, that does not mean that people were not in good spirits, or anything of that sort, but something much deeper and more important.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    Austrian - English philosopher (1889 - 1951)
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  • Victor Borge Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
    Victor Borge
    Danish-American comedian, conductor, and pianist (1909 - 2000)
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  • Mohsin Hamid I actually feel that personal matters, like religion and spirituality, are things that I really discuss only with intimates. I think it's, in a way, like sexuality, something where it touches upon something very private.
    Mohsin Hamid
    British Pakistani novelist, writer (1971 - )
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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.
    Bryan Adams
    Bryan Adams
    Canadian singer, songwriter, record producer and guitarist (1959 - )
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  • Jesse Owens I always loved running - it was something you could do by yourself, and under your own power. You could go in any direction, fast or slow as you wanted, fighting the wind if you felt like it, seeking out new sights just on the strength of your feet and the courage of your lungs.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Lily Tomlin I always wondered why somebody doesn't do something about that. Then I realized I was somebody.
    Lily Tomlin
    American Comedienne (1939 - )
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  • Arthur Hays Sulzberger I am a non Zionist because the Jew, in seeking a homeland of his own, seems to me to be giving up something of infinitely greater value of the world.
    Arthur Hays Sulzberger
    American newspaper publisher (1891 - 1968)
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  • James Baldwin I am certainly convinced that it is one of the greatest impulses of mankind to arrive at something higher than a natural state.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Hermann Hesse I am fond of music I think because it is so amoral. Everything else is moral and I am after something that isn't. I have always found moralizing intolerable.
    Hermann Hesse
    German-Swiss writer, poet and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1946) (1877 - 1962)
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  • Simone Weil I am not a Catholic; but I consider the Christian idea, which has its roots in Greek thought and in the course of the centuries has nourished all of our European civilization, as something that one cannot renounce without becoming degraded.
    Simone Weil
    French philosopher (1909 - 1943)
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  • Laurence Sterne I am persuaded that every time a man smiles, but much more so when he laughs, it adds something to this fragment of life.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • Graham Swift I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
    Graham Swift
    English writer (1949 - )
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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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  • Anne Hathaway I believe I've always been a big believer in equality. No one has ever been able to tell me I couldn't do something because I was a girl.
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