Quotes with thinking--not

Quotes 3081 till 3100 of 10591.

  • Martin Luther King I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Henry David Thoreau I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
    Walden Ch 2
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Rose F. Kennedy I have always believed that God never gives a cross to bear larger than we can carry. No matter what, he wants us to be happy, not sad. Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn't we?
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  • Armistead Maupin I have always distrusted memoir. I tend to write my memoirs through my fiction. It's easier to get to the truth by not claiming that you are speaking it. Some things can be said in fiction that can never be said in memoir.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Atom Egoyan I have always felt that this story is universal. When I began to understand the details of the history, I felt that the most compelling aspect was not what happened, but what continues to happen and how it is denied.
    Atom Egoyan
    Armenian-Canadian stage and film director and writer (1960 - )
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  • Alva Myrdal I have always regarded global development as a struggle between the forces of good and evil. Not to be simplified as a struggle between Jesus and Satan, since I do not consider that the process is restricted to our own sphere of culture.
    Alva Myrdal
    Swedish sociologist, diplomat and politician (1902 - 1986)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Greg LeMond I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
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  • Assata Shakur I have been a political activist most of my life and many groups have attempted to label me as a criminal because of my outspoken beliefs. I am not a criminal and I have never been one.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Disraeli I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Abu Bakr I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
    Abu Bakr
    Companion and father-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad (573 - 634)
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  • Anne Hutchinson I have been guilty of wrong thinking.
    Anne Hutchinson
    American religious reformer and activist
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  • Adam Brody I have been in teen shows for years, so doing that stuff - kissing - is kind of commonplace and not a big deal. It was way more cool just because it was Meg Ryan.
    Adam Brody
    American actor, writer, musician, and producer (1979 - )
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  • Robert E. Lee I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Audre Lorde I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
    The Black Unicorn: Poems (1995) 22
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Augustus William Hare I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Calvin Coolidge I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Lord George Byron I have had, and may have still, a thousand friends, as they are called, in life, who are like one's partners in the waltz of this world - not much remembered when the ball is over.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • William Wycherley I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.
    William Wycherley
    British drama writer (1640 - 1715)
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  • Bernard Law Montgomery I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
    Speech in House of Lords, 24 May 1965
    Bernard Law Montgomery
    British general (1887 - 1976)
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