Quotes with well-known

Quotes 381 till 400 of 1633.

  • Daisy Ashford Her name was called Lady Helena Herring and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
    Daisy Ashford
    English writer (1881 - 1972)
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  • B. W. Powe Here I find a puzzle of great beauty: Canada works well in practice, but just doesn't work out in theory.
    Towards A Canada of Light Maxims and Enigmas, p. 29
    B. W. Powe
    Canadian poet, novelist and teacher (1955 - )
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Mark Twain History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Arnold J. Toynbee History not used is nothing, for all intellectual life is action, like practical life, and if you don't use the stuff well, it might as well be dead.
    Arnold J. Toynbee
    British historian and author (1889 - 1975)
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  • Alexander Pope Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • William Shenstone Hope is a flatterer but the most upright of all parasites for she frequents the poor man's hut as well as the palace of his superior.
    William Shenstone
    English poet (1714 - 1763)
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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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  • William James How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Ernest Hemingway How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Blaise Pascal How wonderful it is that a thing so evident as the vanity of the world is so little known, that it is a strange and surprising thing to say that it is foolish to seek greatness!
    Pensees (1669)
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Maya Angelou How wonderful it is to be an American. We have known the best of times and the worst of times.
    Maya Angelou
    African-American poet and writer (1928 - 2014)
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  • Havelock Ellis However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Aaron Klug However, I should perhaps add that during the 20 years I have been back in Cambridge, I have been actively involved in the teaching of undergraduates, as well as of course supervising research students
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Blaise Pascal Human beings must be known to be loved; but Divine beings must be loved to be known.
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn Human beings yield in many situations, even important and spiritual and central ones, as long as it prolongs one's well-being.
    Aleksandr Solzjenitsyn
    Russian Novelist (1918 - 2008)
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  • Jane Austen Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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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.
    Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Margaret Thatcher I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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