Quotes with well-meaning

Quotes 781 till 800 of 1547.

  • Al Gore No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Channing Pollock No matter how small and unimportant what we are doing may seem, if we do it well, it may soon become the step that will lead us to better things.
    Channing Pollock
    American actor (1880 - 1946)
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  • Sir Laurence Olivier No matter how well you perform there's always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it's lousy.
    Sir Laurence Olivier
    English actor and stage director (1907 - 1989)
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  • Barbara de Angelis No matter what age you are, or what your circumstances might be, you are special, and you still have something unique to offer. Your life, because of who you are, has meaning.
    Barbara de Angelis
    American relationship consultant, lecturer and author (1951 - )
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  • Victor Hugo No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Plato No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Margaret Thatcher No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he only had good intentions. He had money as well.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • John Ruskin No person who is well bred, kind and modest is ever offensively plain; all real deformity means want for manners or of heart.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • Marcus Tullius Cicero No well-informed person ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    Roman statesman and writer (106 - 43)
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  • Bill James None of us are claiming that the statistical analysts understand the game of football as well as the football coaches do, or that our analysis should take precedence over the informed opinions of experts. I'm not saying that at all.
    Bill James
    American baseball writer, historian, and statistician (1949 - )
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  • Bill Bailey Not a very well-known fact, but on planes they always carry a trombone just in case there's a disaster and they need to keep morale up. All cabin crew - fully proficient in the trombone. And of course there's a double facility: if you ditch at sea, it can be used as a snorkel.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Bret Easton Ellis Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning.
    Bret Easton Ellis
    American author, screenwriter, short-story writer, and director (1964 - )
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  • Alcaeus of Mytilene Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.
    Alcaeus of Mytilene
    Ancient Greek poet
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  • Seneca Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Ben Jonson Not to know vice at all, and keep true state,
    Is virtue, and not fate:
    Next to that virtue is to know vice well,
    And her black spite expel.
    The Works of Ben Jonson, First Folio Epode, lines 1-4.
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Angelus Silesius Nothing can throw thee into the infernal abyss so much as this detested word - heed well! - this mine and thine.
    Angelus Silesius
    German Catholic priest and physician (1624 - 1677)
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  • Alice S. Rossi Nothing is so threatening to conventional values as a man who does not want to work or does not want to work at a challenging job, and most people are disturbed if a man in a well-paying job indicates ambivalence or dislike toward it.
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  • William Cobbett Nothing is so well calculated to produce a death-like torpor in the country as an extended system of taxation and a great national debt.
    William Cobbett
    British journalist (1763 - 1835)
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  • John Henry Newman Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.
    John Henry Newman
    English theologian (1801 - 1890)
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