Quotes with well-meaning

Quotes 1181 till 1200 of 1547.

  • Miguel de Cervantes Thou camest out of thy mother's belly without government, thou hast liv'd hitherto without government, and thou mayst be carried to thy long home without government, when it shall please the Lord. How many people in this world live without government, yet do well enough, and are well look'd upon?
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges Nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment. 'Tis thought and digestion which makes books serviceable, and give health and vigor to the mind.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Boris Yeltsin Thousands of mercenaries, who have trained in camps on the territory of Chechnya as well as come in from abroad, are actually preparing to impose extremist ideas on the whole world.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Barbara Bush Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Carol Loomis Throughout his remarkable business and government career, Robert Rubin, now 65, has both worked exhaustively at reaching well-founded conclusions and rejected the idea that anything - and he means anything - can be a 'provable certainty.'
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Abraham Cowley Thus each extreme to equal danger tends, Plenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
    Abraham Cowley
    English poet (1618 - 1667)
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  • Florence King Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind. We wallow in nostalgia but manage to get it all wrong. True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories... but American-style nostalgia is about as ephemeral as copyrighted déjà vu.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Leo Buscaglia Time has no meaning in itself unless we choose to give it significance.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Robert Half Time spent on hiring is time well spent.
    Robert Half
    American businessman, founder of Robert Half HR consulting firm
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  • Arvo Part Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers - in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Plautus To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Anatoly Karpov To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player; one has to be a strong human being as well.
    Anatoly Karpov
    Russian chess grandmaster (1951 - 1951)
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  • Albert Camus To correct a natural indifference I was placed half-way between misery and the sun. Misery kept me from believing that all was well under the sun, and the sun taught me that history wasn't everything.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion.
    Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington
    Irish military leader and statesman, defeated Napoleon (1769 - 1852)
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • Barbara Walters To feel valued, to know, even if only once in a while, that you can do a job well is an absolutely marvelous feeling.
    Barbara Walters
    American journalist and author (1929 - )
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  • Abraham Kaplan To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, What would the world be like if it were true? The operationist asks, What would we have to do to come to believe it? For the pragmatist the question is, What would we do if did believe it?
    The Conduct of Inquiry
    Abraham Kaplan
    American philosopher
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  • Albert Camus To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Confucius To know is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Kofi Annan To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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