Quotes with well-spent

Quotes 161 till 180 of 1460.

  • Alfred Russel Wallace As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
    Alfred Russel Wallace
    British naturalist, explorer, anthropologist and biologist (1823 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Barbara Bush At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Samuel Johnson Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • A. Bartlett Giamatti Baseball has the largest library of law and lore and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.
    Sports Illustrated, 17 April 1989
    A. Bartlett Giamatti
    American professor and president of Yale University (1938 - 1989)
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  • Bill Walton Basketball is one of those rare opportunities where you can make a difference, not only for yourself, but for other people as well.
    Bill Walton
    American basketball player (1952 - )
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  • Baruch Spinoza Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Bob Seger Be original. That's my best advice. You're going to find that there's something that you do well, and try to do it with as much originality as you can, and don't skimp on the words. Work on the words.
    Bob Seger
    American singer, songwriter and musician (1945 - )
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  • Aristotle Beauty depends on size as well as symmetry. No very small animal can be beautiful, for looking at it takes so small a portion of time that the impression of it will be confused. Nor can any very large one, for a whole view of it cannot be had at once, and so there will be no unity and completeness.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Eugène Ionesco Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.
    Eugène Ionesco
    Romanian - French writer (1909 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Brett Hull Because I don't look like I'm skating around as hard as Bobby Bassen doesn't mean my mind isn't working twice as hard as Bobby's mind. Just because I can't fight like Kelly Chase doesn't mean standing in front of the net getting cross-checked and slashed isn't toughness as well.
    Brett Hull
    Canadian-born American former ice hockey player (1964 - )
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  • Bonnie Hunt Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
    Bonnie Hunt
    American actress, comedian, director and producer (1961 - )
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  • Angela Davis Because it would be too agonizing to cope with the possibility that anyone, including our­ selves, could become a prisoner, we tend to think of the prison as disconnected from our own lives. This is even true for some of us, women as well as men, who have already experienced imprisonment.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • B. D. Wong Because of the accumulation of objects, things are never quite the way I want them to be. There has always been a lack of, well, clarity.
    B. D. Wong
    American actor (1960 - )
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  • Brandon Lee Because we do not know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. And yet everything happens only a certain number of times. And a very small number really.
    Brandon Lee
    American actor (1965 - 1993)
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  • Ben Chaplin Being an actor is well paid, but it's a bit like being a circus traveler.
    Ben Chaplin
    English actor, director and writer (1969 - )
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  • Junot Diaz Being an author is always like being a well-run dictatorship - it's all one person speaking.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Alain de Botton Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well; and requires no less practice.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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