Quotes with worth-while

Quotes 721 till 740 of 1020.

  • Barbara Ehrenreich The truth is, many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Socrates The unexamined life is not worth living.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Tom Morris The unlived life is not worth examining.
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  • Babe Ruth The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Buzz Aldrin The way I see it, commercial interests should manage a lunar base while NASA gets on with the really important task of flying to Mars.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Junot Diaz The whole culture is telling you to hurry, while the art tells you to take your time. Always listen to the art.
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Plutarch The whole life is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.
    Plutarch
    Greek biographer and essayist (46 - 120)
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  • Wilferd Arlan Peterson The wise man realistically accepts as part of life and builds a philosophy to meet them and make the most of them. He lives on the principle of ''nothing attempted, nothing gained'' and is resolved that if he fails he is going to fail while trying to succeed.
    Wilferd Arlan Peterson
    American author (1900 - 1995)
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  • Casey Wilson The woman I'd want to meet the most is Nicole Holofcener. I've loved every single film she's done. I think her films are deeply comedic while being deeply disturbing and dark.
    Casey Wilson
    American actress, comedian, and screenwriter (1980 - )
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  • C. S. Forester The work is with me when I wake up in the morning; it is with me while I eat my breakfast in bed and run through the newspaper, while I shave and bathe and dress.
    C. S. Forester
    English novelist (1899 - 1966)
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  • Patricia Clifford The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work.
    Patricia Clifford
    American film producer
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  • Abraham Lincoln The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing.... The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. Plainly the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a d
    Address at Sanitary Fair, Baltimore, Md., 18 April 1864
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The world is a fine place worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Bill Hicks The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they sa
    Bill Hicks
    American stand-up comedian, social critic, satirist and musician (1961 - 1994)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Milan Kundera The worth of a human being lies in the ability to extend oneself, to go outside oneself, to exist in and for other people.
    Milan Kundera
    Tsjech writer and criticus (1929 - 2023)
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it - a State which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes - will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • J. Adams The worth of everey conviction consists precisely in the steadfastness with which it is held.
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  • John Stuart Mill The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
    John Stuart Mill
    English economist (1806 - 1873)
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  • Bobby McFerrin Then I came up with this crazy idea just to walk out on the stage with no band at all and just start singing whatever came to mind. I actually fought the idea for a while because it seemed almost too radical, but it became obvious what I was supposed to be doing.
    Bobby McFerrin
    American jazz vocalist (1950 - )
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