Quotes with worth-while

Quotes 741 till 760 of 1020.

  • Henry Louis Mencken Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Ann Oakley There are always women who will take men on their own terms. If I were a man I wouldn't bother to change while there are women like that around.
    Ann Oakley
    British sociologist, writer (1944 - )
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  • Vladimir Nabokov There are aphorisms that, like airplanes, stay up only while they are in motion.
    Vladimir Nabokov
    American writer and poet (1899 - 1977)
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  • Cate Blanchett There are certain things in ancient practices that are not worth adhering to.
    Cate Blanchett
    Australian actress and theatre (1969 - )
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  • Bruce Campbell There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
    Bruce Campbell
    American actor, writer and director (1958 - )
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  • Henry van Dyke There are two good rules which ought to be written on every heart; never to believe anything bad about anybody unless you positively know it to be true; and never to tell that unless you feel that it is absolutely necessary, and that God is listening while you tell it.
    Henry van Dyke
    American Protestant Clergyman and Writer (1852 - 1933)
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  • Adolph P. Gouthey There are two great forces in this world - good and evil; and no man is worth his salt unless he has lost and won battle for a principle.
    Adolph P. Gouthey
    American writer
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  • Pearl Bailey There are two kinds of talent, man-made talent and God-given talent. With man-made talent you have to work very hard. With God-given talent, you just touch it up once in a while.
    Pearl Bailey
    American actress (1918 - 1990)
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  • Theodore Roosevelt There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Francoise D'Aubegne Maintenon There is an important difference between love and friendship. While the former delights in extremes and opposites, the latter demands equality.
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  • James Russell Lowell There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual.
    James Russell Lowell
    American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat (1819 - 1891)
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  • Thomas Hobbes There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
    Thomas Hobbes
    British philosopher (1588 - 1679)
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  • Alain de Botton There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Martin Luther King There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth losing a job for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • George Santayana There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • James Boswell There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
    James Boswell
    Scottish biographer and diarist (1740 - 1795)
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  • Sir Arthur Helps There is the silent criticism of silence, worth all the rest.
    Friends in Council II, ch. 2
    Sir Arthur Helps
    English writer and dean of the Privy Council (1813 - 1875)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher There never was a person who did anything worth doing, who did not receive more than he gave.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lydia Davis There seemed to be three choices: to give up trying to love anyone, to stop being selfish, or to learn to love a person while continuing to be selfish.
    Lydia Davis
    American writer (1947 - )
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  • John Kenneth Galbraith There's a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
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