Quotes with wrong-doing

Quotes 941 till 960 of 1363.

  • Britt Ekland The idea of doing theatre always terrified me because I get terrible stage fright. In the early 1970s I was offered a panto but the thought of going on stage was just too mortifying.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a great variety of obvious things is an illusion natural to dull minds.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Francis Bacon The images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Sir Richard Steele The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Alija Izetbegovic The international community is pushing things forward in Bosnia... but it is doing it at expense of the Muslim people. I feel it as an injustice, these are the things that I cannot live with.
    Alija Izetbegovic
    Bosnian politician
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  • Barry Eisler The Internet is a limitless library at your fingertips. It's a great place to start with the acquisition of knowledge. My process is to go to a place when I'm writing about it. Nothing captures the essence, feeling and flavor of a place better than when I'm actually there and doing the writing.
    Barry Eisler
    American novelist
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  • Bette Davis The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he's dead.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • T. S. Eliot The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • Caroline Dhavernas The little boy, Spencer Breslin, it was just so great to have a kid on set. He is talented, he's a pro. He's been doing this for years, I think he started when he was four or five.
    Caroline Dhavernas
    Canadian actress (1978 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Ben Okri The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.
    Ben Okri
    Nigerian poet and novelist (1959 - )
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  • Douglas Adams The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Henrik Ibsen The majority is always wrong; the minority is rarely right.
    Henrik Ibsen
    Norwegian dramatist (1828 - 1906)
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  • Jean Paul Getty The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Serge Daney The media no longer ask those who know something to share that knowledge with the public. Instead they ask those who know nothing to represent the ignorance of the public and, in so doing, to legitimate it.
    Serge Daney
    French movie critic
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  • Benjamin Spock The more people have studied different methods of bringing up children the more they have come to the conclusion that what good mother and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is the best after all.
    Benjamin Spock
    American doctor (1903 - 1998)
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  • Jerry Gillies The more you love what you are doing, the more successful it will be for you.
    Jerry Gillies
    American writer
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  • Ben Whishaw The most amazing thing is when you find yourself watching someone in the cafe or something doing something weird. It's amazing what people do, isn't it, when you just look at them, when you take the time to look.
    Ben Whishaw
    English actor (1980 - )
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