Amuse Quotes
161 quotes by 149 authors
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest; not to amuse myself with…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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I'm undaunted in my quest to amuse myself by constantly changing my hair.
— Hillary Clinton
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That one must do some work seriously and must be independent and not merely amuse oneself in life-this our mother [Marie Curie] has told us…
— Irene Joliot-Curie
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One set of messages of the society we live in is: Consume. Grow. Do what you want. Amuse yourselves. The very working of this economic…
— Susan Sontag
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... the first thing his education demands is the provision of an environment in which he can develop the powers given him by nature. This…
— Maria Montessori
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Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they…
— Swami Vivekananda
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
— Seneca the Elder
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Science can amuse and fascinate us all, but it is engineering that changes the world.
— Isaac Asimov
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Don't think you can...know you can! Your human body is the most impressive tool that you will ever own. Even if you can't control everything...you…
— Jeff Hardy
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Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to…
— Joseph de Maistre
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Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of…
— Isaac Asimov
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There are endless ways to amuse oneself and be idle, and most of them lie outside the woods. I assume that when a man goes…
— Wendell Berry
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
— Seneca the Younger
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America is said to have the highest per capita boredom of any spot on earth! We know that because we have the greatest number of…
— Billy Graham
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Blessed are those who do not fear solitude, who are not afraid of their own company, who are not always desperately looking for something to…
— Paulo Coelho
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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you…
— George Bernard Shaw
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There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall,…
— Edmund Burke
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I am always surprised at all the things people read into my photos, but it also amuse me. That may be because I have nothing…
— Cindy Sherman
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