Foolishly Quotes
85 quotes by 76 authors
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I also made two very important discoveries as time went on. In the first place, I discovered that making money was easy. I had been…
— Peace Pilgrim
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I thought foolishly that Freudian psychoanalysis was deeper and more intensive than other, more directive forms of therapy, so I was trained in it and…
— Albert Ellis
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It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one…
— Og Mandino
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Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.
— George Will
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If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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I believe that the first test of a great man is his humility. I don't mean by humility, doubt of his power. But really great…
— John Ruskin
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The greatest patriotism is to tell your country when it is behaving dishonorably, foolishly, viciously.
— Julian Barnes
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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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But a slow, deeply satisfied smile came over him, and his breath quickened. 'So softly it starts,' he whispered. 'Foolishly clever and with an unsurvivable…
— Kim Harrison
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The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.
— William Shakespeare
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I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural…
— Jane Austen
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No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying…
— Bertrand Russell
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And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man's brain is mocked by a body that still longs…
— Meg Rosoff
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Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but…
— Martin Luther
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What's this about?" "Finally. Interest," was the only response. "If this is one of your tricks..." Like the time Torin had ordered hundreds of blow-up…
— Gena Showalter
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I felt like one who wants to trap and cage a little bird, and after years of waiting and luring and baiting finds that she…
— Elizabeth Wein
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