Much Quotes
39099 quotes by 14592 authors
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As for disappointing them I should not so much mind; but I can't abide to disappoint myself.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a…
— Samuel Johnson
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Suicidal thinking, if serious, can be a kind of death scare, comparable to suffering a heart attack or undergoing a cancer operation. One survives such…
— Edward Hoagland
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We haven't failed. We now know a thousand things that won't work, so we are much closer to finding what will.
— Thomas A. Edison
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[I]t is a dangerous thing to ask why someone else has been given more. It is humbling - and indeed healthy - to ask why…
— Condoleezza Rice
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There is so much pressure to look a certain way in this town. But it's nice to have a little meat on you, and I…
— Jessica Biel
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The clever combatant looks to the effect of combined energy, and does not require too much from individuals. Hence his ability to pick out the…
— Sun Tzu
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The nature of man is such that people consider themselves put under an obligation as much by the benefits they confer as by those they…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Nevertheless, he must be cautious in believing and acting, and must not inspire fear of his own accord, and must proceed in a temperate manner…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The reply is, that one ought to be both feared and loved, but as it is difficult for the two to go together, it is…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had…
— Mark Twain
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You can't learn anything from saguaro cactus, from ocotillo. They are just passing through; their roots, their much heralded dormancy in the dry season, these…
— Barry Lopez
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we cannot afford to settle for being just average; we must learn as much as we can to be the best that we can. The…
— Bill Cosby
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it is inconceivable that poverty eradication can make much headway in the absence of major advances in literacy.
— Koichiro Matsuura
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I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 13 years ago-crawling along, miles under the…
— Barack Obama
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My philosophy is: It's none of my business what people say of me and think of me. I am what I am and I do…
— Anthony Hopkins
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Some people like to live without too much risk. They're satisfied leading a safe existence. This attitude of caution infiltrates into their goals. Every successful…
— Tom Platz
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Far too many bodybuilders spend too much time exercising the smaller muscle groups such as the biceps at the expense of the larger muscle groups…
— Unknown Author
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I suspect there could be life and intelligence out there in forms that we can't conceive. And there could, of course, be forms of intelligence…
— Martin Rees
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