Best Well Known Qoutes
346 Well Known quotes by 313 unique authors
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Powerful women intimidate men. If she's a really well-known woman, she has a career, she's famous - in that case, men are really afraid.
— Donatella Versace
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I realized some of the pitfalls of being well-known; it was nice if you were successful, but it made it just that much harder to…
— Lawrence Welk
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It is fairly well-known what has been behind that climate change denial in America: vast sums pumped into an ignorance industry by the oil and…
— Naomi Wolf
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I'm not going to name some of my colleagues who are very well-known for their television presentation, but they wouldn't know new information or how…
— Bob Woodward
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It is well known that apes in the wild offer spontaneous assistance to each other, defending against leopards, say, or consoling distressed companions with tender…
— Frans de Waal
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Undoubtedly, our path is not of the easiest; but, just as undoubtedly, we are not to be frightened by difficulties. Paraphrasing from the well-known words…
— Joseph Stalin
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Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.
— Dag Hammarskjold
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As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to…
— Cameron Dokey
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It is a well known fact that reality has liberal bias.
— Stephen Colbert
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Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever…
— Jane Austen
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What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism'…
— Terry Jones
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Truth is a well-known pathological liar. It invariably turns out to be Fiction wearing a fancy frock. Self-proclaimed Fiction, on the other hand, is entirely…
— Alan Moore
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A celebrity is any well-known TV or movie star who looks like he spends more than two hours working on his hair.
— Steve Martin
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It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself.
— Francis Bacon
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
— H. L. Mencken
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love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers,…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We're a lukewarm people for all our feast days and hard work. Not much touches us, but we long to be touched. We lie awake…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Now, it's a fact well known to those who know it well that prophets of doom only attain popularity when they get the drinks in…
— Robert Rankin
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Yes, it's a well-known fact about you: you're like death, you take everything.
— Milan Kundera
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Power is a poison well known for thousands of years. If only no one were ever to acquire material power over others! But to the…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Fool!" cried the hunchback. "You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in…
— William Goldman
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As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies—but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most…
— David Gemmell
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If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons,…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Marriage is those two thousand indistinguishable conversations, chatted over two thousand indistuinguishable breakfasts, where intimacy turns like a slow wheel. How do you measure the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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