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"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. ... What do you want-an adorable pancreas?" Jean Kerr 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I've had enough success for two lifetimes, My success is talent put together with hard work and luck." Kareem Abdul-Jabar 4.1735 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it." Heroditus 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If a society is to preserve stability and a degree of continuity, it must learn how to keep its adolescents from imposing their tastes, values, and fantasies on everyday life." Eric Hoffer 4.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If any human being earnestly desire to push on to new discoveries instead of just retaining and using the old; to win victories over Nature as a worker rather than over hostile critics as a disputant; to attain , in fact, clear and demonstrative knowlegde instead of attractive and probable theory; we invite him as a true son of Science to join our ranks." Sir Francis Bacon 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If I ever do a book on the Amazon, I hope I am able to bring a certain lightheartedness to the subject, in a way that will tell the reader we are going to have fun with this thing." Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 2.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent." Sir Isaac Newton 4.8000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this: Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, "I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me." Ann Landers 4.2000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability." Henry Ford 4.5263 average rating Rate this Quote
"If someone told me it wasn't 'fashionable' to talk about freedom, I think I'd just have to look him square in the eye and say, 'Okay, YOU TELL ME what's `fashionable'.' But he won't. And you know why? Because you can't ask someone what's fashionable in a smart-alecky way like that. You have to be friendly and say, 'By the way, what's fashionable?'" Jack Handey [Deep Thoughts] 3.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism." Marquis de Sade 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"If we did all the things we were capable of doing, We would literally astound ourselves." Thomas Alva Edison 4.9333 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise." Robert Fritz 4.7826 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible mark our actions and demeanor. A tranquility of bearing, a facial and bodily repose, are observed in those whose inner lives are thus enriched. . . . Properly understood, prayer is a mature activity indispensable to the fullest development of personality . . . . Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strengths." Alexis Carrel 4.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you." Ken Flaton Rate this Quote
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable." Benjamin Franklin 3.6667 average rating Rate this Quote
"If you would stand well with a great mind, leave him with a favorable impression of yourself; if with a little mind, leave him with a favorable impression of himself." Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rate this Quote
"If you're able to be yourself, then you have no competition. All you have to do is get closer and closer to that essence." Barbara Cook 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance." Dr. Samuel Johnson 4.3333 average rating Rate this Quote
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