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some Quotes
- A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an...
- A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -...
- A day out-of-doors, someone I loved to talk with, a good book and some simple food and music -...
- A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance. Observe how the...
- A painter told me that nobody could draw a tree without in some sort becoming a tree; or draw...
- A simple fact that is hard to learn is that the time to save money is when you have...
- A very large amount of human suffering and frustration is caused by the fact that many men and women...
- A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how...
- A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day....
- About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you....
- Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience. ...
- After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would...
- Age does not make us childish, as some say; it only finds us true children still. ...
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ...
- Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age. ...
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community...
- Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest. ...
- Always have some project under way . . . an ongoing project that goes over from day to day...
- An educated man ... is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in...
- An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and...
- Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a person of some sense to know how to lie...
- Anyone who has begun to think places some portion of the world in jeopardy. ...
- Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live...
- Art can only be truly Art by presenting an adequate outward symbol of some fact in the interior life....
- As an adolescent ... I was convinced that France would have to go through gigantic trials, that the interest...
- As an atheist you have to rationalize things... Then you have to try and make some sort of sense...
- At a certain age some people's minds close up; they live on their intellectual fat. ...
- At least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is permitted,...
- At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, said the gentleman, taking up a pen, it is more...
- Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected. ...
- Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and...
- Be not forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares. ...
- Books give not wisdome where none was before, But where some is, there reading makes it more. ...
- But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are...
- Class has a sense of humor. It knows that a good laugh is the best lubricant for oiling the...
- Come live with me, and be my love, And we will some new pleasures prove Of golden sands, and...
- Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks: Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous...
- Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It...
- Decide on some imperfect Somebody and you will win, because the truest truism in politics is: You can't beat...
- Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. ...
- Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the...
- Dream is not a revelation. If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the...
- Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some...
- Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach...
- Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ...
- Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest...
- Every man I meet is in some way my superior. ...
- Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others. ...
- Everyone knows that a man can always marry even if he reaches 102, is penniless, and has all his...
- Everything is funny as long as it is happening to some one else. ...
- Existence, as we know it, is full of sorrow. To mention only one minor point: every man is a...
- False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if...
- Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no...
- Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy. ...
- Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody. ...
- From one Soul of the Universe are all Souls derived. . .Of these Souls there are many changes, some...
- From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some...
- From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in...
- From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. ...
- God's people have no assurances that the dark experiences of life will be held at bay, much less that...
- Habits...the only reason they persist is that they are offering some satisfaction...You allow them to persist by not seeking...
- Had I been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better ordering of...
- Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no...
- Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some...
- He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. ...
- Heaven always bears some proportion to earth. The god of the cannibal will be a cannibal, of the crusades...
- History makes us some amends for the shortness of life. ...
- However gradual the course of history, there must always be the day, even an hour and minute, when some...
- Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention....
- I believe a man is born first unto himself-for the happy developing of himself, while the world is a...
- I bless the Lord that all our troubles come through Christ's fingers, and that He casteth sugar among them;...
- I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul when a...
- I do not come into this pulpit hoping that perhaps somebody will of his own free will return to...
- I do not like poems that resemble hay compressed into a geometrically perfect cube. I like it when the...
- I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by...
- I don't believe anything. I only know some things to a greater degree of certainty than others. - from...
- I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New...
- I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the...
- I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of...
- I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. ...
- I know some good marriages - marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by...
- I made some mistakes in drama. I thought the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when...
- I never have a realistic sense of self. I either think everything I do is terrible and I'm the...
- I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by...
- I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life spell, And by and by my Soul...
- I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears...
- I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ...
- I think we ought always to entertain our opinions with some measure of doubt. I shouldn't wish people dogmatically...
- I used to think that the Civil War was our country's greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there...
- I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories...
- I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, I'd like some fries. The girl at the counter said, Would...
- I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will...
- If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence...
- If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not...
- If I thought there was some reason to be concerned about them, I wouldn't be sleeping in this house...
- If heaven made him, earth can find some use for him. ...
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be...
- If one looks with a cold eye at the mess man has made of history, it is difficult to...
- If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who,...
- If there is anything more dangerous to the life of the mind than having no independent commitment to ideas,...
- If you are faced with an unpleasant person or situation that you can do nothing about, bless the situation....
- If you can impress any man with an absorbing conviction of the supreme importance of some moral or religious...
- If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give...
- If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. You...
- If you want to succeed in the world you must make your own opportunities as you go on. The...
- If you're driving down the highway in the middle of the night and you see a sign that says...
- In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These...
- In Britain, the segregated world of public schools crops up in all kinds of institutions: A boy can pass...
- In England every man you meet is some man's son; in America, he may be some man's father. ...
- In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment...
- In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an...
- In some attempts, it is glorious even to fail. ...
- In the realm of ideas it is better to let the mind sally forth, even if some precious preconceptions...
- Innumerable voices have been asserting for some time now that human society is passing through a crisis, that its...
- Insofar as I may be heard by anything, which may or may not care what I say, I ask,...
- Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to...
- It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ...
- It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and...
- It is discouraging to try and penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance...
- It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance...
- It is in this unearthly first hour of spring twilight that earth's almost agonized livingness is most felt. This...
- It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished...
- It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a...
- It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, I'm earning enough to support my family....
- It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on...
- It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when it is...
- It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time....
- It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but...
- It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values - the charming little clothy box of the...
- It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture...
- It was all right to talk about it. They made plans. They had a moment's vision, a fleeting dream....
- It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to...
- It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some...
- It's better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. ...
- I've often wondered how some people in positions of this kind ... manage without having had any acting experience....
- Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have had years and years of training can,...
- Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people. Nor for others, easier. ...
- Leaders come in many forms, with many styles and diverse qualities. There are quiet leaders and leaders one can...
- Let me advise thee not to talk of thyself as being old. There is something in Mind Cure, after...
- Life becomes religious whenever we make it so: when some new light is seen, when some deeper appreciation is...
- Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If...
- Life is very nice, but it lacks form. It's the aim of art to give it some. ...
- Life just isn't worth living unless you're willing to take some big chances and go for broke. ...
- Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it , you will live along some distant day into...
- Living next to you is in some ways like sleeping with an elephant. No matter how friendly and even-tempered...
- Love is the answer, but while you are waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions. ...
- Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once...
- Love is the extra effort we make in our dealings with those whom we do not like and once...
- Many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them...
- Many people hear voices when no-one is there. Some of them are called mad and are shut up on...
- Measure not God's love and favour by your own feeling. The sun shines as clearly in the darkest day...
- Men are like wine some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. ...
- Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a...
- Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till some one dash...
- Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom. ...
- Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master. ...
- Most people die at the last minute; others 20 years beforehand, some even earlier. They are the wretched of...
- Most successful men have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They...
- Music is a medicine for many... Silence is a poison for some... ...
- My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am...
- No love, no friendship Can cross the path of our destiny Without leaving some mark on it forever. ...
- No matter how big a nation is, it is no stronger that its weakest people, and as long as...
- No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of...
- No vision and you perish; No Ideal, and you're lost; Your heart must ever cherish Some faith at any...
- Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. ...
- Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectations. ...
- Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others. ...
- Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are...
- Nothing of importance is ever achieved without discipline. I feel myself sometimes not wholly in sympathy with some modern...
- Of all tyrannies a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may...
- Of course life is bizarre, the more bizarre it gets, the more interesting it is. The only way to...
- Oh, welcome to this world of fools, of pink champagne and swimming pools, where all you have to lose...
- On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. ...
- On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an abstract world-art, or philosophy,...
- One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put...
- Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure....
- Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of Christ. Had God...
- Paul was to know and proclaim God's will, His purpose, in view of Israel's rejection of christ. Had god...
- People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a...
- People who are too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful and feel less competent...
- People who soar are those who refuse to sit back, sigh and wish things would change. They neither complain...
- Play is a uniquely adaptive act, not subordinate to some other adaptive act, but with a special function of...
- Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at...
- Rarely do we find men who willingly to engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest...
- Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all...
- Relationships - of all kinds - are like sand held in your hand. Held loosely, with an open hand,...
- Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others. ...
- Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is always...
- Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ...
- Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one...
- Some Americans need hyphens in their names because only part of them has come over. ...
- Some books are to be tasted, others swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. ...
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. ...
- Some disguised deceits counterfeit truth so perfectly that not to be taken in by them would be an error...
- Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. ...
- Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner. ...
- Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ...
- Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away. ...
- Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you...
- Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; While others, on the contrary, obtain...
- Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is...
- Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men...
- Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why...
- Some men see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say Why...
- Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute,...
- Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way...
- Some natural skepticism as to the purity of all human motives came and sat upon my chest... ...
- Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is...
- Some of the most rewarding and beautiful moments of a friendship happen in the unforeseen open spaces between planned...
- Some of the waiters discuss the menu with you as if they were sharing wisdom picked up in the...
- Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible. ...
- Some of us just go along . . . until that marvelous day people stop intimidating us - or...
- Some of your countrymen were unable to distinguish between their native dislike for war and the stainless patriotism of...
- Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot; others transform a yellow spot into the sun. ...
- Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ...
- Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses. ...
- Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people...
- Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ...
- Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live. ...
- Some people are so dry that you might soak them in a joke for a month and it would...
- Some people are so much sunshine to the square inch. ...
- Some people claim that marriage interferes with romance. There's no doubt about it. Anytime you have a romance, your...
- Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Some people move our souls to dance. They awaken us...
- Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic. ...
- Some people drink from the fountain of knowledge, others just gargle. ...
- Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith [but] they are afflictions,...
- Some people get an eduction without going to college; the rest get it after they get out. ...
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ...
- Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. ...
- Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. ...
- Some people just don't seem to realize, when they're moaning about not getting prayers answered, that no is the...
- Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ...
- Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it. ...
- Some people lose all respect for the lion unless he devours them instantly. There is no pleasing some people....
- Some people never say the words 'I love you' It's not their style to be so bold. Some people...
- Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. ...
- Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask,...
- Some people seem as if they can never have been children, and others seem as if they could never...
- Some people take more care to hide their wisdom than their folly. ...
- Some people talk because they think sound is more manageable than silence. ...
- Some people talk in their sleep. Lecturers talk while other people sleep. ...
- Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I don't like that attitude. I can assure...
- Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to...
- Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it. ...
- Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ...
- Some persons are likeable in spite of their unswerving integrity. ...
- Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above...
- Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above...
- Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided...
- Some say it will bring war to the heavens, but its purpose is to deter war, in the heavens...
- Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We...
- Some things arrive on their own mysterious hour, on their own terms and not yours, to be seized or...
- Some things have to be believed to be seen. ...
- Some things have to be believed to be seen. ...
- Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak...
- Sometimes I get the feeling that the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not...
- Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality. ...
- The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not...
- The Great Spirit, who made all things, made every thing for some use, and whatever use he designed anything...
- The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do...
- The brown bag, of course, had its imperfections. While some kids carried roast beef sandwiches, others had peanut butter....
- The chimerical pursuit of perfection is always linked to some important deficiency, frequently the inability to love. ...
- The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest...
- The curse of me & my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action...
- The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I...
- The echo began in some indescribable way to undermine her hold on life. Coming at a moment when she...
- The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little...
- The elective system ... offered a bewildering freedom of choice, leaving some graduates with the impression that they had...
- The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none. Recognizing our limitations and imperfections is the first...
- The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested,...
- The historian must have some conceptions of how men who are not historians behave. ...
- The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests...
- The ideal life is in our blood and never will be still. Sad will be the day for any...
- The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas. It is better to...
- The networks are not some chicken-coop manufacturing lobby whose calls nobody returns. ...
- The only possible conclusion that social sciences can draw is: some do, some don't. ...
- The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory. ...
- The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked. ...
- The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to...
- The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if...
- The question of whether it's God's green earth is not at center stage, except in the sense that if...
- The real 196s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963....It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some...
- The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance...
- The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental...
- The student who invades an administration building, roughs up a dean, rifles the files and issues “nonnegotiable demands” may...
- The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super personal force:...
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