Quotes 261 till 280 of 3662.
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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
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A man who has never lost himself in a cause bigger than himself has missed one of life's mountaintop experiences. Only in losing himself does he find himself. Only then does he discover all the latent strengths he never knew he had and which otherwise would have remained dormant.
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A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of better men than himself.
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A man with few friends is only halfdeveloped; there are whole sides of his nature which are locked up and have never been expressed.
Source: Youth and life (1913) -
A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
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A man's personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
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A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
Source: Saint Joan (1924) -
A modern writer likens coquettes to those hunters who do not eat the game which they have successfully pursued.
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A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance.
Source: inaugurele rede 14-8-1947 -
A monarchy is a merchantman which sails well, but will sometimes strike on a rock, and go to the bottom; a republic is a raft which will never sink, but then your feet are always in the water.
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A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.
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A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
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A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.
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A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists. Each of the chemical elements is a pattern integrity. Each individual is a pattern integrity. The pattern integrity of the human individual is evolutionary and not static.
Source: Synergetics: Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking (1975) Pattern Integrity 505.201― Richard Buckminster Fuller
American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983) -
A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
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A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then be satisfied with small gains, which will come by creative adaptations.
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