Quotes 5441 till 5460 of 6532.
-
To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.
-
To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground.
-
To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.
-
To the real artist in humanity, what are called bad manners are often the most picturesque and significant of all.
-
To this day the Arab influence is evident in southern Italy, northern Africa and, above all, in Spain.
-
To this day, just always treat people the way you want to be treated. Whether it's family or friends or co-workers, I think it's the most important thing. Whether you have success or don't have it, whether you're a good person is all that matters.
-
To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.
-
To us Americans much has been given; of us much is required. With all our faults and mistakes, it is our strength in support of the freedom our forefathers loved which has saved mankind from subjection to totalitarian power.
-
To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
-
To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.
-
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then go to hell after all would be too damn hard.
-
To work hard, to live hard, to die hard, and then to go to hell after all would be too damned hard.
-
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
Source: (2011) -
To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
Source: Zelf-interview over This Side of Paradise -
To-day, the road all runners come,
Shoulder-high, we bring you home,
And set you at your threshold down,
Townsman of a stiller town.Source: A Shropshire Lad (1896) No. 19 (To an Athlete Dying Young), st. 2 -
Today 80 percent of all the oil that comes out of the Gulf is from 1,000 feet or more and today almost a third of it is more than 5,000 feet below the surface. What hasn't happened is the safety and the ability to respond to a negative event such as this blowout, has been far outrun by the technology of drilling itself. We need to close that gap.
-
Today enormous effort goes into convincing the American public that we're just consumers of media manipulation and sound-bites and spin doctors. That we care only about ourselves, money, and stuff. That acting out of passion and conviction doesn't make a difference. But all history shows that it does.
-
Today everyone is a star - they're all billed as 'starring' or 'also starring'. In my day, we earned that recognition.
-
Today we say that the law of relativity is supposed to be true at all energies, but someday somebody may come along and say how stupid we were.
All all-black famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 273)
