Quotes with back-end

Quotes 881 till 900 of 1547.

  • Sydney Smith No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Oscar Wilde No man is rich enough to buy back his own past.
    Source: An Ideal Husband (1895)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • John S. Bonnell No man or woman has achieved an effective personality who is not self-disciplined. Such discipline must not be an end in itself, but must be directed to the development of resolute Christian character.
    John S. Bonnell
    American pastor
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  • Francis Bacon No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher No matter what looms ahead, if you can eat today, enjoy the sunlight today, mix good cheer with friends today, enjoy it and bless God for it. Do not look back on happiness - or dream of it in the future. You are only sure of today; do not let yourself be cheated out of it.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Lee Iacocca No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Robert Frost No memory of having starred
    Atones for later disregard,
    Or keeps the end from being hard.
    Robert Frost
    American poet (1874 - 1963)
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  • William Shakespeare No might nor greatness in mortality
    Can censure ’scape; back-wounding calumny.
    Source: Measure for Measure III, 2
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Sigmund Freud No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • William Hazlitt No wise man can have a contempt for the prejudices of others; and he should even stand in a certain awe of his own, as if they were aged parents and monitors. They may in the end prove wiser than he.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Elie Wiesel Nobody is stronger, nobody is weaker than someone who came back. There is nothing you can do to such a person because whatever you could do is less than what has already been done to him. We have already paid the price.
    Elie Wiesel
    Rumanian-born American Writer (1928 - 2016)
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  • Jerry Garcia Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, ''How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?''
    Jerry Garcia
    American singer-songwriter and guitarist (1942 - 1995)
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  • Søren Kierkegaard Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bernie Sanders Not only must we fight to end disastrous unfettered free trade agreements with China, Mexico, and other low wage countries, we must fight to fundamentally rewrite our trade agreements so that American products, not jobs, are our number one export.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Walter Pater Not the fruit of experience but experience itself, is the end.
    Walter Pater
     
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  • Alexander Pope Not to go back is somewhat to advance, and men must walk, at least, before they dance.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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  • Brooks Atkinson Nothing a man writes can please him as profoundly as something he does with his back, shoulders and hands. For writing is an artificial activity. It is a lonely and private substitute for conversation.
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
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  • Aaron Douglas Trimble Nothing's better than the wind to your back, the sun in front of you, and your friends beside you.
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  • Carrie Fisher Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form.
    Carrie Fisher
    American actress, writer and comedienne (1956 - 2016)
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