Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1081 till 1100 of 1547.

  • John Ruskin The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
    John Ruskin
    English art critic (1819 - 1900)
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  • George E. Mueller The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
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  • Giordano Bruno The beginning, middle, and end of the birth, growth, and perfection of whatever we behold is from contraries, by contraries, and to contraries; and whatever contrariety is, there is action and reaction, there is motion, diversity, multitude, and order, there are degrees, succession and vicissitude.
    Giordano Bruno
    Italian philosopher and priest (1548 - 1600)
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  • Abigail Van Buren The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
    Abigail Van Buren
    American advice columnist and radio show host (1918 - 2013)
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  • Napoleon Hill The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville The best laws cannot make a constitution work in spite of morals; morals can turn the worst laws to advantage. That is a commonplace truth, but one to which my studies are always bringing me back. It is the central point in my conception. I see it at the end of all my reflections.
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Bill Simmons The best under-the-radar rivalry is Dodgers-Giants. I had no idea how deep that one was until I moved to California... that one goes waaaaaaaaay back, and both sides absolutely detest each other. Fights in the stands, fights in the parking lot, the whole thing. It's every bit as bitter as Yankees-Red Sox without nearly the same hype.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Anita Desai The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
    Anita Desai
    Indian novelist (1937 - )
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  • Lord George Byron The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Italo Calvino The catalogue of forms is endless: until every shape has found its city, new cities will continue to be born. When the forms exhaust their variety and come apart, the end of cities begins.
    Italo Calvino
    Italian writer (1923 - 1985)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • William Adams Brown The church exists to train its member through the practice of the presence of God to be servants of others, to the end that Christlikeness may become common property.
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  • Vance Havner The church is so subnormal that if it ever got back to the New Testament normal it would seem to people to be abnormal.
    Vance Havner
    American writer
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  • Billy Corgan The closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets.
    In: Stapleton, Jim. Smashing Pumpkins (1996)
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • Karl Kraus The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
    Karl Kraus
    Austrian writer and journalist (1874 - 1936)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Thomas Carlyle The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Sigmund Freud The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Ann Veneman The cows have ID numbers. And we should be able, throughout the investigation, which is ongoing as we speak, to be able to track that cow back to where it came from initially.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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