Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1281 till 1300 of 1547.

  • T. S. Eliot Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • C. V. Raman To an observer situated on the moon or on one of the planets, the most noticeable feature on the surface of our globe would no doubt be the large areas covered by oceanic water. The sunlit face of the earth would appear to shine by the light diffused back into space from the land and water-covered areas.
    C. V. Raman
    Indian physicist (1888 - 1970)
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  • Havelock Ellis To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.
    Havelock Ellis
    British psychologist (1859 - 1939)
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  • Samuel Johnson To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • William Shakespeare To be or not to be that is the question. Whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or take up arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing them, end them.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be truly happy is a question of how we begin, and not how we end, of what we want and not what we have.
    Source: The Complete Works (2015)
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • Robert Louis Stevenson To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    Scottish writer and poet (1850 - 1894)
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  • William Shakespeare To be, or not to be; that is the question;
    Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
    The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
    Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
    And by opposing, end them.
    Source: Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Og Mandino To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
    Og Mandino
    American author (1923 - 1996)
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  • W. M. Thackeray To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forego even ambition when the end is gained - who can say this is not greatness?
    W. M. Thackeray
    Indian-born, British novelist (1811 - 1863)
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  • Joan Didion To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves - there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.
    Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 108
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Oscar Wilde To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Bodhidharma To go from mortal to Buddha, you have to put an end to karma, nurture your awareness, and accept what life brings.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Charles Horton Cooley To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Beth Simone Noveck To me, technology was a means to an end to achieve the social justice goals, stronger democracy and more effective government that is the aim of what I do.
    Beth Simone Noveck
    American professor (1971 - )
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  • Carol Moseley Braun To me, that means getting back to the point where our Constitution means that you don't tap people's phones and poke into their e-mail and you don't arrest people and keep them hidden for a year and a half without charging them.
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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  • Charles Kuralt To read the papers and to listen to the news... one would think the country is in terrible trouble. You do not get that impression when you travel the back roads and the small towns do care about their country and wish it well.
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  • Buzz Aldrin To send humans back to the moon would not be advancing. It would be more than 50 years after the first moon landing when we got there, and we'd probably be welcomed by the Chinese. But we should return to the moon without astronauts and build, with robots, an international lunar base, so that we know how to build a base on Mars robotically.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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