Quotes with break-through

Quotes 861 till 880 of 1233.

  • Thornton Wilder The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • William Lyon Phelps The Gateway to Christianity is not through an intricate labyrinth of dogma, but by a simple belief in the person of Christ.
    William Lyon Phelps
    American author, critic and scholar (1865 - 1943)
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  • Charles Horton Cooley The general fact is that the most effective way of utilizing human energy is through an organized rivalry, which by specialization and social control is, at the same time, organized co-operation.
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Wallace Stevens The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.
    Wallace Stevens
    American poet (1879 - 1955)
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  • Cyril Connolly The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Jose Ortega Y Gasset The good is, like nature, an immense landscape in which man advances through centuries of exploration.
    Jose Ortega Y Gasset
    Spanish writer and philosopher (1883 - 1955)
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  • Albert Schweitzer The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • James Baldwin The greatest significance of the present student generation is that it is through them that the point of view of the subjugated is finally and inexorably being expressed.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Brendan Gill The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.
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  • Lord George Byron The heart will break, but broken live on.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Hubert Humphrey The heroes of the world community are not those who withdraw when difficulties ensue, not those who can envision neither the prospect of success nor the consequence of failure - but those who stand the heat of battle, the fight for world peace through the United Nations.
    Hubert Humphrey
    American politician (1911 - 1978)
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  • E. M. Forster The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Aung San Suu Kyi The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.
    Aung San Suu Kyi
    Burmese politician (1945 - )
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  • Mark Twain The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Horace The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Umberto Eco The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to be thrilled not only by the guarantee of the Good but also by the shudder of the Bad.
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Harry A. Overstreet The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Will Rogers The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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  • Carol Moseley Braun The Islamic community today is faced with a new version of an old struggle. My late mother used to say it doesn't matter whether you came to this country on the Mayflower or on a slave ship, through Ellis Island or the Rio Grande. We're all in the same boat now.
    Speech, September 2004
    Carol Moseley Braun
    American diplomat, politician, and lawyer (1947 - )
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