Quotes 1241 till 1260 of 15856.
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A salesman must also have flexible goals. You may say, ''I want to sell 10 accounts this week,'' and you sell five. You're ready to die. But, you tell yourself, ''Five isn't too bad. You know, next week maybe I'll sell 10.
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A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.
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A scholar is like a book written in a dead language. It is not every one that can read in it.
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.
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A search is a search, even if it happens to disclose nothing but the bottom of a turntable.
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A sense of proportion and humanitarian action are not issues for terrorists. Their aim is that of killing and destroying.
Speech at a summit of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Istanbul, Turkey, as quoted in BBC World Service (19 November 1999) -
A serious writer is not to be confused with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
Death in the Afternoon (1932) Ch. 16 -
A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.
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A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
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A show that no one thought had a chance has just finished its fifth year: Charmed. I think it's tougher for the younger networks, so I think they have a little more patience for the sake of the show. But who knows?
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A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is.... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.
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A simple enough pleasure, surely, to have breakfast alone with one's husband, but how seldom married people in the midst of life achieve it.
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A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors.
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A slave has but one master. An ambition man, has as many as there are people who helped him get his fortune.
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A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.
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A society must assume that it is stable, but the artist must know, and he must let us know, that there is nothing stable under heaven.
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A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed.
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A soldier of the Legion lay dying in Algiers, There was a lack of woman's nursing, there was dearth of woman's tears; But a comrade stood beside him, while his lifeblood ebbed away.
Bingen on the Rhine l. 1 (1850) -
A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.
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