Quotes with by-word

Quotes 301 till 320 of 406.

  • Machiavelli The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • Mark Twain The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Pearl S. Buck The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Mme de Stael The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • Henry Bolingbroke The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Abdoulaye Wade The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.
    Abdoulaye Wade
    Senegalese politician (1926 - )
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  • Buddha The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character; So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beingsÂ… As the shadow follows the body, As we think, so we become.
    Dhammapada
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Ben Kingsley The trick is to try and justify every word on the page and make sure my character is the man who would say that.
    Ben Kingsley
    English actor (1943 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, divine.
    The Practice of Psychotherapy (1953) p. 364
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word "belief" is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it - I don't need to believe it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word ''belief'' is a difficult thing for me. I don't believe. I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis. Either I know a thing, and then I know it -I don't need to believe it.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche The word ''Christianity'' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Henry Miller The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Norman Tebbit The word ''conservative'' is used by the BBC as a portmanteau word of abuse for anyone whose views differ from the insufferable, smug, sanctimonious, naive, guilt-ridden, wet, pink orthodoxy of that sunset home of the third-rate minds of that third-rate decade, the nineteen-sixties.
    Norman Tebbit
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Carl Gustav Jung The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • Billy Graham The word 'romance,' according to the dictionary, means excitement, adventure, and something extremely real. Romance should last a lifetime.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Caitlin Moran The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Alan Cohen The word courage comes from the French word 'coeur', which means heart. True power proceeds not from force, but from love.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne The word is half his that speaks, and half his that hears it.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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