Quotes 101 till 120 of 153.
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Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet.
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Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
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The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error.
Life of Galileo -
The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
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The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any egoconsciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
The Meaning of Psychology for Modern Man (1933) -
The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
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The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
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The people who are successful are those who are grateful for everything they have. Giving thanks for what we have always opens the door for more to come, and ungratefulness always closes the door.
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The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
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The safety of the republic being the supreme law, and Texas having offered us the key to the safety of our country from all foreign intrigues and diplomacy, I say accept the key... and bolt the door at once.
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The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.
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The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?
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The vagabond who's rapping at your door,
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.Bringing It All Back Home (1965) -
There are always door openings. And gradually, it accumulates. The opportunities open up in front of you.
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There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
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There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.
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There paused to shut the door
A fellow called the Wind,
With mystery before,
And reticence behind.At the Granite Gate -
There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.
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