Quotes 481 till 500 of 1725.
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How many of us have been attracted to reason; first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism.
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How many women have the courage to start properly with a cold, cold bath early in the morning? I jump in, throw the water, cold as ice, and after the first plunge I am happy.
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How much does it really matter whether your child will soon be enjoying a first year at Harvard or Yale or will instead end up at her third or fourth or fifth choice? Probably much less than you think.
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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.
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Humor is the first gift to perish in a foreign language.
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Hundreds of years ago, the most beautiful women of Havana were only glimpsed stepping in or out of carriages on this street. The first foreign writers who arrived and saw this could never get past just how incredibly beautiful their feet were.
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I always like to say to people who want to be rich and famous, try being rich first. See if that doesn't cover most of it.
Source: I know how to be sour, The Guardian, December 2003 -
I always turn to the sports page first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing, but man's failures.
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I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
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I am really proud to be a part in whatever way of women becoming active in the political scene. I think it was the first time that people came to terms with the reality of what it meant to have a Senate made up of 98 men and two women.
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I am regularly asked what the average Internet user can do to ensure his security. My first answer is usually 'Nothing; you're screwed'.
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I am sure it is one's duty as a teacher to try to show boys that no opinions, no tastes, no emotions are worth much unless they are one's own. I suffered acutely as a boy from the lack of being shown this.
Source: The Temple of Death -
I believe scientists have a duty to share the excitement and pleasure of their work with the general public, and I enjoy the challenge of presenting difficult ideas in an understandable way.
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I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his hitherto unconscious self.
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I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.
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I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds.
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I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty...This is my highest and best use as a human.
Source: E! Online, 12-20-03 -
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Source: Jane Eyre (1847) ch. 6
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