Quotes 781 till 800 of 930.
-
Until very recently men and women inhabited very separate spheres. There was always interconnection, passion, love. But men and women didn't hang out at the end of the day and chat about what their day was like at the office.
-
Victories that are easy are cheap. Those only are worth having which come as the result of hard fighting.
― Henry Ward Beecher
American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887) -
War is a series of catastrophes which result in victory.
-
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
-
War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.
-
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end.
-
We are not actually in charge of life, yet behave as if we are the masters of our own destiny. The realization of this fact is quite a hard one. The ridiculousness of our pomposity and presumption can only result in anger or humor.
-
We are ready to end fascism once and for all, even in spite of the Republican government.
-
We are, to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of the century. Our only consolation will have to be that, as a species, we have had an exciting term of office.
-
We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
-
We begin to die as soon as we are born, and the end is linked to the beginning.
-
We believe that the United States and the rest of the international community can play a useful role by exerting influence on Pakistan to put a permanent and visible end to cross-border terrorism against India.
-
We built a market at IEX that does not sell certain types of technology advantages to high-frequency traders, and as a result, the high-frequency traders that didn't rely on buying those advantages trade on IEX.
-
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
-
We can never establish with certainty what part of our relations with others is the result of our emotions - love, antipathy, charity, or malice - and what part is predetermined by the constant power play among individuals.
-
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
-
We cannot be separated in interest or divided in purpose. We stand together until the end.
-
We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us - how we can take it, what we do with it - and that is what really counts in the end. How to take the raw stuff of life and make it a thing of worth and beauty - that is the test of living.
-
We don't get typhoons in December. They normally end by September. A typhoon happening in October is considered a late event.
-
We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons. When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons. A world free of nuclear weapons will be safer and more prosperous.
All end-result famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 40)
