Quotes with four-and-a-half

Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 25414.

  • Henry David Thoreau We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the Old World some weeks nearer to the New; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelaide has the whooping cough.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
    +1
  • Joseph Addison We are growing serious, and let me tell you, that's the next step to being dull.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
    - +
    +1
  • Dwight L. Moody We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
    - +
    +1
  • St. Teresa of Avila We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
    St. Teresa of Avila
    Spanish saint, mystic (1515 - 1582)
    - +
    +1
  • Douglas Adams We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
    - +
    +1
  • Ezra Pound We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
    - +
    +1
  • Booker T. Washington We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
    - +
    +1
  • Charles Caleb Colton We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.
    Lacon
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
    +1
  • William James We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
    - +
    +1
  • Walt Kelly We have meet the enemy; and he is us.
    - +
    +1
  • Charles Péguy We must always tell what we see. Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see.
    Charles Péguy
    French writer and poet (1873 - 1914)
    - +
    +1
  • Malcolm X We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
    - +
    +1
  • Bill Flores We need to have our conservative version of what health care looks like, and that will include a repeal of Obamacare.
    Bill Flores
    American businessman and politician (1954 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Charles Caleb Colton We often pretend to fear what we really despise, and more often despise what we really fear.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
    +1
  • Charlie Chaplin We think too much and feel too little.
    Charlie Chaplin
    British actor, movie maker (1889 - 1977)
    - +
    +1
  • Henry David Thoreau We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head monkey at Paris puts on a traveler's cap, and all the monkeys in America do the same.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
    - +
    +1
  • Mignon McLaughlin We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
    - +
    +1
  • Benedict Cumberbatch We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
    - +
    +1
  • Aristotle Well begun is half done.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
    - +
    +1
  • Robin George Collingwood What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
    - +
    +1
All four-and-a-half famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 56)