Quotes with life-time

Quotes 2421 till 2440 of 6709.

  • John Kenneth Galbraith In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily wrong.
    John Kenneth Galbraith
    American economist (1908 - 2006)
    - +
     0
  • Malcolm X In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
    - +
     0
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
    Harriet Beecher Stowe
    American Novelist (1811 - 1896)
    - +
     0
  • Charles Caleb Colton In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Barry Sanders In all the time that people have known me, has anyone ever heard me talk about the importance of rushing records or finishing with the most touchdowns? So if that's never been important to me, then why would that be a motivation to keep playing?
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
    - +
     0
  • A. W. Tozer In almost everything that touches our everyday life on earth, God is pleased when we're pleased. He wills that we be as free as birds to soar and sing our maker's praise without anxiety.
    A. W. Tozer
    American Christian pastor, preacher and author
    - +
     0
  • Bruno Tonioli In America they like my spicy TV alter ego, probably because there were a lot of Italians and Hispanics in the country, but the real L.A. life is a hard-working one.
    Bruno Tonioli
    Italian choreographer and dancer (1955 - )
    - +
     0
  • Quentin Crisp In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
    - +
     0
  • Adam Weishaupt In another situation, and in an active station in life, I should have been keenly occupied, and the founding of an order would have never come into my head.
    Adam Weishaupt
    German philosopher (1748 - 1830)
    - +
     0
  • Edward P. Tryon In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time.
    - +
     0
  • Billy Beane In baseball, you can do something poorly and still get credit. A pitcher could throw a bad ball, the batter hit a screaming line drive, and an outfielder make a fantastic diving catch. Yet, when you look at historical databases, 80% of the time when a ball is struck with that trajectory and velocity, it is a hit.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
    - +
     0
  • Thomas Carlyle In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
    On Heroes 5
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
    - +
     0
  • Washington Irving In civilized life, where the happiness and indeed almost the existence of man, depends on the opinion of his fellow men. He is constantly acting a studied part.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
    - +
     0
  • Bernie Sanders In cold weather states like Vermont, where the weather can get to 20 below zero, home heating assistance is critically important. In fact, it is a life and death issue.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
    - +
     0
  • Constance Rourke In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears.
    - +
     0
  • Albert Bushnell Hart In comparison with other men of their time, the Americans were distinguished by the possession of new political and social ideas, which were destined to be the foundation of the American commonwealth.
    Albert Bushnell Hart
    American historian, writer, and editor (1854 - 1943)
    - +
     0
  • Lydia Sigourney In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry of idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.
    - +
     0
  • H.G. Wells In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
    - +
     0
  • Robert Collier In every adversity there lies the seed of an equivalent advantage. In every defeat is a lesson showing you how to win the victory next time.
    Robert Collier
    American author
    - +
     0
  • Brooks Atkinson In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crises that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them.
    Once around the sun (1951)
    Brooks Atkinson
    American theatre critic (1894 - 1984)
    - +
     0
All life-time famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 122)