Quotes 541 till 560 of 780.
-
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
-
The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.
-
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-
The end of times has always been a fascination. But post 9/11, pretty much everybody will admit to having it on their minds more frequently than when they were a kid.
-
The end result of kindness is that it draws people to you.
-
The end we aim at must be known, before the way can be made.
-
The end-of-summer winds make people restless.
Engleby (2007) -
The epic implications of being human end in more than this: We start our lives as if they were momentous stories, with a beginning, a middle and an appropriate end, only to find that they are mostly middles.
-
The first line is the DNA of the poem; the rest of the poem is constructed out of that first line. A lot of it has to do with tone because tone is the key signature for the poem. The basis of trust for a reader used to be meter and end-rhyme.
-
The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means.
-
The German intellect wants the French sprightliness, the fine practical understanding of the English, and the American adventure; but it has a certain probity, which never rests in a superficial performance, but asks steadily, To what end? A German public asks for a controlling sincerity.
-
The government recognized immediately that Rap music has enormous revolutionary potential and politicians immediately came together to end it.
-
The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning.
-
The happiness of society is the end of government.
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787) -
The high sentiments always win in the end, the leaders who offer blood, toil, tears, and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic.
-
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
The picture of Dorian Gray (1891) -
The highest in God's esteem are the lowest in their own.
-
The highest order of mind is accused of folly, as well as the lowest. Nothing is thoroughly approved but mediocrity. The majority has established this, and it fixes its fangs on whatever gets beyond it either way.
-
The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.
All lowest-end famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 28)
