Quotes 841 till 860 of 1090.
-
The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.
-
The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
-
The other day I got out my can-opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, What am I doing?!
-
The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.
-
The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you.
-
The press, that goiter of the world, swells up with the desire for conquest and bursts with the achievements which every day brings. A week has room for the boldest climax of the human drive for expansion.
-
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
-
The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom. When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.
-
The rat stops gnawing in the wood, the dungeon walls withdraw, the weight is lifted your pulse steadies and the sun has found your heart, the day was not bad, the season has not been bad, there is sense and even promise in going on.
-
The real act of marriage takes place in the heart, not in the ballroom or church or synagogue. It's a choice you make - not just on your wedding day, but over and over again - and that choice is reflected in the way you treat your husband or wife.
-
The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
-
The really efficient laborer will be found not to crowd his day with work, but will saunter to his task surrounded by a wide halo of ease and leisure.
-
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it!''
-
The remarkable thing is, we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day.
-
The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.
-
The sage awakes to light in the night of all creatures. That which the world calls day is the night of ignorance to the wise.
-
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
-
The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption - pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.
-
The subject must be thought of in terms of the 20th century, of houses he lives in and places he works, in terms of the kind of light the windows in these places let through and by which we see him every day.
-
The sun himself is weak when he first rises, and gathers strength and courage as the day gets on.
All mid-day famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 43)
