Quotes with might

Quotes 401 till 420 of 510.

  • Brigham Young This is the reason why the doctrine of plurality of wives was revealed, that the noble spirits who are waiting for tabernacles might be brought forth
    Polygamy Journal of Discourses, 4:56(Sept. 21, 1856)
    Brigham Young
    American Mormon Leader (1801 - 1877)
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  • Ben Carson Those of us who believe in God and derive our sense of right and wrong and ethics from God's Word really have no difficulty whatsoever defining where our ethics come from. People who believe in survival of the fittest might have more difficulty deriving where their ethics come from. A lot of evolutionists are very ethical people.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Cosby Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.
    Bill Cosby
    American actor, comedian, producer (1937 - )
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  • T. S. Eliot Time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present.
    T. S. Eliot
    British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social critic (1888 - 1965)
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  • William Shakespeare To be wise and love exceeds man's might.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Thomas Paine To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.
    Thomas Paine
    English-born American political activist, philosopher, political theor (1737 - 1809)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel To know how to suggest is the great art of teaching. To attain it we must be able to guess what will interest; we must learn to read the childish soul as we might a piece of music. Then, by simply changing the key, we keep up the attraction and vary the song.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • John Locke To love our neighbor as ourselves is such a truth for regulating human society, that by that alone one might determine all the cases in social morality.
    John Locke
    English philosopher (1632 - 1704)
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss To such idle talk it might further be added: that whenever a certain exclusive occupation is coupled with specific shortcomings, it is likewise almost certainly divorced from certain other shortcomings.
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • Emily Post To the old saying that man built the house but woman made of it a ''home'' might be added the modern supplement that woman accepted cooking as a chore but man has made of it a recreation.
    Emily Post
    American writer about etiquette (1872 - 1960)
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  • Barbara Boxer To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Barack Obama Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope.
    Speech Chicago 04-11-2008
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Arundhati Roy Torture has been privatized now, so you have obviously the whole scandal in America about the abuse of prisoners and the fact that, army people might be made to pay a price, but who are the privatized torturers accountable too?
    Arundhati Roy
    Indian author (1961 - )
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  • Hannah Arendt Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
    Hannah Arendt
    German-born American political theorist (1906 - 1975)
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  • Publilius Syrus Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Billy Wilder Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.
    Billy Wilder
    Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and artist (1906 - 2002)
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  • Boris Johnson Try as I might, I could not look at an overhead projection of a growth profit matrix, and stay conscious.
    Beth Pearson, Has Howard got news for Boris?, The Herald (Glasgow), 13 November 2004, p. 15.
    Boris Johnson
    British politician and author (1964 - )
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  • William Saroyan Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
    William Saroyan
    Armenian-American novelist, playwright, and writer (1908 - 1981)
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  • Billy Beane Trying to build a team over the course of the winter to put on the field is really just half the job. Because if your best players go down, it's not so much him going down as who you replace him with, which ultimately might have the biggest impact on how you end up finishing. So you want to have both a belt and suspenders for support.
    Billy Beane
    American baseball player (1962 - )
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