Quotes 321 till 340 of 2072.
-
Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt.
-
Emily Dickinson seems rather tame because she pretty much uses the same meter every time. It's called 'common meter.' It's a line of four beats that's followed by a line of three beats.
-
Emotion is primarily about nothing and much of it remains about nothing to the end.
-
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
-
Epictetus goes much further when he asks: Why do we not lose our temper if someone tells us that we have a headache, while we do lose it if someone says there is anything wrong with our arguments or our choice?
Source: Pensees (1669) -
Even if every major government were to slap huge taxes on carbon fuels - which is not going to happen - it wouldn't do much to halt climate change any time soon. What it would do is cost us hundreds of billions - if not trillions - of dollars, because alternative energy technologies are not yet ready to take up the slack.
-
Even though your kids will consistently do the exact opposite of what you're telling them to do, you have to keep loving them just as much.
-
Every dollar that we send in State Department aid or humanitarian aid that saves us from having to get involved with very expensive military actions is a good investment. And frankly, helping Israel fight terrorism in the Middle East is much cheaper than us fighting it here on our shores.
-
Everybody gets so much common information all day long that they lose their common sense.
-
Everybody out there watches the show and has expectations of wanting to be an 'Idol', but we're going to teach them how much hard work goes into it.
-
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
-
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
-
Everyone of us needs to show how much we care for each other and, in the process, care for ourselves.
-
Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him.
-
Everything great that we know has come from neurotics… never will the world be aware of how much it owes to them, nor above all what they have suffered in order to bestow their gifts on it.
-
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
-
Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false).
Source: Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (2011) 51 -
Except that right side up is best, there is not much to learn about holding a baby. There are one hundred and fifty-two distinctly different ways -and all are right! At least all will do.
-
Experience has two things to teach. The first is that we must correct a great deal and the second, that we must not correct too much.
-
Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.
All much-needed famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 17)
