Quotes with not-self

Quotes 6601 till 6620 of 10786.

  • Georges Bernanos Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.
    Georges Bernanos
    French writer (1888 - 1948)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Aristotle Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Carlo Rubbia Quark-antiquark collisions cannot be realized directly since free quarks are not available. The closest substitute is to use collisions between protons and antiprotons.
    Carlo Rubbia
    Italian physicist and inventor (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self control. Yield larger things to which you can show no more than equal right; and yield lesser ones, though clearly your own. Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • George Eliot Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Samuel Johnson Questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Vernon Howard Quit thinking that you must halt before the barrier of inner negativity. You need not. You can crash through whatever we see a negative state, that is where we can destroy it.
    Vernon Howard
    Swiss actor (1918 - 1992)
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  • Ann Beattie Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interesting character, or if the more complex character isn't the woman.
    Ann Beattie
    American novelist (1947 - )
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  • Janet Guthrie Racing is a matter of spirit not strength.
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  • Alex Haley Racism is taught in our society, it is not automatic. It is learned behavior toward persons with dissimilar physical characteristics.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Leonard Cohen Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession. And still we hear, If only this nation had a soul, or, Let us change the way we trade, or, Let us be proud of our region.
    Leonard Cohen
    Canadian-born American Musician, Songwriter, Singer (1934 - 2016)
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  • Charles A. Stoddard Rapidity does not always mean progress, and hurry is akin to waste. The old fable of the hare and the tortoise is just as good now, and just as true, as when it was first written.
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  • Samuel Butler Rare virtues are like rare plants or animals, things that have not been able to hold their own in the world. A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner but more durable metal.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Read much, but not many books.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Francis Bacon Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • William Faulkner Read, read, read. Read everything - trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it is good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out the window.
    William Faulkner
    American writer (1897 - 1962)
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  • Augustine Birrell Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.
    Augustine Birrell
    British Liberal Party politician (1850 - 1933)
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  • Babe Ruth Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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