Quotes 6321 till 6340 of 10005.
-
Perhaps nobody ever accomplishes all that he feels lies in him to do; but nearly every one who tries his power touches the walls of his being.
-
Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.
-
Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.
The quotable Calvin Coolidge: sensible words for a new century (2001) -
Perhaps one reason for the falling-off of belief in a continuance of conscious existence is to be found in the quality of life that most of us lead. There is not much in it with which, in any kind of reason, one can associate the idea of immortality.
-
Perhaps the only true dignity of man is his capacity to despise himself.
-
Perhaps the story you finish is never the one you begin.
Midnight's Children (2010) 596 -
Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.
-
Perhaps this is one of the last remaining strands of my Catholic upbringing, but to me the word 'worship' means absolute unquestioning affirmation of the authority of the deity. I'll not have that in my life. If you are wise, neither will you.
-
Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it.
-
Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.
-
Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
-
Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.
-
Personal savings accounts to me are one of the most powerful things, not necessarily in saving, solvency, or bankruptcy of the program, but in guaranteeing, the words I used a few minutes ago, a safe and secure retirement for our seniors.
-
Personality is only ripe when a man has made the truth his own.
-
Personality maintains its discreetness by an act of will. Otherwise one person will flow helplessly into another.
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) -
Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.
-
Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood.
-
Pervading nationalism imposes its dominion on man today in many different forms and with an aggressiveness that spares no one. The challenge that is already with us is the temptation to accept as true freedom what in reality is only a new form of slavery.
All one-man famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 317)
