Quotes 4621 till 4640 of 6052.
-
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
-
The pretty fellows you speak of, I own entertain me sometimes, but is it impossible to be diverted with what one despises? I can laugh at a puppet show, at the same time I know there is nothing in it worth my attention or regard.
-
The principal factors which influenced my life are 1) nonviolent tactics; 2) constitutional means; 3) democratic procedures; 4) respect for human personality; 5) a belief that all people are one.
-
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 principle of procrastinated rape is said to be the ruling one in all the great bestsellers.
-
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
-
The prisoner is not the one who has committed a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.
-
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic.
-
The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.
-
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.
-
The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.
-
The propensity to truck, barter and exchange one thing for another is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals.
-
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
-
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
-
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one
-
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.
-
The puzzling thing is that there is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time....
-
The quality of the will to power is, precisely, growth. Achievement is its cancellation. To be, the will to power must increase with each fulfillment, making the fulfillment only a step to a further one. The vaster the power gained the vaster the appetite for more.
-
The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.
-
The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.
All one-party famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 232)
