Quotes with one-verse

Quotes 4241 till 4260 of 5921.

  • Søren Kierkegaard The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
    Søren Kierkegaard
    Danish philosopher (1813 - 1855)
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  • Thornton Wilder The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.
    Thornton Wilder
    American writer and playwright (1897 - 1975)
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  • Dean Acheson The future comes one day at a time.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • James Baldwin The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
    James Baldwin
    American writer (1924 - 1987)
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  • Blake Mycoskie The future of TOMS is really creating a whole new business model of this one-for-one giving and expanding the TOMS model from shoes into other products as well.
    Blake Mycoskie
    American entrepreneur, author, and philanthropist (1976 - )
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  • William Somerset Maugham The future will one day be the present and will seem as unimportant as the present does now.
    William Somerset Maugham
    English writer (1874 - 1965)
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  • Barry Sanders The game is the ultimate significance to me because it is so important to a lot of people. It has left a mark on our culture to be voted as one of the best to ever play.
    Barry Sanders
    American football player (1968 - )
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  • George Borrow The Germans are the most philosophic people in the world, and the greatest smokers: now I trace their philosophy to their smoking. Smoking has a sedative effect upon the nerves, and enables a man to bear the sorrows of this life (of which every one has his share) not only decently, but dignifiedly.
    George Borrow
    English writer of novels and travel books (1803 - 1881)
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  • Bayard Taylor The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Alice Walker The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Rod Mckeun The gifts that one receives for giving are so immeasurable that it is almost an injustice to accept them.
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The glory of friendship is not in the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is in the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Thomas Jefferson The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Cyril Connolly The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • William Blake The Goddess Fortune is the devil's servant, ready to kiss any one's ass.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ashley Montagu The Good Book - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever copied.
    Ashley Montagu
    British-American anthropologist (1905 - 1999)
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  • Bertrand Russell The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.
    Motivation and Personality (1954)
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as the other.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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