Quotes with reserved

  • That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
  • The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.

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  • Bill Hybels Dignity does not float down from heaven it cannot be purchased nor manufactured. It is a reward reserved for those who labor with diligence.
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Caitlin Doughty Dying in the sanitary environment of a hospital is a relatively new concept. In the late 19th century, dying at a hospital was reserved for people who had nothing and no one. Given the choice, a person wanted to die at home in their bed, surrounded by friends and family.
    Caitlin Doughty
    American author, blogger (1984 - )
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  • Thucydides Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved.
    Thucydides
    Athenian historian and general (460 - 400)
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  • Pythagoras In this theater of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on.
    Pythagoras
    Greek philosopher (580 - 504)
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  • Ezra Pound It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Robin George Collingwood Perfect freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work and in that work does what he wants to do.
    Robin George Collingwood
    English philosopher, historian and archaeologist (1889 - 1943)
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  • Bill Dedman Relaxing at home in his 55th-floor condominium before a game, Sammy Sosa is the same as at the ball park: focused but funny, exuberant but reserved. He is in a strange country, conversing in two languages, but his every movement displays a combination of confidence and humility.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Carl D. Anderson Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.
    Carl D. Anderson
    American physicist
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson That which we call character is a reserved force which acts directly by presence, and without means. It is conceived of as a certain undemonstrable force, a familiar or genius, by whose impulses the man is guided, but whose counsels he cannot impart.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Martin Luther King The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
    Martin Luther King
    American preacher (1929 - 1968)
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  • Beeban Kidron The previous generation paved the way for my generation to gallop unheeded into jobs previously reserved for men.
    Beeban Kidron
    British filmmaker (1961 - )
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  • Caleb Cushing The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Camille Paglia The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
    Vamps and Tramps (1994)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Benjamin Peirce There are many cases of these algebras which may obviously be combined into natural classes, but the consideration of this portion of the subject will be reserved to subsequent researches.
    Linear Associative Algebra Natural Classification, p. 119
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  • Jane Austen There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Horace Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Carl Hiaasen When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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