Quotes with things-blocking

Quotes 2021 till 2040 of 2349.

  • Calvin Coolidge We do not need more intellectual power, we need more spiritual power. We do not need more of the things that are seen, we need more of the things that are unseen.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • C. S. Lewis We do not retreat from reality, we rediscover it. As long as the story lingers in our mind, the real things are more themselves... By dipping them in myth we see them more clearly.
    Source: On Stories and Other Essays Tolkiens The Lord of the Rings
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Anais Nin We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.
    Source: The Seduction of the Minotaur
    Anais Nin
    French-born American Novelist, Dancer (1903 - 1977)
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  • Marcel Proust We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Byron Katie We do only three things in life: we sit, we stand, we lie horizontal. The rest is just a story.
    Source: Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life (2002)
    Byron Katie
    American speaker and author (1942 - )
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  • Bharati Mukherjee We do things when it is our time to do them. They do not occur to us until it is time; they cannot be resisted, once their time has come. It's a question of time, not motive.
    Bharati Mukherjee
    Indian American writer and professor (1940 - 2017)
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  • Titus Livy We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
    Titus Livy
    Roman historian (59 - 17)
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  • William Hazlitt We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Joan Didion We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Thomas J. Peters We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments.
    Thomas J. Peters
    American Management Consultant, Author, Trainer (1942 - )
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  • Umberto Eco We have a limit, a very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. That's why we like all the things that we assume have no limits and, therefore, no end. It's a way of escaping thoughts about death. We like lists because we don't want to die.
    Source:  (2009)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Brit Hume We have a society in which one of the greatest things you can do is a platform to see victim status, and one of the qualifications for that is that you have these exquisitely tender feelings about things and sensibilities which are easily offended.
    Brit Hume
    American journalist and political commentator (1943 - )
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  • Carl Sagan We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Campbell Newman We have been spending beyond our means, we are going to focus on the projects that we committed to in the election but importantly if there is additional projects or new things that come up they have to have a business case, they have to work and they can't impose financial stress on families and private individuals and businesses.
    Campbell Newman
    Australian politician (1963 - )
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  • Barbara Jordan We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.
    Barbara Jordan
    American lawyer, educator and politician (1936 - 1996)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Albert Einstein We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Arthur C. Clarke We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?
    Arthur C. Clarke
    British science fiction writer, science writer and futurist (1917 - 2008)
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  • Cybill Shepherd We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes.
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  • Audre Lorde We have too often been expected to speak
    all things to all people and speak everyone else's position
    but our own.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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