Quotes with things-blocking

Quotes 2201 till 2220 of 2349.

  • Bodhidharma Whoever realizes that the six senses aren't real, that the five aggregates are fictions, that no such things can be located anywhere in the body, understands the language of Buddhas.
    Bodhidharma
    semi-legendary Buddhist monk
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  • Abdul Kalam Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
    Abdul Kalam
    11th President of India (1931 - 2015)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Bryant H. McGill Why do we laugh at such terrible things? Because comedy is often the sarcastic realization of inescapable tragedy.
    Bryant H. McGill
    American journalist and author (1969 - )
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld Why is our memory good enough to recall to the last detail things that have happened to us, yet not good enough to recall how often we have told them to the same person.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • William James Why should we think upon things that are lovely? Because thinking determines life. It is a common habit to blame life upon the environment. Environment modifies life but does not govern life. The soul is stronger than its surroundings.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Bob Knight Why talk now when so many things have been said without ever giving me a chance to talk?
    Bob Knight
    American basketball coach (1940 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Why, Sir, most schemes of political improvement are very laughable things.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Benjamin Harrison Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things?... Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.
    Benjamin Harrison
    American politician and lawyer (1833 - 1901)
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  • Albert Gray Winners have simply formed the habit of doing things losers don't like to do.
    Albert Gray
     
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  • Vince Lombardi Winning is not a sometime thing; It's an all the time thing. You don't win once in a while; you don't do things right once in a while; you do them right all the time.
    Vince Lombardi
    American football player (1913 - 1970)
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  • Aristophanes Wise men learn many things from their enemies.
    Aristophanes
    Ancient Greek comic playwright (446 - 386)
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  • Mme de Stael Wit lies in recognizing the resemblance among things which differ and the difference between things which are alike.
    Mme de Stael
    French-Swiss novelist and essayist (1766 - 1817)
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  • William Wordsworth With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
    William Wordsworth
    English poet (1770 - 1850)
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  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau With children use force with men reason; such is the natural order of things. The wise man requires no law.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
    French writer and philosopher (1712 - 1778)
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  • Confucius With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Steven Weinberg With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
    Steven Weinberg
    American theoretical physicist and Nobel laureate in Physics (1933 - 2021)
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  • Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton With ordinary talents and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable.
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  • Bradley Whitford With the success of a show, you get an opportunity to call attention to things that you believe in.
    Bradley Whitford
    American actor and political activist (1959 - )
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