Quotes 1101 till 1120 of 1869.
-
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
-
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven.
-
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
-
The classes that wash most are those that work least.
-
The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
-
The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it.
-
The consequences of things are not always proportionate to the apparent magnitude of those events that have produced them. Thus the American Revolution, from which little was expected, produced much; but the French Revolution, from which much was expected, produced little.
-
The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
-
The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.
-
The daily press, the immediate media, is superb at synecdoche, at giving us a small thing that stands for a much larger thing. Reporters on the ground, embedded or otherwise, can tell us about or send us pictures of what happened in that place at that time among those people.
-
The dearest days in one's life are those that seem very far and very near at once.
The Rise of David Levinsky -
The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.
-
The delicate and infirm go for sympathy, not to the well and buoyant, but to those who have suffered like themselves.
-
The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.
-
The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
-
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
-
The Disarmament Conference has become the focal point of a great struggle between anarchy and world order... between those who think in terms of inevitable armed conflict and those who seek to build a universal and durable peace.
-
The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
-
The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.
-
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
All those famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 56)
