Quotes 1 till 20 of 261.
-
Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and grieves which we endure help us in our marching onward.
-
A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
-
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.
-
A poet that fails in writing becomes often a morose critic. The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar.
-
A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.
-
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is exploitation of the strong by the weak.
-
Everyone who has ever built anywhere a ''new heaven'' first found the power thereto in his own hell.
-
He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
-
It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own.
-
Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.
-
Prostitution, when unmotivated by economic need, might well be defined as a species of psychological addiction, built on self-hatred through repetitions of the act of sale by which a whore is defined.
-
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
-
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
-
When I say we've had an ideal marriage, I'm not just talking about physical attraction, which I can imagine can wear pretty thin if it's all a couple has built on. We've had that and a whole lot more.
-
When I was eight, I bought my first puppet. It was a monkey, and I paid five cents for it. I collected some scrap wood and built myself a puppet theatre. I made 32 cents with my first show, which I thought was pretty good, and that's when I knew I would be a puppeteer when I grew up.
-
Youth is full of sport,
age's breath is short;
youth is nimble,
age is lame;
Youth is hot and bold,
age is weak and cold;
Youth is wild, and age is tame. -
'Restoring' is a very arrogant concept. If you're taking a house from 1812, do you restore it to how it looked the day after it was built, or restore it to the way it looked in 1828, or the way it looked in 1872? Do the minimum to stop it from falling apart, and then get away.
-
A city built on rivers and bituminous coal, Pittsburgh in the '90s has survived the boom and bust years.
All weak-built famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com
