Quotes with well-spring

Quotes 1121 till 1140 of 1424.

  • Carl Sagan We are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Boris Yeltsin We are well aware from which countries and through which countries the terrorists are receiving support. In the immediate future I shall be calling upon the leaders of these states to put a stop to this kind of activity.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • Edward Dahlberg We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Antonio Guterres We can't deter people fleeing for their lives. They will come. The choice we have is how well we manage their arrival, and how humanely.
    Europe's Response to Mediterranean Crisis is 'Lagging Far Behind.' (2015)
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Richard Nixon We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at one another - until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.
    Richard Nixon
    American president (1913 - 1994)
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  • Henry David Thoreau We cannot well do without our sins; they are the highway of our virtue.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • A. J. McLean We didn't realize there were that many boy bands until we started touring in Europe. I don't think we were ever affected by it since a lot of the groups in Europe didn't really sing live, but we did and would perform a cappella as well.
    A. J. McLean
    American singer (1978 - )
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  • Joseph Joubert We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
    Joseph Joubert
    French writer (1754 - 1824)
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  • Stephen King We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.
    Dreamcatcher (2001) 33
    Stephen King
    American author of horror and supernatural fiction (1947 - )
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  • Jacques Maritain We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
    Jacques Maritain
    French Catholic philosopher (1882 - 1973)
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  • Austan Goolsbee We enter the government essentially in a hotel that is on fire. We're throwing people from the windows into the pool to save their lives and this is the evaluation of the Olympic diving committee: Well, the splash was too big.
    Austan Goolsbee
    American economist (1969 - )
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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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  • Butch Trucks We have a well and a garden. I crawl around in the mud and grow great vegetables.
    Butch Trucks
    American musician (1947 - 2017)
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  • Robert E. Lee We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Angela Davis We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Anton Chekhov We learn about life not from plusses alone, but from minuses as well.
    Anton Chekhov
    Russian playwright and short story writer
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  • Barbara Deming We learn best to listen to our own voices if we are listening at the same time to other women - whose stories, for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well, to be our stories also.
    Barbara Deming
    American feminist and advocate (0 - 1984)
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  • Cass Sunstein We live in a period in which political disagreements are routinely handed over to the courts. Whenever you think that the president is wrong, you might well cry out that he has violated the Constitution - and ask federal judges to rule accordingly.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Isadora Duncan We may not all break the Ten Commandments, but we are certainly all capable of it. Within us lurks the breaker of all laws, ready to spring out at the first real opportunity.
    Isadora Duncan
    American Dancer (1877 - 1927)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence We need not feel ashamed of flirting with the zodiac. The zodiac is well worth flirting with.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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