Constant Quotes - Page 4

• Most of us women like men, you know; it's just that we find them a constant disappointment.

  Clare Short

  Disappointment, Men, Knows

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• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Courage, Brave, World

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• What keeps me going is a constant sense of disappointment with what I've already done.

  Robert Wyatt

  Disappointment, Done

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• s a scene of changes, and to be constant in Nature were inconstancy.

  Abraham Cowley

  Change, Scene, Inconstancy

  'The Mistress: or...Love Verses' (1647) 'Inconstancy'

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• Our vanity is the constant enemy of our dignity.

  Sophie Swetchine

  Vanity, Enemy, Dignity

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  Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Nursing, Nurse, Important

  "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations". Book by James Beasley Simpson, 1988.

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• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  Major Owens

  Leadership, Exercise, Ifs

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• There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.

  Jonathan Swift

  World, This World, Inconsistency

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• We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

  Keith Miller

  World, Exposed, Shortcomings

  Keith Miller (1992). “Compelled to control: why relationships break down and what makes them well”, Hci

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• Fame is a constant effort

  Jules Renard

  Effort, Reputation, Fame

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.18, Tin House Books

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• Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the reverse of the picture.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Success, Congratulations, Adversity

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• The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Death, Atheist, Fear

  Jiddu Krishnamurti, Mary Lutyens (1973). “The second Penguin Krishnamurti reader”

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• Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Moving On, Moving Forward, Decision

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• He hath freedom whoso beareth a clean and constant heart within.

  Quintus Ennius

  Heart, Compassion, Clean

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• The secret to winning is constant, consistent management.

  Tom Landry

  Motivational, Teamwork, Winning

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• Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Book, Needs, Defense

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1954). “The Alchemy of Books: And Other Essays and Addresses on Books & Writers”

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• A human being is a being who is constantly 'under construction,' but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.

  Jose Saramago

  Fashion, Construction, Destruction

  "Interview with Jose Saramago, Author of Blindness". Political Affairs Magazine Interview, www.politicalaffairs.net. March 2006.

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• Constant exposure to dangers will breed contempt for them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Danger, Exposure

  "De Providentia", IV in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 158-160), 1922.

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• One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Vocabulary, Names, Needs

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• There's a constant drip and trickle of life that goes into one's awareness really and consciousness of things.

  Mike Leigh

  Consciousness, Awareness

  "Mike Leigh at the NFT". Interview with Derek Malcolm, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2002.

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• The purest expression of the doctrine of Liberalism was probably that of Benjamin Constant

  Francis Parker Yockey

  Expression, Doctrine, Liberalism

  Francis Parker Yockey (2013). “Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics”, p.274, The Palingenesis Project (Wermod and Wermod Publishing Group)

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• When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

  Evan Dando

  Journey, Ugly, Awful

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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• I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory.

  Robert Sheckley

  Hard Work, Writing, Self

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• I'm not doing my work for constant success.

  Rod Taylor

  Success

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• The history of the Church of Rome is a constant leakage of members into such breakaway cults, which go on splitting.

  Mary Douglas

  Rome, Church, Goes On

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