Entering Quotes

• Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

  William Arthur Ward

  Happiness, Gratitude, Hate

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• The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  The House of the Dead (1862) (translation by Constance Garnett) See Pearl S. Buck 2; Ramsey Clark 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.

  Winston Churchill

  Procrastination, Delay, Half

  Sir Winston S. Churchill (2013). “Never Give In!: Winston Churchill's Speeches”, p.126, A&C Black

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• This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

  Bill Gates

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Money

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• What I am after is the first impression - I want to show all one sees on first entering the room - what my eye takes in at first glance.

  Pierre Bonnard

  Eye, First Impression, Want

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• Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data -- i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Technology, Data, Omnipotence

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso

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• Embraces are comminglings from the head even to the feet, And not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

  William Blake

  Love, Secret Places, Feet

  William Blake, W. H. Stevenson (2007). “Blake: The Complete Poems”, p.822, Pearson Education

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• Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

  Winston Churchill

  Fear, War, Greatest Victory

  Speech in House of Commons, 13 May 1940

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• Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Government, People, Ego

  Donald Rumsfeld (2001). “Public Statements of Donald H. Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense, 2001”

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• Remember, when something leaves your life, God is making room for something much better to enter! Get ready!

  Paula White

  God, Faith, Optimistic

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• It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks

  Miriam

  Greek, Muse, Profession

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• I think we're entering a very dangerous time. The West has set itself up, decided it's in charge, not for good intentions, not for the benefit of mankind.

  Thom Yorke

  Time, Thinking, Benefits

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• Becoming Catholic involves entering into a relationship with the Catholic Church.

  Carl E. Olson

  Relationship, Catholic, Church

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• But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.

  Gordon Parks

  Autumn, Winter, Past

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• Sixty per cent of people entering prison today are illiterate.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Illiterate Person, People, Today

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• Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.

  Stephen Fry

  Business, Thinking, People

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• Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.

  Constantin Brancusi

  Art, Real, Self

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• I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my head alert to the motion of the world I am aware that life was never perfect, never absolute. This bestows contentment, even a fearlessness.

  Harold Brodkey

  Perfect, Contentment, World

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• No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.

  John Calvin

  Godly, Men, Calling

  John Calvin (1975). “John Calvin: Selections from His Writings”, p.558, Oxford University Press

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• No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Loyalty, Simple, Self Respect

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• An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.

  Billy Wilder

  Doors, Actors, Window

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• We entered Gettysburg in the afternoon, just in time to meet the enemy entering the town, and in good season to drive him back before his getting a foothold.

  John Buford

  Enemy, Afternoon, Towns

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• The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

  Havelock Ellis

  Birthday, Smell, Silence

  Impressions and Comments (1914)

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• There is one thing a professor can be absolutely certain of: almost every student entering the university believes, or says he believes, that truth is relative.

  Allan Bloom

  Believe, Students, Truth Is

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

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• We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Data, Important, World

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