Impressive Quotes - Page 15

• I'm also pretty impressive when I'm shoving the neck of a lute into someone's chest cavity.

  Hank Green

  Necks, Chests

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• Drawing on impressive achievements in academics and athletics as well as his own personal disappointments and challenges, Jordan provides students with a unique opportunity to discover the magnitude of their own potential.

  Hyrum W. Smith

  Disappointment, Unique, Opportunity

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• I feel a certain calm. There is safety in the midst of danger. What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Hands, Safety, Calm

  Letter to Theo van Gogh, December 29, 1881.

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• I felt my energy return and that I said to myself, in any event I'll recover from it, I'll pick up my pencil that I put down in my great discouragement and I'll get back to drawing, and from then on, it seems to me, everything has changed for me.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Drawing, Return, Energy

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• No blue without yellow and without orange, and if you do blue, then do yellow and orange as well, surely.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Blue, Yellow, Orange

  Leo Jansen, Vincent van Gogh, Émile Bernard, Hans Luijten, Nienke Bakker (2007). “Vincent Van Gogh: painted with words : the letters to Émile Bernard”, Rizzoli

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• I always dream a painting like that, with a group of lively figures of the pals.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Groups, Pals

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• That this awareness of my own fallibility will prevent me from making many mistakes doesn't alter the fact that I'm bound to make a great many mistakes anyway. But if we fall, we get up again!

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Mistake, Fall, Facts

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Dream, Stars, Sight

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• Philosophical systems? Even the most impressive of them are uncomfortably seated on a throne of rock bottom stupidity, that self-inflicted narrow-mindness which renders a mind capable of believing that it, a part of the immense world, could absolute

  Erich Heller

  Philosophy, Believe, Philosophical

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• The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of the great mountain ranges. There are still plenty of shell layers. We notice them, even thicker and more solid ones.

  Georges Cuvier

  Moving, Mountain Ranges, Feet

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• Seattle’s Moraine not only make Washington State proud, but also the whole American progressive music scene joyful. ... It’s simply an impressive dead on eleven song tour de force. ... GET THIS! Highly Recommended!

  Lee Henderson

  Song, Proud, Washington State

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• I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

  Alfred Russel Wallace

  Years, Tuesday, Mind

  Sir James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916). “Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (Complete)”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• Socrates claimed famously that one never loses by doing the right thing. Stephen Post and his contributors claim, a little less boldly, that at least the generous will, probably, stay healthy—and, improving on Socrates, they support this claim with careful empirical science, impressive for its comprehensive detail. Here ethics and religion join science and enjoin us to be more caring and healthy. A seminal work, with an urgent message.

  Holmes Rolston III

  Caring, Support, Healthy

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• There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too.' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized for strength and the women are idealized for sexual availability. It's very, very different. The women's costumes are cut in such a way that I could give a cervical exam to 90% of our heroines. And I don't have a medical degree! So if I can find it, that's impressive.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Cutting, Availability, Giving

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• Women who make a house a home make a far greater contribution to society than those who command large armies or stand at the head of impressive corporations.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Home, Army, House

  Gordon B. Hinckley (2009). “Standing for Something: 10 Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes”, p.177, Harmony

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• Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

  Tryon Edwards

  Powerful, Anecdotes, Argument

  Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.79, Ravenio Books

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• It is an impressive place that smells like the 1950s, when everyone wore starch white shirts and black slacks and perfect crewcuts and worked on massive industrial projects

  Elf Sternberg

  White, Smell, Perfect

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• Much more than a 20th-century village storyteller, Cees Nooteboom stands as an impressive and inimitable voice among contemporary writers.

  Linda Simon

  Voice, Village, Century

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• Fear has a far greater grasp on human action than the impressive weight of historical evidence.

  Jeremy Siegel

  Historical, Investing, Weight

  Jeremy J. Siegel (1998). “Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns and Long-term Investment Strategies”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• The Government are extremely fond of amassing great quantities of statistics. These are raised to the nth degree, the cube roots are extracted, and the results are arranged into elaborate and impressive displays. What must be kept in mind, however, is that in every case, the figures are first put down by a village watchman, and he puts down anything he damn well pleases!

  Josiah Stamp

  Government, Roots, Mind

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• The thin and precarious crust of decency is all that separates any civilization, however impressive, from the hell of anarchy or systematic tyranny which lie in wait beneath the surface .

  Aldous Huxley

  Lying, Civilization, Waiting

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• Love always causes trouble, that's true, but in its favour, it energizes.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Causes, Favour, Trouble

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• But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Heart, Fighting, Inner Strength

  Vincent van Gogh (2009). “Saint-Rémy-de-Provence - Auvers-sur-Oise, 1889-1890, [772-902]”

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• Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Perseverance, Giving, Public Opinion

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• At first it was impressive, but after half and hour deadly monotonous. It was like everything German - overdone.

  Evelyn Waugh

  War, Half, World

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