March Quotes - Page 31

• My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society.

  Natan Sharansky

  Successful, Optimism, Democracy

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• I’ll play Pretty Pretty Princess with you if you just let me watch a little bit of March Madness.

  Matt Damon

  Princess, Play, Watches

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• My life was very tenuous last year. My daughter's death, in March in 2007, was unexpected. It was a shock. I didn't know if I'd survive it.

  Phoebe Snow

  Daughter, Mother, Years

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• Honest winter, snow clad and with the frosted beard, I can welcome not uncordially; but that long deferment of the calendar's promise, that weeping loom of March and April, that bitter blast outraging the honor of May - how often has it robbed me of heart and hope.

  George Gissing

  Heart, Winter, Long

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• On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Country, Independent, Leader

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think he got two issues out before I got mine in, this was March '87. He was out in December '86.

  Eddie Campbell

  Book, Thinking, Aggravation

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• In the Vedic Calender, the year 2013 is said to be the year of Victory. Victory of the Good over Bad.It is said to begin in the end of march.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Years, Victory, Ends

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• The patriots of 1776 had far more to fear from Benedict Arnold than they did King George. An enemy easily identified is much less formidable than one who marches in the uniform of an ally.

  Chuck Baldwin

  Kings, Enemy, Allies

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• The immigrant's heart marches to the beat of two quite different drums, one from the old homeland and the other from the new. The immigrant has to bridge these two worlds, living comfortably in the new and bringing the best of his or her ancient identity and heritage to bear on life in an adopted homeland.

  Mary McAleese

  Heart, Bridges, Two

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• In March and in April from morning till night In sowing and seeding good housewives delight.

  Thomas Tusser

  Morning, Cutting, Night

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• My friends, how desperately we need to be loved and to love. With it we are creative. With it we march tirelessly. With it, and with it alone, we are able to sacrifice for others.

  Chief Dan George

  Sacrifice, Creative, Needs

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• Appear at points which the enemy must hasten to defend; march swiftly to places where you are not expected.

  Sun Tzu

  Enemy, Where You Are, Expected

  Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli (2013). “The Complete Art of War”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, May, Helping

  Pope Francis @Pontifex, twitter.com. January 22, 2014.

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• Everything progresses in waves. The march of civilization, the progression of worlds, is in waves. All human activities likewise progress in waves - art, literature, science, religion.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Art, Civilization, Progress

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• Nothing stops the forward march of any creative endeavor like the need to do it absolutely perfectly. And who is to judge what is 'perfect' anyway? What I have judged full of flaws so many others have called terrific. Maybe the definition of Perfection is something that actually gets done.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Perfect, Judging, Creative

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Mar 04, 2015

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• God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength

  Charles Spurgeon

  Men, Gods Will

  Charles Spurgeon (2011). “Strengthen My Spirit”, p.189, Barbour Publishing

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• For the world was built in order around the atoms march in tune; Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder, The sun obeys them, and the moon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Moon, Order, Tunes

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1854). “Poems”, p.69

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• Martyrs, martyrs, martyrs,... we want a million martyrs to march on Jerusalem.

  Yasser Arafat

  Islamic, Jerusalem, Want

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• The anarch is oriented to facts, not ideas. He fights alone, as a free man, and would never dream of sacrificing himself to having one inadequacy supplant another and a new regime triumph over the old one. In this sense, he is closer to the philistine; the baker whose chief concern is to bake good bread; the peasant, who works his plow while armies march across his fields.

  Ernst Junger

  Dream, Army, Sacrifice

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• You ask me why I dwell in the green mountain; I smile and make no reply for my heart is free of care. As the peach-blossom flows down stream and is gone into the unknown, I have a world apart that is not among men.

  Li Bai

  Spring, Heart, Men

  Li Po, “Green Mountain”

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• The great Pioneer Missionaries all had 'inverted homesickness' this passion to call that country their home which was most in need of the Gospel. In this passion all other passions died; before this vision all other visions faded; this call drowned all other voices. They were the pioneers of the Kingdom, the forelopers of God, eager to cross the border-marches and discover new lands or win new-empires

  Samuel Marinus Zwemer

  Christian, Country, Passion

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• As Americans, preserving the best of our traditions, we have the right- nay the duty-to fight for participation in the forward march of humanity

  Paul Robeson

  Fighting, Humanity, Tradition

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• March 16th, Mike Tyson [vs.] Razor Ruddock, Razor Ruddock dies. If he doesn't die, it doesn't count. If he's not dead, it doesn't count.

  Mike Tyson

  Razors, Tyson, Dies

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• I saw my father march with Martin Luther King.

  Mitt Romney

  Kings, Father, Saws

  Faith in America, delivered 6 December 2007, College Station, TX

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• It is the relentless onward march of the texters, the SMS (Short Message Service) vandals who are doing to our language what Genghis Khan did to his neighbours 800 years ago. They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary. And they must be stopped.

  John Humphrys

  Vocabulary, Years, Sms

  "I h8 txt msgs: How texting is wrecking our language" by John Humphrys, www.dailymail.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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