Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 2

• In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

  Idi Amin

  Country, Sacrifice, Uganda

  Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.

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• If you could eavesdrop on everything said about you, you'd spend most of your time waiting for the subject to come up.

  Robert Breault

  Waiting, Come Up, Said

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• My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Inspirational, Strength, Heart

  "Sir Galahad" l. 3 (1842)

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

  Isaac Newton

  Inspirational, Success, Trust

  Quoted in Christian Monitor, and Religious Intelligencer, 4 July 1812. An almost identical quotation by Newton, said to have been uttered "a little before he died," appears in Joseph Spence, Anecdotes, Observations, and Characters of Books and Men, published in 1820 but extant in manuscript form from around 1730. A paraphrase of Newton's words was printed in a note in a 1797 edition of TheWorks of Alexander Pope.

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• We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

  T. S. Eliot

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Best Love, Women, Heart

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants, while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.

  Erich Fromm

  Men, Want, Illusion

  Erich Fromm (1950). “The Fear of Freedom”

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• Marry your son when you will, but you daughter when you can.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Daughter, Son, Your Son

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• We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Desire, Should, Ifs

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• The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Guests, Cleaning, Advantage

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• Never speak more clearly than you think.

  Jeremy Bernstein

  Thinking, Speak

  Jeremy Bernstein (1982). “Science Observed: Essays Out of My Mind”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Inspirational, Dance, Spiritual

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• It takes more strength of character to withstand good fortune than bad.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Character, Fortune, Strength Of Character

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• Love your enemy; it will ruin his reputation.

  Desmond Tutu

  Love You, Enemy, Ruins

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• The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

  Josh Billings

  Wicked, World, Fool

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• It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

  Juvenal

  Inspirational, Men, Quality

  "Satires". Book by Juvenal, III, line 164, 1890.

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• It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

  Haile Selassie

  Animal, Compassion, Pet

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• Loyalty in a free society depends upon the toleration of disloyalty.

  Alan Barth

  Loyalty, Depends, Toleration

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• Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems

  Nelson Mandela

  Thinking, Important, Weapons

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.300, Pan Macmillan

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• Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Justice

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Those who have invested the most are the last to surrender.

  Vince Lombardi

  Lasts, Surrender

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• Decide what you want to do. Then decide to do it. Then do it.

  William Zinsser

  Want, What You Want

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• I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Long Ago, Soul, Accepting

  Eleanor Roosevelt, David Emblidge (1989). “Eleanor Roosevelt's My Day: Her Acclaimed Columns, 1936-1945”

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• Whatever our creed, we feel that no good deed can by any possibility go unrewarded, no evil deed unpunished.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Evil, Deeds, Possibility

  Orison Swett Marden (1896). “Pushing to the Front: Or Success Under Difficulties, a Book of Inspiration and Encouragement to All who are Struggling for Self-elevation Along the Paths of Knowledge and of Duty”

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• Make good scouts of yourselves, become good rifle shots so that if it becomes necessary that you defend your families and your country that you can do it.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Country, Gun, Rifles

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