Sincerely Quotes - Page 17

• The point of departure must always be a vision of the truth. The eye is the route of the soul, and the pencil or brush must sincerely and naïvely reproduce what it sees.

  Rosa Bonheur

  Art, Eye, Soul

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• Do you know anyone who would - secretly, sincerely, in his innermost self - really prefer to return to childhood?

  Anita Desai

  Self, Childhood, Return

  The Clear Light of Day ch. 1 (1980)

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• I sincerely believe that there's room for cutting down trees for forestry and grazing, so as we all get to eat. Everyone has to compromise.

  Steve Irwin

  Believe, Cutting, Tree

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• I think it is wrong for the federal government to force Christian individuals, businesses, pastors, churches to participate in wedding ceremonies that violate our sincerely held religious beliefs. We have to stand up and fight for religious liberty. That's where this fight is going.

  Bobby Jindal

  Christian, Religious, Fighting

  "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd, www.nbcnews.com. June 28, 2015.

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• I am sincerely grateful to everyone who did not let me pass my auditions. If I had gotten in too easily, I wouldn't have worked as hard. Thanks to them, I've gained more strength and I've learned what it means to never give up.

  IU

  Giving Up, Grateful, Mean

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• The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Winning, Essence, Ideas

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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Envy, Laughing, Stupidity

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• If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has.

  Confucius

  Men, Parent, Mind

  Confucius (2012). “The Analects of Confucius In Plain and Simple English: BookCaps Study Guide”, p.7, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Nothing will supply the want of sunshine to peaches, and, to make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom. Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished. The joy of the spirit indicates its strength. All healthy, things are sweet-tempered. Genius works in sport, and goodness smiles to the last.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sports, Sweet, Sunshine

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.456

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• There are but few talents requisite to become a popular preacher; for the people are easily pleased if they perceive any endeavors in the orator to please them. The meanest qualifications will work this effect if the preacher sincerely sets about it.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  People, Talent, Endeavor

  Oliver Goldsmith, Thomas Percy, Thomas Campbell (1812). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.”, p.326

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• Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

  Margaret Fuller

  Flames, Together, Sacred

  Margaret Fuller (1994). “The Letters of Margaret Fuller: 1850 and undated”

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• I sincerely want peace, not because I lack resources for war, but because I hate bloodshed.

  Catherine the Great

  Peace, Hate, War

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• So long as a person who has made mistakes . . . honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at him.

  Mao Zedong

  Mistake, Long, Wish

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.134, Lulu.com

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• I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.

  Alice Miller

  Children, Truth, Believe

  Alice Miller (2002). “The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self”, p.9, Basic Books

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• I just want everybody to know, on a personal note, from me, sincerely, it was all his fault.

  Triple H

  Wwe, Want, Faults

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• You can love a person deeply and sincerely whom you do not like. You can like a person passionately whom you do not love.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Like You, Persons

  Robert Hugh Benson (1915). “Spiritual Letters of Monsignor R. Hugh Benson to One of His Converts”

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• Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Moving, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.210, Graphic Arts Books

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• I've been very lucky to put women that I sincerely admire on the cover of 'Vogue:' the then First Lady and now Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and, more recently, First Lady Michelle Obama. Those were benchmarks for the magazine, and certainly covers that I've been very, very proud of.

  Anna Wintour

  Lucky, Magazines, Proud

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• I think woman is phenomenal, magnificent. I mean that sincerely.

  Luke Goss

  Mean, Thinking, Phenomenal

  "Is this it?". August 15, 2008.

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• It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Powerful, Good Life, Hard Times

  Bill O'Reilly (2013). “Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World”, p.39, Crown Archetype

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• It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Grateful, Needs

  "Kate Winslet Tells Vanity Fair 'i Am Sincerely Grateful For My Buttocks'" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 30, 2012.

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• Dear optimist, pessimist, and realist--while you guys were busy arguing about the glass of wine, I drank it! Sincerely, the opportunist!

  Lori Greiner

  Wine, Glasses, Guy

  FaceBook post by Lori Greiner from Jan 08, 2014

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• The process of finding the truth may not be a process by which we feel increasingly better and better. It may be a process by which we look at things honestly, sincerely, truthfully, and that may or may not be an easy thing to do.

  Adyashanti

  Looks, May, Easy

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• To the corruptions of Christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian, in the only sense he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence; & believing he never claimed any other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.267, Cambridge University Press

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• Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly.

  Bruce Lee

  Mean, Wholeheartedly

  Bruce Lee, John R. Little (1997). “Words of the Dragon: Interviews, 1958-1973”, p.120, Tuttle Publishing

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