Adverse Quotes
120 quotes by 106 authors
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Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
— Colin Powell
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In the ending the king is a powerful piece for assisting his own pawns, or stopping the adverse pawns.
— Wilhelm Steinitz
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Just as the roots of trees take firmer hold when they are contending with the wind; so faith takes firmer hold when it struggles with…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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Global warming may be a 'crisis,' even 'the most pressing environmental problem of our time.' ... Indeed, it may ultimately affect nearly everyone on the…
— John Roberts
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When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
— Walter Scott
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We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection…
— Swami Vivekananda
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When the death of a disabled infant will lead to the birth of another infant with better prospects of a happy life, the total amount…
— Peter Singer
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The most favourable laws can do very little towards the happiness of people when the disposition of the ruling power is adverse to them.
— Edmund Burke
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion…
— John Stuart Mill
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I came away from the talk with the perception that the risk of adverse side effects is so much greater than the risk of cervical…
— Joan Robinson
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Learning how to love your neighbor requires a willingness to draw on the strength of Jesus Christ as you die to self and live for…
— John C. Broger
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It is true that I should have been surprised in the past to learn that Professor Hardy had joined the Oxford Group. But one could…
— John Edensor Littlewood
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However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that…
— Wietse Venema
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Proponents of the Central America Free Trade Agreement have conveniently ignored this fundamental fact: the effect of trade on incomes in Central America and how…
— Stephen F. Lynch
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Its a mathematical fact that two negatives make a positive so even under adverse circumstances think positively.
— Amit Abraham
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Dhyana is retaining one's tranquil state of mind in any circumstance, unfavorable as well as favorable, and not being disturbed or frustrated even when adverse…
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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It is haram [religiously forbidden] to use narcotics in any way because it results in considerable adverse effects in terms of personal health and social…
— Ali Khamenei
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Cities are gentrified by the following types of people in sequence: first the risk-oblivious (artists), then the risk-aware (developers), finally the risk adverse (dentists from…
— Bill Kraus
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Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records
— Shiv Khera
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However, the Government has made it clear that we do not encourage the recruitment of teachers from developing nations where there may be an adverse…
— Estelle Morris, Baroness Morris of Yardley
Who Wrote These Adverse Quotes
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