Allotted Quotes
71 quotes by 66 authors
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If we accept and internalize the fact of our own mortality, then, by definition, we have to deal with the essential questions of how we…
— Surya Das
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Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- the traffic signal that said "Walk" the second you go there- and downticks- the itch…
— Ann Brashares
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Failure or success seems to have been allotted to men by their stars. But they retain the power of wriggling, of fighting with their star…
— E. M. Forster
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Even those to whom Providence has allotted greater strength of understanding, can expect only to improve a single science. In every other part of learning,…
— Samuel Johnson
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You stars that reigned at my nativity, whose influence hath allotted death and hell.
— Christopher Marlowe
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His [Henry Cavendish's] Theory of the Universe seems to have been, that it consisted solely of a multitude of objects which could be weighed, numbered,…
— George Wilson
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The occurrence of any event where the chances are beyond one in ten followed by 50 zeros is an event which we can state with…
— Emile Borel
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This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system. What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place. Our job as…
— Marjorie Harris
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Enjoy the blessing of strength while you have it and do not bewail it when it is gone, unless, forsooth, you believe that youth must…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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A realistic expectation also demands our acceptance that one's allotted time on earth must be limited to an allowance consistent with the continuity of our…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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[M]y fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply…
— George Washington
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It may not be improper, however, to remark two consequences, evidently flowing from an extension of the federal power to every subject falling within the…
— James Madison
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I appear, my fellow-citizens, in your presence and in that of Heaven to bind myself by the solemnities of religious obligation to the faithful performance…
— John Quincy Adams
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The allotted function of art is not, as is often assumed, to put across ideas, to propagate thoughts, to serve as an example. The aim…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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A professor was telling students about his colleagues class. Students in the other class had taken to tossing erasers at the clock. Each precise hit…
— Vicki Davis
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Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain…
— Henry Mackenzie
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The gods do not deduct from man's allotted span the hours spent in fishing.
— Herbert Hoover
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It is impossible for our working people to maintain their full strength if they do not succeed in obtaining a sufficient supply of fat, allotted…
— Paul von Hindenburg
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Time Management Tips: The perpetual processing of the same temptation is both dangerous and time-wasting. Cycling and recycling the same temptation (instead of rejecting such…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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It’s a race between your foolishness and your allotted days. Good luck.
— Mark Slouka
Who Wrote These Allotted Quotes
66 authors contributed a total of 71 Allotted Quotes, led by these top contributors: