Among Quotes
4656 Among quotes by 2816 unique authors
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Every time we walk along a beach some ancient urge disturbs us so that we find ourselves shedding shoes and garments or scavenging among seaweed…
— Loren Eiseley
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I was a shadow among shadows brooding over the fate of other shadows that I alone strove to summon up out of the all-pervading dusk.
— Loren Eiseley
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We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other.…
— Frederick Buechner
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The incarnation is “a kind of vast joke whereby the Creator of the ends of the earth comes among us in diapers Until we too…
— Frederick Buechner
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A man who knows a thing, recognizes a given danger, and sees with his own eyes the possibility of a remedy, damned well has the…
— George Lincoln Rockwell
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The coast is an edgy place. Living on the coast presents certain stark realities and a wild, rare beauty. Continent confronts ocean. Weather intensifies. It's…
— Carl Safina
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And even when success comes, as I am sure it will, bear in mind that there are more quiet and enviable joys than to be…
— Unknown Author
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The act of willing this or that, of choosing among various courses of conduct, is central in the realm of ethics.
— Corliss Lamont
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After there is great trouble among mankind, a greater one is prepared. The great mover of the universe will renew time, rain, blood, thirst, famine,…
— Nostradamus
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In Chapel Hill among a friendly folk, this old university, the first state university to open its doors, stands on a hill set in the…
— Unknown Author
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Circumstances may appear to wreck our lives and God’s plans, but God is not helpless among the ruins.
— Eric Liddell
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Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses
— Cesare Lombroso
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You must linger among a limited number of master-thinkers, and digest their works, if you would derive ideas which shall win firm hold in your…
— Seneca the Younger
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When you feel discouraged or simply lazy, as is bound to happen sometimes, remember the millions of people in the world who have not had…
— Jehan Sadat
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A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.
— Sun Ra
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If you are among those who believe that the U.S. has the best healthcare system in the world - despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary…
— Wendell Potter
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Among a democratic people, where there is no hereditary wealth, every man works to earn a living, or is born of parents who have worked.…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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While in the city and its suburbs, I fed as if in danger of imminent execution. And I was able to confirm earlier reconnaissance: Vancouver…
— Sam Sifton
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In these sad and ominous days of mad fortune chasing, every patriotic, thoughtful citizen, whether he fishes or not, should lament that we have not…
— Grover Cleveland
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Lots of people committed crimes during the year who would not have done so if they had been fishing. The increase of crime is among…
— Herbert Hoover
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About the gods I have no means of knowing either that they exist or that they do not exist or what they are to look…
— Protagoras
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As I lay down my pen, let me record my immovable conviction that His is the noblest service in which any human being can spend…
— John Gibson Paton
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Then as now, whatever disagreements over policies existed among Americans - and there were many such bitter policy disputes - the purposes and goals for…
— Allen Weinstein
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I have ever been opposed to banks, - opposed to internal improvements by the general government, - opposed to distribution of public lands among the…
— Sam Houston
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We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not…
— Dion Fortune
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