Appointed Quotes
250 quotes by 211 authors
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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
— John Milton
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I have a theory that women are generally given space and appointed to jobs when the situation is tough. I've observed that in many instances.…
— Christine Lagarde
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A committee appointed by the President of a company will report what the President wishes to hear. Would they dare report otherwise?.
— W. Edwards Deming
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Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name…
— Basil Bunting
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If an appointed daughter by accident dies without ,leaving a son, the husband of the appointed daughter may, without hesitation, take that estate.
— Guru Nanak
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By twice born men a widow must not be appointed to ,cohabit with any other ,than her husband , for they who appoint ,her to…
— Guru Nanak
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He ,who is appointed to ,cohabit with the widow shall ,approach her at night anointed with clarified butter and silent, ,and beget one son, by…
— Guru Nanak
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Statistics have proven that the surest way to get anything out of the public mind and never hear of it again is to have a…
— Will Rogers
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Plants, animals, and stars are all kept in place, bridled along appointed ways, with one another, and through the midst of one another -- killing…
— John Muir
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All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass…
— Brigham Young
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The hymns of David, the plays of Shakespeare, the metaphysics of Descartes, the crimes of Borgia, the virtues of Antonine, the atheism of yesterday and…
— Henry Adams
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He who flies from his master is a runaway; but the law is master, and he who breaks the law is a runaway. And he…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Once, once for all, if you would save your heart from breaking, learn this lesson once for all you must cease, in this world, to…
— James Anthony Froude
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Supposing we knew that up there is some alien civilization and it's sending radio signals our way we should not tell the public where that…
— Paul Davies
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And what does reward virtue? You think the communist commissar rewards virtue? You think a Hitler rewards virtue? You think, excuse me, if you'll pardon…
— Milton Friedman
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Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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We made history when President Obama appointed Sonia Sotomayor, a proud Latina, the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice. And as the President likes to say,…
— Charlie Gonzalez
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I would like to see the day when somebody would be appointed surgeon somewhere who had no hands, for the operative part is the least…
— Harvey Cushing
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The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not…
— Rita Dove
Who Wrote These Appointed Quotes
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