Approaching Quotes
293 quotes by 270 authors
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We are approaching a time when Christians, especially, may have to declare the social contract between Enlightenment rationalists and Biblical believers - which formed the…
— Cal Thomas
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Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford…
— Maggie Kuhn
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Google has the functionality of a really complicated Swiss Army knife, but the home page is our of approaching it closed... It's simple, it's elegant…
— Marissa Mayer
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There is a kind of fear, approaching a panic, that's spreading through the Baby Boom Generation, which has suddenly discovered that it will have to…
— Ron Chernow
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From the exterior face of the wall towers must be projected, from which an approaching enemy may be annoyed by weapons, from the embrasures of…
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Colored, Negro, Afro-American, African American. ... Every couple of years someone came up with something that got us an inch closer to the truth. Bit…
— Colson Whitehead
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In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to…
— Emma Goldman
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One conversation centered on the ever accelerating progress of technology and changes in the mode of human life, which gives the appearance of approaching some…
— Stanislaw Ulam
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Strolling on the plateau of life, desperate for the mountain, I never thought that I would get this far. It's only art that has carried…
— Tracey Emin
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There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker…
— Gregory Bateson
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My advice to the reader approaching a poem is to make the mind still and blank. Let the poem speak. This charged quiet mimics the…
— Camille Paglia
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The greatest productions of art, whether painting, music, sculpture or poetry, have invariably this quality-something approaching the work of God.
— Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
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Western science is approaching a paradigm shift of unprecedented proportions, one that will change our concepts of reality and of human nature, bridge the gap…
— Stanislav Grof
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Why isn’t the fact that 100,000 women choose to end their pregnancies regarded as a national tragedy approaching the scale, say, of Aboriginal life expectancy…
— Tony Abbott
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When we fully understand the brevity of life, its fleeting joys and unavoidable pains; when we accept the facts that all men and women are…
— Clarence Darrow
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Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
— Baal Shem Tov
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Good rock 'n' roll is something that makes you feel alive. It's something that's human, and I think that most music today isn't. ... To…
— Lester Bangs
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Man is a transitional being. He is not final. The step from man to superman is the next approaching achievement in the earth evolution. It…
— Sri Aurobindo
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The old time strongmen used to lift huge weights just enough to clear a sheet of paperit is in this tradition that Sri Chinmoy's lifts…
— Frank Zane
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I heard a loud noise in the heavens, and the Spirit instantly appeared to me and said the Serpent was loosened, and Christ had laid…
— Nat Turner
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