Contributed Quotes

213 quotes by 199 authors

If there is such a thing as being conditioned by climate and geography, and I think there is, it is the West that has conditioned… — Wallace Stegner
Every time someone puts an objection to me, I want to say: 'OK, OK, let's go on to something else.' Objections have never contributed anything. — Gilles Deleuze
Everything matters. The Universe is approximately fifteen billion years old, and I swear that in all that time, nothing has ever happened that has not… — Robertson Davies
Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brainâ€”the brain, that… — Vladimir Nabokov
The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in the domain of the cinema - has… — Andre Breton
Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
I could not cry for my own brother; he would not want me to. But I found myself crying for this hated stranger and the… — Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
You had a package. It was torn, so I looked in.â€ She lifted one of a stack of firefighter calendars, with his own mug and… — Jill Shalvis
The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his… — John Maynard Keynes
The reality is, I like imperfection. You take away from the world when you're not yourself. Whatever is unique and special about you was designed… — Queen Latifah
One of the consequences of such notions as â€˜entitlementsâ€™ is that people who have contributed nothing to society feel that society owes them something, apparently… — Thomas Sowell
... because all things have contributed to your advancement, you should include all things in your gratitude. — Wallace D. Wattles
Wellbeing is about the combination of our love for what we do each day, the quality of our relationships, the security of our finances, the… — Tom Rath
If someday they say of me that in my work I have contributed something to the welfare and happiness of my fellow man, I shall… — George Westinghouse
Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by… — Mark Twain
The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that we will experience… — Dalai Lama
When I was younger, I used to wrestle, and I feel that it contributed to my athletic ability because as a wrestler you have to… — Dhani Jones
Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch. — Eugene Jarecki
Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get… — Moshe Safdie
Instead of fostering the kind of dialogue in the boardroom that has in part contributed to our success, the board has inappropriately chosen to silence… — George Zimmer

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