Converting Quotes
112 quotes by 102 authors
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If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.
— Margaret Atwood
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The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say…
— Lord Byron
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
— Thomas Carlyle
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As man sows, so shall he reap. In works of fiction, such men are sometimes converted. More often, in real life, they do not change…
— Charles W. Chesnutt
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From the day of Pentecost until the present time, it has been necessary to be of one accord in prayer before the Spirit of God…
— John Mott
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Slavery is an institution for converting men into monkeys.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Men of sense esteem wealth to be the assimilation of nature to themselves, the converting of the sap and juices of the planet to the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Do not stand still disputing about your election, but set to repenting and believing. Cry to God for converting grace. Revealed things belong to you;…
— Joseph Alleine
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You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume…
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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"thanks" in MaoriGrateful living: an alchemic operation of converting "disgraceful" things into grateful events.
— Raimon Panikkar
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Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The wooing of the Earth thus implies much more than converting the wilderness into humanized environments. It means also preserving natural environments in which to…
— Rene Dubos
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It may be safely averred that good cookery is the best and truest economy, turning to full account every wholesome article of food, and converting…
— Eliza Acton
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We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity…
— Lester R. Brown
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I would not exchange the laughter of my heart for the fortunes of the multitudes; nor would I be content with converting my tears, invited…
— Khalil Gibran
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To convert college sports into professional sports would be tantamount to converting it into minor league sports. And we know that in the U.S., minor…
— Mark Emmert
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The Lord will bless us with more baptisms if you make sure the ones you have are going to keep their commitments. The Lord will…
— Richard G. Scott
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We shall divert through our own Country a branch of commerce which the European States have thought worthy of the most important struggles and sacrifices,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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No other depositories of power [but the people themselves] have ever yet been found, which did not end in converting to their own profit the…
— Thomas Jefferson
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