Devoted Quotes
515 quotes by 458 authors
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The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of…
— Sydney J. Harris
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The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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By the single example of this painter devoted to his art with such independence, my destiny as a painter opened out to me.
— Claude Monet
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It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospects of having Van Gogh…
— Ben Shahn
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And your Highnesses, as Catholic Christians and Princes, devoted to the holy Christian faith and the propagation thereof - and enemies of the sect of…
— Christopher Columbus
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As a man who has devoted his whole life to the most clear headed science, to the study of matter, I can tell you as…
— Max Planck
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I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history,…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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There is no more potent antidote to the corroding influence of mammon than the presence in the community of a body of men devoted to…
— William Osler
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Then the soul, freed from vice, purged by studies of true philosophy, versed in spiritual life, and practised in matters of the intellect, devoted to…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those who have been…
— Luis Barragan
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I am not opposed to the white race as charged by my enemies. I have no time to hate any one. All my time is…
— Marcus Garvey
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After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose…
— Pope Paul VI
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The USA is so enormous, and so numerous are its schools, colleges and religious seminaries, many devoted to special religious beliefs ranging from the unorthodox…
— Peter Medawar
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Youth is the season of receptivity, and should be devoted to acquirement; and manhood of power--that demands an earnest application. Old age is for revision.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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My ability to persuade my wife to marry me [was] quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any…
— Winston Churchill
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Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of…
— William John Locke
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Virtue steals, like a guilty thing, into the secret haunts of vice and infamy, clings to their devoted victim, and will not be driven quite…
— William Hazlitt
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be…
— Abraham Flexner
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Very devoted religious people are so extroverted, but at the same time, they're so repressed sexually and so conservative. I've never been able to understand…
— Jenny Hval
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The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious…
— Gloria Steinem
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