Formed Quotes
849 Formed quotes by 682 unique authors
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The International Brigade was not formed to protect freedom and democracy. It was founded as a tool of of the Comintern, to promote the interests…
— Kevin Myers
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I don't play an instrument - I just write in my head, and I usually hear fully formed songs. 'We Are Young' turned out so…
— Nate Ruess
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The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
— Aristotle
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But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was…
— Cecelia Ahern
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights. It is quite possible we may have formed entirely erroneous ideas…
— Edward E. Barnard
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I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told that the Privileged and the People formed…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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There was a time when I was wondering about this business of going public, so I visited about a half-dozen companies in the Boston area,…
— Amar Bose
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Society is doing a great deal for the workingman, for the lower classes; but it seems to me, sometimes, as if it formed associations to…
— John Bartholomew Gough
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I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we can help groom…
— Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Great men, like comets, are eccentric in their courses, and formed to do extensive good by modes unintelligible to vulgar minds.
— Charles Caleb Colton
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The sons of Adam are formed from dust; if not humble as the dust, they fall short of being men.
— Saadi
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The balls of sight are so formed, that one man's eyes are spectacles to another, to read his heart with.
— Samuel Johnson
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Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the Present with the Past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in…
— Cyril Connolly
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The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This…
— Josiah Royce
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The faith I was born into formed me.
— Huston Smith
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I am the son of two civilizations that at a certain age in history have formed a happy marriage. The first of these, seven thousand…
— Naguib Mahfouz
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Embracing and rejecting tradition, bound and liberated by faith, torn between obscurantism and reason, self-assured and self-critical, they were a kaleidoscope of fragments, positions held…
— Israel Shenker
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She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for…
— Eleanor Brown
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That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves…
— Joseph Warren
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Since the earliest times it is as the exploiter that the Jew has been known amongst his fellow men of all races and creeds. Moreover,…
— Nesta Helen Webster
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After moving to England I did some recording and eventually formed an English band, this was together for quite a few years with only a…
— Suzi Quatro
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You're composed of an aggregate of different forms and energies, the samskaras. These are lines within your own being. When you go into samadhi, these…
— Frederick Lenz
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It is a better thing to weigh and measure priorities in the illuminating light of your own mission than to have your activities formed by…
— Mary Anne Radmacher
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The vision of a nation formed from many different peoples bound together by a common love of freedom was staked out long before our lifetimes…
— Trent Lott
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Before puberty the child's personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order,…
— Antonio Gramsci
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