Impression Quotes
1118 quotes by 875 authors
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In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting…
— George Washington
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The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language…
— Carol Ann Duffy
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Far be it from me to paint a rosy picture of the future...But I should be failing in my duty if, on the other side,…
— Winston Churchill
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Many people have the impression that there is significant scientific disagreement about global climate change. It's time to lay that misapprehension to rest. There is…
— Naomi Oreskes
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My impression is that most women public service workers have a long fuse. Precisely because they care so deeply about services, more than anyone, they…
— Frances O'Grady
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Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them…
— Orlando Figes
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Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is…
— David Low
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He gives us the very quintessence of perception,-the clearly crystalized precipitation of all that is most precious in the ferment of impression after the impertinent…
— James Russell Lowell
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To find this greater truth about God, Spirit, and the sacred, we must often set aside the limiting impressions from our childhood. In many instances…
— Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things,…
— Friedrich Wohler
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Quiet moves often make a stronger impression than a wild combination with heavy sacrifices.
— Mikhail Tal
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If my impressions are correct, our educational planing mill cuts down all the knots of genius, and reduces the best of the men who go…
— Simon Newcomb
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In the light of her son's comment she reconsidered the scene at the mosque, to see whose impression was correct. Yes it could be worked…
— E. M. Forster
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To complete the rout of traditionalists, in America an impression began to arise that the new industrial and acquisitive interests are the conservative interest, that…
— Russell Kirk
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Acknowledge the complexity of the world and resist the impression that you easily understand it. People are too quick to accept conventional wisdom, because it…
— Jim Rogers
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When you want to do a big thing, get the mental pattern, make it perfect, know just what it means, enlarge your thought, keep it…
— Ernest Holmes
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Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you…
— Epictetus
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On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute.
— Abraham Lincoln
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I made a written report which is still today in existence. I have a photocopy of it, and I am saying that in production this…
— Adolf Galland
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The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of facts and events,…
— John Henry Newman
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