Lessons Quotes

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Sublime places repeat in grand terms a lesson that ordinary life typically teaches viciously: that the universe is mightier than we are, that we are… — Alain de Botton
Sometimes you just have to get a shock to grow up and wake up, and I've had lots of shocks because it's as though I… — Marianne Faithfull
The first lesson is that you can't lose a war if you have command of the air, and you can't win a war if you… — Jimmy Doolittle
I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well.… — Sigrid Undset
It was a noteworthy lesson, even for someone who'd been fed a daily diet of italicized lessons: that people in high places, luminaries with advanced… — Elinor Lipman
Didn't we learn our lesson from Planet of the Apes? — Zach Braff
By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons — Marie Dressler
To win this league, the toughest league in the country, and to be outright champs is a tribute to their effort. It's a great lesson… — Thad Matta
Until, modern times when it became mostly a civic task, education was considered a sacred work. It was sacred because it involved the indwelling spirit… — Michael Meade
Remember, thou canst be brought into no condition, be it ever so severe, where Love has not been before thee and where its tender lesson… — Mary Baker Eddy
We shall do well ever to remember, that Christianity is not a mere speculative theory, that is to inform the mind; but a great practical… — Charles Simeon
There are no pat answers - we're pushing through some new frontiers, and lessons of the past don't always apply. — James L. Barksdale
My killer instinct is so strong that lions call me to take lessons. — Miguel Torres
The fall of Rome is often regarded as an object lesson in the wages of sin. Its contemporaries, however, more frequently laid the blame on… — Orosius
My wartime experiences developing a code that utilized the Navajo language taught how important our Navajo culture is to our country. For me that is… — Chester Nez
I have learned the lesson the hard way and I hope it serves as a lesson to lots of other young people. I would also… — Richard Bacon
Lessons, however, that enter the soul against its will never grow roots and will never be preserved inside it. — Plato
The lesson has already been learned with alcohol prohibition. We tried to engineer an alcohol-free society and ended up with huge criminal enterprises, government corruption,… — Kurt Schmoke
It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The… — Noam Chomsky
Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt. — Benjamin Franklin

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