Opening Quotes
1144 quotes by 922 authors
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May [our Declaration of Independence] be to the world, what I believe it will be (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and…
— Ronald Reagan
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By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Death is the opening of a more subtle life. In the flower, it sets free the perfume; in the chrysalis, the butterfly; in man, the…
— Unknown Author
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Having made a sufficient opening to admit my finger into the abdomen, I passed it between the intestines to the spine, and felt the aorta…
— Astley Cooper
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Here's me opening my wrists before breakfast, Christmas day, and here's you asking if it hurt. Here's where I choose between mea culpa and Why…
— Michael Donaghy
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Upon the whole, Chymistry is as yet but an opening science, closely connected with the usefull and ornamental arts, and worthy the attention of the…
— Joseph Black
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This [the opening of the Vatican City radio station built by Marconi earlier in 1931] was a new demonstration of the harmony between science and…
— Pope Pius XI
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...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its…
— Pat Condell
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...Spiritual opening is not a withdrawal to some imagined realm or safe cave. It is not a pulling away, but a touching of all the…
— Jack Kornfield
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We discovered, like infants opening their eyes for the first time, that God's coming upon earth out of love for us had radically changed the…
— Chiara Lubich
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The true beloveds of this world are in their lover's eyes lilacs opening, ship lights, school bells, a landscape, remembered conversations, friends, a child's Sunday,…
— Truman Capote
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Suddenly, quietly, you realize that - from this moment forth - you will no longer walk through this life alone. Like a new sun this…
— Robert Frost
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Because there is liberating power in each and every truth, the one who walks in the truth in all his ways will be set free.…
— Johan Oscar Smith
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It's a beautiful thing, diving into the cool crisp water and then just sort of being able to pull your body through the water and…
— Dawn Fraser
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...it is appropriate to have an over representation of factual presentations on how dangerous it is, as a predicate for opening up the audience to…
— Al Gore
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A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.
— Martin Heidegger
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We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million…
— Norman Myers
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Today [the voice of women] is being heard loud and clear. But I do not read the welcome triumph of feminism, social, economic, and creative,…
— E. O. Wilson
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On opening sentences: "If in the first chapter a hurricane is going to blow down an oak tree which falls through the kitchen roof, there's…
— Unknown Author
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