Otherwise Quotes
2652 Otherwise quotes by 1879 unique authors
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Between now and 2015, we must make sure that promises made become promises kept. The consequences of doing otherwise are profound: death, illness and despair,…
— Ban Ki-moon
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You think that your silence on certain topics, perhaps in the face of injustice, or unkindness, or mean-spiritedness, causes others to reserve judgement of you.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We are here to witness the creation and to abet it. We are here to notice each thing so each thing gets noticed. Together we…
— Annie Dillard
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Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to…
— Noam Chomsky
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It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the first time after long, like the flowers in spring, to reawaken…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Old custom is hard to break and scarce any man will be led otherwise than seemeth good unto himself.
— Thomas a Kempis
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If they had $2.00 for food, they had to give $1.00 to the union. Otherwise, they would never get out of the trap of poverty.…
— Cesar Chavez
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Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Enjoyment always has a spoiling, otherwise it cannot be so.
— John Donne
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Expose not the secret failings of mankind, otherwise you must verily bring scandal upon them and distrust upon yourself.
— Saadi
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For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the…
— Albert Einstein
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial, is to say they are…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The right to criticize: the right to hold unpopular beliefs; the right to protest; the right of independent thought. The exercise of these rights should…
— Margaret Chase Smith
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Miracles happen to those who believe in them. Otherwise why does not the Virgin Mary appear to Lamaists, Mohammedans, or Hindus who have never heard…
— Bernard Berenson
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The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never have otherwise occurred...unforeseen incidents…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Man would be "otherwise." That's the essence of the specifically human.
— Antonio Machado
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Certain old men prefer to rise at dawn, taking a cold bath and a long walk with an empty stomach and otherwise mortifying the flesh.…
— Ambrose Bierce
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We have gone forth from our shores repeatedly over the last hundred years and we've done this as recently as the last year in Afghanistan…
— Colin Powell
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If the enemy is to be coerced, you must put him in a situation that is even more unpleasant than the sacrifice you call on…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Among the most striking things that I have learned is how much we have in common. I've sat down with people everywhere, discussing what was…
— Hillary Clinton
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