Best Province Quotations
126 Province quotes by 111 unique authors
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The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French,…
— Henry Walter Bates
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In war the chief incalculable is the human will, which manifests itself in resistance, which in turn lies in the province of tactics. Strategy has…
— B. H. Liddell Hart
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Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But…
— Ashraf Ghani
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One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative conception. The inner…
— Edward Hopper
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Does he [the president] possess the power of making war? That power is exclusively vested in Congress. . . . It is the exclusive province…
— William Paterson
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It is a curious thing that the more the world shrinks because of electronic communications, the more limitless becomes the province of the storytelling entertainer.
— Walt Disney
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What does God really look like stripped naked? That's the province of enlightenment...the formless, perfect face of existence.
— Frederick Lenz
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There's little in taking or giving, There's little in water or wine: This living, this living, this living, Was never a project of mine. Oh,…
— Dorothy Parker
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Ethics occupies a central place in philosophy because it is concerned with sin, with the origin of good and evil and with moral valuations. And…
— Nikolai Berdyaev
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"Are we alone in the universe?" This is a question which goes back to the dawn of history, but for most of human history it…
— Paul Davies
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I know no national boundary where the Negro is concerned. The whole world is my province until Africa is free.
— Marcus Garvey
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It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
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I tour as many countries as possible, and I've toured every state in America, plus every province in Canada.
— Elton John
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While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is…
— Dorothea Lange
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It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.
— Liam Neeson
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
— Karl Popper
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Philanthropy is involved with basic innovations that transform society, not simply maintaining the status quo or filling basic social needs that were formerly the province…
— David Rockefeller
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I was born in a family of landless peasants, in Azinhaga, a small village in the province of Ribatejo, on the right bank of the…
— Jose Saramago
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There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight implications of quotidian…
— Lionel Shriver
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I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown…
— Aldous Huxley
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Spontaneity is the province of youth
— Jacqueline Carey
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In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense.
— Voltaire
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Kindness and compassion towards all living things is a mark of a civilized society. Conversely, cruelty, whether it is directed against human beings or against…
— Cesar Chavez
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To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
— Allen Ginsberg
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Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.
— Paula Fox
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