Soberly Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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Whatever we focus on is bound to expand. Where we see the negative, we call forth more negative. And where we see the positive, we…
— Marianne Williamson
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A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
— Benjamin Franklin
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To overcome negative emotions, consulting intuition is always useful. How can it guide you. During nervous periods, it offers a more centered alternative to agitation.…
— Judith Orloff
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The philosopher is like a man fasting in the midst of universal intoxication. He alone perceives the illusion of which all creatures are the willing…
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is time for the truth to be brought out... Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about the UFOs. But through…
— Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter
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Stand up, on this Thanksgiving Day, stand upon your feet. Believe in man. Soberly and with clear eyes, believe in your own time and place.…
— Phillips Brooks
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How to get the best of it all? One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that…
— George Leigh Mallory
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The wood-carver can fashion whatever he will. Yet his products are but toys of the moment, to be glanced at in jest, not fashioned according…
— Murasaki Shikibu
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Are you becoming more sweet-spirited, more like Jesus? Are you looking soberly in the mirror each day and praying, ‘Lord, I want to conform to…
— David Wilkerson
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If death is truly a curse,' Spock said, as soberly as some power pronouncing a hundred years of sleep, but with a glint of private,…
— Diane Duane
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Cloning may be good and it may be bad. Probably it's a bit of both. The question must not be greeted with reflex hysteria but…
— Richard Dawkins
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Listen soberly: Just be 'I Am'; just stay here! ... There's nothing that can stop you from following this simple advice.
— Mooji
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Sorrow is God's plowshare that turns up and subsoils the depths of the soul, that it may yield richer harvests. If we had never fallen,…
— Lettie Cowman
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We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some…
— Agnes Repplier
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As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone…
— Sylvia Plath
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If your news must be bad, tell it soberly and promptly.
— Henry Howarth Bashford
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All extremes does perfect reason flee, And wishes to be wise quite soberly.
— Moliere
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A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you…
— William Graham Sumner
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When he ran from a cop, his transitions from accelerating walk to easy jog trot to brisk canter to headlong gallop to flogged-piston sprint .…
— James Agee
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Democracy doesn't require a whole lot of work of its citizens, but it requires some: It requires taking a good look outside once in a…
— Matt Taibbi
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