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629 quotes by 499 authors

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or… — D. H. Lawrence
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir to wealth who… — Edward Kennedy
For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say,… — Saint Augustine
When he spoke, what tender words he used! So softly, that like flakes of feathered snow, They melted as they fell. — John Dryden
Greek mathematics is the real thing. The Greeks first spoke a language which modern mathematicians can understand... So Greek mathematics is 'permanent', more permanent even… — G. H. Hardy
eBay had two main things that really spoke to me. It enabled individuals to do things that they could not have done without the Web.… — Meg Whitman
He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie… — Arthur Conan Doyle
If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
I'm at the age when my friends have started having kids, and when my first good friend had a baby, the first time I picked… — Jessica Pare
I sent my ex-husband a bully card: You held hate in one heart and spoke niceties with the other, you laid warm hands upon me… — Jenny Jay
I once visited an RSPCA hospital in Norfolk. I spoke to the vets working there, and asked them how many times they had had to… — Ian Cawsey
While [the Arians], like men sprung from a dunghill, truly "spoke from the earth" [Jn. 3:31], the bishops [of Nicea], not having invented their phrases… — Athanasius of Alexandria
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.
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my… — Jackie DeShannon
Like MoliÃ¨re's M. Jourdain, who spoke prose all his life without knowing it, mathematicians have been reasoning for at least two millennia without being aware… — Ernest Nagel
Socrates and then Archesilaus used to make their pupils speak first; they spoke afterwards. 'Obest plerumque iss discere volunt authoritas eorum qui docent.' [For those… — Michel de Montaigne
"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said… — Maximilian Kolbe
I can remember crawling through the window where he was in the hospital... He said, 'You have a gift... keep training for me.' I s'pose… — Dawn Fraser
There was a disturbance in my heart, a voice that spoke there and said, I want, I want, I want! It happened every afternoon, and… — Saul Bellow
Without the changed conditions, the product of a lost war, a revolution and a pervasive sense of national humiliation, Hitler would have remained a nobody.… — Ian Kershaw

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