Then Quotes
10323 quotes by 6342 authors
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
— Hannah Arendt
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
— Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those…
— Aristotle
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Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do…
— Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in…
— Aristotle
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The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but…
— Aristotle
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it…
— Paul Auster
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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It is all right to hold a conversation but you should let go of it now and then.
— Richard Armour
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Retired is being tired twice, I've thought, first tired of working, then tired of not.
— Richard Armour
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I try to live my life where I end up at a point where I have no regrets. So I try to choose the road…
— Darren Aronofsky
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that…
— Arthur Ashe
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization, format it - which is…
— Julian Assange
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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
— Francis of Assisi
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I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to…
— Chinua Achebe
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I mean I can do it when I'm very relaxed, and with good friends, then I think I can be amusing.
— Rowan Atkinson
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
— Rowan Atkinson
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Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Of course, some would say if you have a performing inclination, then you should become a lawyer. That's a platform we use, or a priest.…
— Rowan Atkinson
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and start practicing again. We have…
— Chinua Achebe
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