Things Happen Fora Reason Quotes
40 quotes by 32 authors
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War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don't bother with other things.
— Marilyn Horne
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Consciousness is our only reprieve from Time.
— Mason Cooley
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Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice…
— George Eliot
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
— Victor Hugo
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
— Oscar Wilde
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Speech is the voice of the heart.
— Anna Quindlen
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There came a burst of thunder sound; The boyOh! where was he? MAsk of the winds, that far around With fragments strewed the sea;
— Felicia Dorothea Hemans
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Show me a man who has acted, and who has not been the victim and slave of his action. What they have done commits and…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The lounge of the main hotel is full of jollity, with large comfortable men sitting in braces; the bar is packed withtalkative intellectuals, full of…
— Anthony Sampson
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In the swamp in secluded recesses, A shy and hidden bird is warbling a song. Solitary the thrush, The hermit withdrawn to himself, avoiding the…
— Walt Whitman
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My only objection to the arrangements there is the two-in-a-bed system. It is bad.... But let your words andconduct be perfectly puresuch as your mother…
— Rutherford Birchard Haye
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George Shears ... was hanged in a barn near the store. The rope was thrown over a beam, and he was asked to walk up…
— For The State Of Montana
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To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in whichmen, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with…
— William Cobbett
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The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not exercising true masculinity,…
— Frank Pittman
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We have been struggling along for several hundred years with our system of education ... the question of what we should do for the Negro…
— William Howard Taft
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Heaven nor hell shall impedemy designs, said Manfred, advancing again to seize the princess. At that instant the portrait of his grandfather ... uttered a…
— Horace Walpole
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His eloquence was of every kind, and he excelled in the argumentative as well as in the declamatory way. But his invectives were terrible, and…
— Philip Dormer Stanhope
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He who has never failed somewhere, that man can notbe great. Failure is the true test of greatness. And if it be said, that continual…
— Herman Melville
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Babies are necessary to grown-ups. A new baby is like the beginning of all thingswonder, hope, a dream of possibilities. In a world that is…
— Eda Le Shan
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