Toiling Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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It is fitting that yesteryear's swashbuckling newspaper reporter has turned into today's solemn young sobersides nursing a glass of watered white wine after a day…
— Russell Baker
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It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn…
— Phillips Brooks
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Prayer is life passionately wanting, wishing, desiring God's triumph. Prayer is life striving and toiling everywhere and always for that ultimate victory.
— G. Campbell Morgan
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That is the sort of race which one really enjoys - to feel at one's peak on the day when it is necessary, and to…
— Jack Lovelock
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We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession…
— Conrad Black
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Nurses quietly go about their work in a noble profession, uncelebrated soldiers toiling through the days and nights in service to the sick, the injured…
— Steve Lopez
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They maintain that only a dictatorship - their dictatorship, of course - can create the will of the people, while our answer to this is:…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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The professional dedicates himself to mastering technique not because he believes technique is a substitute for inspiration but because he wants to be in possession…
— Steven Pressfield
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If I were to speak of war, it would not be to show you the glories of conquering armies but the mischief and misery they…
— Clara Barton
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I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do with—they…
— John Clare
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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached…
— Camille Flammarion
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When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered…
— James Whitcomb Riley
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Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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We shook hands. For a moment our eyes met - which I found surprisingly destabilizing. Then we pulled back and there was a mement of…
— Stefan Kieszling
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Very close by the CMS shops, hidden about a quarter mile away in the woods, was the prison's rifle range. Correctional officers could spend quality…
— Piper Kerman
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After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.
— Brian K. Vaughan
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He was sailing over a boundless expanse of sea, with a blood-red sky above, and the angry waters, lashed into fury beneath, boiling and eddying…
— Charles Dickens
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My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention
— Charles Dickens
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Say, care-worn man, Whom Duty chains within the city walls, Amid the toiling crowd, how grateful plays The fresh wind oÂ’er thy sickly brow, when…
— Robert Montgomery
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The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with…
— Maxim Gorky
Who Wrote These Toiling Quotes
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