Towards Quotes
2918 Towards quotes by 1897 unique authors
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Few tasks are more like the torture of Sisyphus than housework, with its endless repetition: the clean becomes soiled, the soiled is made clean, over…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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One would love nonetheless to know how to be a man, how to be a woman before God, in the mirror of one's own conscience,…
— Tariq Ramadan
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Filling a need is not merely good business; it's a basic attitude towards life. If you see a need, do whatever you can to meet…
— George Foreman
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After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely…
— Antonio Gramsci
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My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the…
— Abdul Kalam
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On the acquisition of Louisiana, in the year 1803, the attention of the government of the United States, was early directed towards exploring and improving…
— Meriwether Lewis
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What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
— Thomas Goodwin
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The point at which society moves towards our views is a point where we are significantly closer to the vegan world that we are all…
— Bruce Friedrich
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It [the Euro] is a decisive step towards ever closer political and institutional union in Europe. Above all, it is political.
— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi
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For a quick lap at the Nrburgring, you've probably experienced more in seven minutes...than most people have experienced in all their life in the way…
— Jackie Stewart
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The chief handicap of the blind is not blindness, but the attitude of seeing people towards them.
— Helen Keller
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World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The international community must offer short-term emergency measures to meet critical needs. But it must also make longer-term investments to promote food production and agricultural…
— Ban Ki-moon
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I just want you guys to see it also. To see what type of words that are said toward me, and towards us as professional…
— LeBron James
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One of the most destructive forces in the world is love. For the following reason: The world is a conglomeration of objects, no, of events…
— Kathy Acker
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Artistic creation, after all, is not subject to absolute laws, valid from age to age; since it is related to the more general aim of…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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When I speak of the aspiration towards the beautiful, of the ideal as the ultimate aim of art, which grows from a yearning for that…
— Andrei Tarkovsky
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O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens…
— Abdelkader El Djezairi
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But at a certain point, and I don't really know... people have asked me this. I don't know exactly what it was that pushed me…
— Peter Bogdanovich
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Philosophical argument, trying to get someone to believe something whether he wants to believe it or not, is not, I have held, a nice way…
— Robert Nozick
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Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent…
— Oscar Wilde
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The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready…
— Tacitus
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The communications of humanity obviously are trending towards that future point at which virtually all information will be spontaneously available and copyable at the individual…
— Gene Youngblood
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Whatever sympathy I feel towards religions, whatever admiration for some of their adherents, whatever historical or biological necessity I see in them, whatever metaphorical truth,…
— John Fowles
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