Towards Quotes
2918 Towards quotes by 1897 unique authors
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Virtues are in the middle, the royal way about which the saintly elder (Saint Basil the Great) said, "Travel on the royal way and count…
— Dorotheus of Gaza
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Without compassion, true gratitude is an impossibility. If we are to feel gratitude towards another for their deeds, then we must have compassion for the…
— Derek R. Audette
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Love is the strongest force the world possesses, and yet it is the Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
— Charles de Gaulle
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I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old…
— Hélder Câmara
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Feel that the energy of your willpower can easily deflect tension-causing feelings and frustrations that are directed towards you from the outside world.
— Frederick Lenz
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Both rich and poor nations have a common stake in policies that put the globe on a sustainable development path. The conflict is less between…
— Robert Kuttner
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I was born in a suburb outside of Philadelphia called Lower Merion. After taking many leaves of absence, I just received my BA from NYU…
— Gideon Glick
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One has to remember that every progress that has been made towards peace in the Middle East has come under American leadership.
— Henry A. Kissinger
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I think people are gravitating towards these period dramas because I think they're looking for a simpler time.
— Jeremy Piven
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Ninety percent of our police are fighting terrorists, so we don't have enough oriented towards their key duty, which is enforcement of the law. But…
— Ashraf Ghani
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What is more insane than to vent on senseless things the anger that is felt towards men?
— Seneca the Younger
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I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
— Horace
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It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam…
— William Shakespeare
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The burning conviction that we have a holy duty towards others is often a way of attaching our drowning selves to a passing raft. What…
— Eric Hoffer
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WIDOW, n. A pathetic figure that the Christian world has agreed to take humorously, although Christ's tenderness towards widows was one of the most marked…
— Ambrose Bierce
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In modern European thought a tragedy is occurring in that the original bonds uniting the affirmative attitude towards the world with ethics are, by a…
— Albert Schweitzer
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My beard towards heaven, I feel my nape support / The back of my head, I grow the breast of a harpy / And my…
— Michelangelo
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The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of…
— Pablo Picasso
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My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my…
— Edvard Munch
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The weekly cartoons, as were my plays, came from a sense of criticism, criticism of the times, critical of the culture, of our manners and…
— Jules Feiffer
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,…
— Philip James Bailey
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It is through the human figure that I best succeed in expressing the nearly religious feeling that I have towards life.
— Henri Matisse
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Here, reality is not subordinated to painting, indeed painting seems the handmaid of reality, though we feel it tending towards a procedure which, while not…
— Andre Malraux
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The soul is a fire that darts its rays through all the senses; it is in this fire that existence consists; all the observations and…
— Madame de Stael
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