Towards Quotes
2918 Towards quotes by 1897 unique authors
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[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose…
— Karl Marx
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I am certain I have not a right feeling towards women -- at this moment I am striving to be just to them, but I…
— John Keats
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To a degree which is difficult to determine, the esoteric impulse in twentieth-century music, literature and the arts reflects calculation. It looks to the flattery…
— George Steiner
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I think that if you feel imaginatively towards a subject, you really shouldn't do it in a journalistic context, because then you're just fabricating, and…
— Hilton Als
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I was a jackass in many ways. I projected that cruelty towards others, that kid whose hand I was wringing. If I could have hurt…
— Gary Shteyngart
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There's quite an overlap between musicians - especially drummers - who have an affection and a proclivity towards comedy and comedians who fantasize about being…
— David Cross
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I was always taught as a kid that if there's anything you want in life, you've got to work towards it. I guess that sort…
— Paul Weller
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If we're thinking about old civilizations, those that formed a long time ago and there were stars and planets around long before Earth even existed,…
— Paul Davies
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I'm a total one-hour drama addict. I think when you're a comedian, you tend towards dramas because that's the less stressful thing to watch.
— Sarah Silverman
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The women's movement and gay and lesbian movements always come together, and our adversaries are always the same because the male supremacist, patriarchal, ultra-right-wing, religious…
— Gloria Steinem
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The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the…
— Steve Coogan
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Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone…
— Pope Francis
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This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and…
— Pope Francis
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Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
— Sigmund Freud
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I gravitate towards gravitas.
— Morgan Freeman
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The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot -…
— Sigmund Freud
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They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly…
— Stephen Fry
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I was raised by a lady that was crippled all her life but she did everything for me and she raised me. She washed our…
— Ernest Gaines
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We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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In the summer you want fresh, light and sort of quick things; in winter you want things that are comforting, so your body really tells…
— Ina Garten
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Greatness is a road leading towards the unknown.
— Charles de Gaulle
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What we all have in common is an appreciation of kindness and compassion; all the religions have this. We all lean towards love.
— Richard Gere
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People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind…
— Graham Greene
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I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran…
— Christopher Columbus
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He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars…
— Confucius
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