Worthy Quotes
1482 quotes by 1091 authors
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Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip.
— Aristophanes
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners…
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
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Life deprived of beauty is not worthy of being called human.
— Luis Barragan
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There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.
— Charles Baudelaire
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We run around so much - with the best intentions: I want to save the rain forest. I've gotta clean up the oceans. I've gotta…
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it…
— Wendell Berry
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Land: A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation…
— Ambrose Bierce
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The liberally educated person is one who is able to resist the easy and preferred answers, not because he is obstinate but because he knows…
— Allan Bloom
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Unfortunately, in some parts of the country, some kids are taught at an early age that being different is somehow bad or wrong or worthy…
— Matt Bomer
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Being a monarchist - saying that one small group is born more worthy of respect than another - is just as warped and strange as…
— Julie Burchill
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I am not worthy to be on a Mariah Carey record. She's a true artist, so I just step back and watch the genius occur.
— Nick Cannon
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation.
— Jimmy Carter
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In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
— Giacomo Casanova
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O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always…
— Chanakya
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Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
— George Chapman
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We inherit nothing truly, but what our actions make us worthy of.
— George Chapman
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A lot of my life happened in great, wonderful bursts of good fortune, and then I would race to be worthy of it.
— Julie Andrews
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Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, 'I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven…
— Maya Angelou
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Behold a contest worthy of a god, a brave man matched in conflict with adversity.
— Seneca the Younger
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