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2055 Quotations
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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
[ Change ]
A Course In Miracles
24 votes
One man can be a crucial ingredient on a team, but one man cannot make a team.
[ Teams and Teamwork ]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
21 votes
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
[ Management ]
Dean Acheson
26 votes
The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.
[ Worry ]
James Truslow Adams
24 votes
'Tis not in mortals to command success, but we'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it.
[ Merit ]
Joseph Addison
25 votes
What pity is it That we can die, but once to serve our country.
[ Patriotism ]
Joseph Addison
25 votes
Young people soon give, and forget insults, but old age is slow in both.
[ Insults ]
Joseph Addison
21 votes
She was short on intellect, but long on shape.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
George Ade
18 votes
We all live under the same sky, but we don't all have the same horizon.
[ Humankind ]
Konrad Adenauer
24 votes
It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.
[ Promises ]
Aeschylus
23 votes
There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly.
[ Difficulties ]
Publius Terentius Afer
26 votes
I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor.
[ Humor ]
Edward Albee
24 votes
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
[ Will and Will Power ]
Leon Battista Alberti
23 votes
In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity.
[ Faith ]
Alexander The Great
21 votes
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live.
[ Courage ]
Vittorio, Conte Di Alfieri
24 votes
I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
Woody Allen
23 votes
The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..
[ Marriage ]
Woody Allen
17 votes
The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do.
[ Work ]
American Proverb
22 votes
Clever people will recognize and tolerate nothing but cleverness.
[ Intelligence and Intellectuals ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
25 votes
It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.
[ Character ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
24 votes
Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires, but according to our powers.
[ Power ]
Henri Frederic Amiel
22 votes
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun.
[ Peace ]
Martin Amis
22 votes
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
[ Anger ]
Maya Angelou
22 votes
The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity.
[ Conformity ]
Dr. Robert Anthony
18 votes
Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.
[ Experience ]
Minna Antrim
23 votes
When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird.
[ Men and Women ]
Minna Antrim
24 votes
By nature all men are equal in liberty, but not in other endowments.
[ Equality ]
St. Thomas Aquinas
23 votes
None but a mule denies his family.
[ Family ]
Arabian Proverb
23 votes
A speech should not just be a sharing of information, but a sharing of yourself.
[ Speakers and Speaking ]
Ralph Archbold
23 votes
It sounds extraordinary but it?s a fact that balance sheets can make fascinating reading.
[ Finance ]
Mary Archer
22 votes
Oh, love is real enough; you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy -- and that is life.
[ Love ]
Jean Anouilh Ardele
24 votes
The Third World is not a reality but an ideology.
[ Third World ]
Hannah Arendt
23 votes
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.
[ Confidence ]
Aristotle
26 votes
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
[ Dignity ]
Aristotle
18 votes
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them.
[ Character ]
Aristotle
22 votes
Every rascal is not a thief, but every thief is a rascal.
[ Crime and Criminals ]
Aristotle
23 votes
In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
[ Revolutions and Revolutionaries ]
Aristotle
23 votes
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