Quotes of Various - somelinesforyou

“ Success is sweet: the sweeter if long delayed and attained through manifold struggles and defeats. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ But O the truth, the truth. The many eyes That look on it! The diverse things they see. ”

- George Meredith

“ My son, beware of a plain damsel who charmeth thee, for she needeth much wile, and useth diverse weapons. ”

- Frank Gelett Burgess

“ Time rushes toward us with its hospital tray of infinitely varied narcotics, even while it is preparing us for its inevitably fatal operation. ”

- Tennessee Williams

“ Our commitment to human rights, primarily of the individual, but also of our diverse ethnic and religious heritage for which we suffered, must be absolute. ”

- Jalal Talabani

“ Being a doctor has taught me a lot about directing. You're doing the same thing: You're reconstructing the manifold of behavior to the point where an audience says, yes, that's exactly like people I know. ”

- Jonathan Miller

“ Love is what we call the situation which occurs when two people who are sexually comptatible discover that they can also tolerate one another in various other circumstances. ”

- Marc Maihueird

“ The gods, likening themselves to all kinds of strangers, go in various disguises from city to city, observing the wrongdoing and the righteousness of men. ”

- Homer

“ In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment. ”

- Pliny the Elder

“ The philosophers have already perceived the world in various ways; the point is to change it. ”

- Karl Marx

“ To him who in love of Nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language. ”

- Bryant

“ I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. ”

- E. M. Forster

“ I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ In the final analysis, "style" is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation. ”

- Susan Sontag

“ It is through chance that, from among the various individuals of which each of us is composed, one emerges rather than another. ”

- Henry de Montherlant

“ It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past. ”

- Charles Wright

“ Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them. ”

- Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

“ Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, possibility, complexity, and difficulty. ”

- Lionel Trilling

“ Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place. ”

- John Milton

“ Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic — a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. ”

- Karl Marx

“ We need a sense of the value of time — that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities. ”

- Arnold Bennett

“ What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee? ”

- John Milton

“ Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. ”

- Saint Augustine

“ I listen to a mixture of old jazz, contemporary, pop, some world beat stuff and various odds and ends. ”

- Walter Becker

“ I am the epitome of a walking contradiction for various reasons, only one of which being that I feel my existence is of heaven and hell. ”

- Kim Elizabeth

“ A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. ”

- Evan Hunter

“ Time extracts various values from a painter's work. When these values are exhausted the pictures are forgotten, and the more a picture has to give, the greater it is. ”

- Henri Matisse

“ We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours. ”

- John Stuart Mill

“ I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice. ”

- Zack de la Rocha
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