(477 quotes found)
“The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.”
Confucius
“Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the same in regard to anger”
Seneca
“Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly.”
Epictetus
“We must cut our coat according to our cloth, and adapt ourselves to changing circumstances”
W. R. Inge
“According to classical aerodynamics, it is impossible for a bumblebee to fly”
Doctor Who
“I want relations which are not purely personal, based on purely personal qualities; but relations based upon some unanimous accord in truth or belief, and a harmony of purpose, rather than of personality. I am weary of personality. Let us be easy and impersonal, not forever fingering over our own souls, and the souls of our acquaintances, but trying to create a new life, a new common life, a new complete tree of life from the roots that are within us.”
D.H. Lawrence
“If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.”
Johann Sebastian Bach
“The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race”
Calvin Coolidge
“The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly”
Corra Harris
