(206 quotes found)
“You are the person who has to decide. Whether you'll do it or toss it aside; You are the person who makes up your mind. Whether you'll lead or will linger behind. Whether you'll try for the goal that's afar. Or just be contented to stay where you are.”
Edgar A. Guest
“Last of all Hurin stood alone. Then he cast aside his shield, and wielded an axe two-handed; and it is sung that the axe smoked in the black blood of the troll-guard of Gothmog until it withered, and each time that he slew Hurin cried 'Aure entuluva!”
J.R.R. Tolkien
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?”
Walt Whitman
“It is difficult suddenly to put aside a long-standing love; it is difficult, but somehow you must do it.”
Catullus
“I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended,”
Galileo Galilei
“Nothing important has ever come out of San Francisco, Rice-a-Roni aside.”
Michael O'Donoghue
“Move over, $7,000 coffeepots! Stand aside, $400 hammers! We now have the $792 doormat!”
William Proxmire
“We haven?t completely put it aside, but it is on the back burner, and there?s no talk of when it is coming back, or if it is coming back. We have bigger priorities right now.”
Benet Wilson
“It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.”
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
George Washington
