(1076 quotes found)
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
Charles F. Kettering
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.”
Vincent van Gogh
“Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it is almost palpable: the vast majority lack an intellectual conscience; indeed, it often seems to me that to demand such a thing is to be in the most populous cities as solitary as in the desert.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“But what of black women? . . . I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.”
W. E. B. Du Bois
“Are we at last brought to such humiliating and debasing degradation, that we cannot be trusted with arms for our defense?”
Patrick Henry
“I think she must have been very strictly brought up, she's so desperately anxious to do the wrong thing correctly”
H. H. Munro
“A kingdom that has once been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be brought back to life.”
Sun Tzu
“They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, / They brought me bitter news to hear, and bitter tears to shed.”
William Johnson Cory
“When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual. One is no longer regarded by the whole population as an unapproachable and uninteresting animal to be cheated and robbed.”
Aleister Crowley
“Those of us who were brought up as Christians and have lost our faith have retained the sense of sin without the saving belief in redemption. This poisons our thought and so paralyses us in action.”
Cyril Connolly
