(460 quotes found)
“It's the constant and determined effort that breaks down all resistance, sweeps away all obstacles.”
Claude M. Bristol
“The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.”
Byron R. White
“The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility”
Charles Caleb Colton
“I am interested in madness. I believe it is the biggest thing in the human race, and the most constant. How do you take away from a man his madness without also taking away his identity?”
William Saroyan
“A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.”
Washington Irving
“To keep up even a worthwhile tradition means vitiating the idea behind it which must necessarily be in a constant state of evolution: it is mad to try to express new feelings in a mummified form”
Alfred Jarry
“One part is absorbed in the blood to compensate for the losses that are constantly taking place through respiration and perspiration, and all the material that Nature cannot use is rejected in the form of excrement.”
Antoine Lavoisier
“Here among the constant ruins and rebuilding of civilizations lies the coexistence of diversity and intolerance.”
David K Shipler
“Constant revolutionizing of production distinguish the bourgeois epoch from all earlier ones. All fixed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind.”
Karl Marx
“Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform”
William Penn
Bookmark
