Quotes for September 2750 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 27: the anniversary does not move.

• Allow motion to equal emotion.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 61 reads

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• An economist's guess is liable to be as good as anybody else s.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 63 reads

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• Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.9 · 11 votes · 71 reads

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• Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 32 reads

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• Cities force growth and make people talkative and entertaining, but they also make them artificial.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 121 reads

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• Computers double their performance every month.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 43 votes · 117 reads

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• Donuts. Is there anything they can't do?

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.2 · 33 votes · 12 reads

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• Each success only buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.1 · 31 votes · 146 reads

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• Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 151 reads

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• Eating is touch carried to the bitter end.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 133 reads

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• Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.1 · 32 votes · 80 reads

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• Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.1 · 63 votes · 164 reads

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• Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 191 reads

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• Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 74 reads

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• I accept reality and dare not question it.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 46 reads

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• I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language - religion - government - blood - identity in these makes men of one country.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 194 reads

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• I grew up in a family of peasants, and it was there that I saw the way that, for example, our wheat fields suffered as a result of dust storms, water erosion and wind erosion; I saw the effect of that on life - on human life.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 163 reads

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• I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five years.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 131 reads

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• If everything is perfect, language is useless. This is true for animals. If animals don't speak, it's because everything's perfect for them. If one day they start to speak, it will be because the world has lost a certain sort of perfection.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 142 reads

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• It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  4.9 · 61 votes · 90 reads

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• It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 5 votes · 151 reads

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• Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.5 · 40 votes · 177 reads

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• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 172 reads

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• Liberty can not be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 89 reads

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• Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 41 reads

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• Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of causing disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 111 reads

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• No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 7 votes · 180 reads

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• Not being known doesn't stop the truth from being true.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.4 · 20 votes · 22 reads

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• Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.8 · 55 votes · 54 reads

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• Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 33 votes · 62 reads

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• Of course what is talked about in the U.N. General Assembly is very important. Officials, the leaders of nations, appear there to speak of the most important topics - what they perceive to be the most important topics.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 1 reads

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• Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 163 reads

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• On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 10 reads

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• One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.8 · 57 votes · 190 reads

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• Only the prepared speaker deserves to be confident.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 62 reads

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• Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 67 reads

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• Since we cannot get what we like, let us like what we can get.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 142 reads

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• The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 94 reads

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• The acceptance that all that is solid has melted into the air, that reality and morality are not givens but imperfect human constructs, is the point from which fiction begins.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 176 reads

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• The best friend is likely to acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is based on the talent for friendship.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.5 · 32 votes · 75 reads

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• The next time someone tells you we can trim the budget by cutting aid, I hope you will ask whether it will come at the cost of more people dying.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 159 reads

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• The people who are absent are the ideal; those who are present seem to be quite commonplace.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 19 votes · 161 reads

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• The real story of Facebook is just that we've worked so hard for all this time. I mean, the real story is actually probably pretty boring, right? I mean, we just sat at our computers for six years and coded.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 78 reads

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• There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 126 reads

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• There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 76 reads

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• This is a perverse thing, personally, but I would rather be in the cycle where people are underestimating us. It gives us latitude to go out and make big bets that excite and amaze people.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 117 reads

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• We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 59 votes · 109 reads

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• We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 195 reads

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• When I wished to sing of love, it turned to sorrow. And when I wished to sing of sorrow, it was transformed for me into love.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 53 reads

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