All Things Quotes - Page 8

• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Spring, Real

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• All things are only transitory.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Literature, Transitory

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• Oh my gosh, I’d give so much advice to a younger version of myself. I would say it really does get better as you get older. The things that mean so much, the things that seem like, you know, it’s going to cause the end of the world, are all things that I’ve already forgotten.

  Ginnifer Goodwin

  Mean, Giving, Advice

  "Ginnifer Goodwin Talks Hygiene, Beauty Routines And Her Onscreen Characters For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Kari Friedlander, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 7, 2013.

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• When I arrived at Columbia, I gave up acting and became interested in all things French. French poetry, French history, French literature.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Acting, Literature, Columbia

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• Above the cloud with its shadow is the star with its light. Above all things reverence thyself.

  Pythagoras

  Stars, Self Esteem, Self Worth

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• It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

  Francois Rabelais

  Time, Father, Feelings

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• Time, which wears down and diminishes all things, augments and increases good deeds, because a good turn liberally offered to a reasonable man grows continually through noble thought and memory.

  Francois Rabelais

  Memories, Men, Kind Deeds

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• Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  New Beginnings, Blessing, Seeds

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.105, Northwestern University Press

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• Every great man is always being helped by everybody, for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

  John Ruskin

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Great Person

  "Frondes Agrestes, Readings in 'Modern Painters' Chosen at Her Pleasures".

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• Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Patience, Patient Person

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• All things must; man is the only creature that wills.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Willpower, Creatures

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• Above all things, I must not get angry. If I do get angry I knock all the teeth out of the mouth of the poor wretch who has angered me.

  Franz Schubert

  Teeth, Mouths, Poor

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• Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

  Chief Seattle

  Life, Lonely, Nature

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• All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

  Chief Seattle

  Native American, Men, Air

  Seattle (Chief) (1976). “Chief Seattle's Testimony”

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• We cannot conceive of matter being formed of nothing, since things require a seed to start from... Therefore there is not anything which returns to nothing, but all things return dissolved into their elements.

  William Shakespeare

  Elements, Matter, Return

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• When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.

  Simon Sinek

  Wall, Book, Kids

  "Look On The Bright Side" by Simon Sinek, www.askmen.com.

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• Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.

  Adam Smith

  Money, Labour Movement, Labor Day

  Adam Smith (1827). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.13

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• Christ did not die to forgive sinners who go on treasuring anything above seeing and savoring God. And people who would be happy in heaven if Christ were not there, will not be there. The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God. It's a way of overcoming every obstacle to everlasting joy in God. If we don't want God above all things, we have not been converted by the gospel.

  John Piper

  People, Joy, Heaven

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• He knew that all things human are transitory and therefore that it must cease one day or another. He looked forward to that day with eager longing. Love was like a parasite in his heart, nourishing a hateful existence on his life's blood; it absorbed his existence so intensely that he could take pleasure in nothing else.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Heart, Blood, One Day

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.416, Diversion Books

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• Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Change, Men, Path

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.

  Suzanne Collins

  World, Rue, Asks

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.206, Scholastic Inc.

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• All things pass in time. We are far less significant than we imagine ourselves to be. All that we are, all that we have wrought, is but a shadow, no matter how durable it may seem. One day, when the last man has breathed his last breath, the sun will shine, the mountains will stand, the rain will fall, the streams will whisper—and they will not miss him.

  Jim Butcher

  Rain, Fall, Men

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Princeps' Fury”, p.418, Penguin

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• The true science of martial arts means practicing them in such a way that they will be useful at any time, and to teach them in such a way that they will be useful in all things.

  Miyamoto Musashi

  Art, Mean, Way

  Miyamoto Musashi, Musashi Miyamoto, Thomas F. Cleary (2005). “The Book of Five Rings”, p.6, Shambhala Publications

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• One cannot seperate truth from actions...Physically inevitable or not, truth stands above all things. It is independant of who has the best army, who can deliver the longest sermons, or even who has the most priests. It can be pushed down, but it will always surface. Truth is the one thing you can never intimidate.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Army, Action, Truth Is

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• I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of everything my lying memory tells me. I think I have no senses. I believe that body, shape, extension, motion, location are functions. What is there then that can be taken as true? Perhaps only this one thing, that nothing at all is certain.

  Rene Descartes

  Memories, Lying, Believe

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