Devoted Quotes - Page 23

• Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

  Eugene Jarecki

  Unions, Oppression, Antagonism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you will take me for your wife, Walter, I will love you dearly. If you will let me go with you, Walter, I will go to the world's end without fear. I can give up nothing for you - I have nothing to resign, and no one to forsake; but all my love and life shall be devoted to you, and with my last breath I will breathe your name to God if I have sense and memory left.

  Charles Dickens

  Love, Giving Up, Memories

  Charles Dickens, Hablot Knight Browne (1848). “Dombey and Son”, p.505

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• Behold the heart and mind of Angela Davis: open, relentless, and on time! She is as radiant, she is as true, as that invincible sunrise she means means means to advance With all of the faith and all of the grace of her entirely devoted life.

  June Jordan

  Heart, Mean, Grace

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• My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.

  Shmuley Boteach

  Healing, Home, Boys

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I want to know whether you are a person devoted to creating or to exchanging in some respect or other: as a creator you belong tothe free, as an exchanger you are their slave and instrument.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Creativity, Creating, Want

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• Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let's say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.

  Ann Landers

  Fashion, Lunch, Causes

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• I have known nothing the last thirty years save the struggle for human rights on this continent. If it had been a class of men whowere disfranchised and denied their legal rights, I believe I should have devoted my life precisely as I have done in behalf of my own sex.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Sex, Struggle, Believe

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• There have been others also just as true and devoted to the cause--I wish I could name every one--but with such women consecratingtheir lives, failure is impossible!

  Susan B. Anthony

  Failure, Dedication, Names

  Lynn Sherr, Susan B. Anthony (1995). “Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words”, Crown

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• Most personal correspondence of today consists of letters the first half of which are given over to an indexed statement of why the writer hasn't written before, followed by one paragraph of small talk, with the remainder devoted to reasons why it is imperative that the letter be brought to a close.

  Robert Benchley

  Half, Letters, Today

  Robert Benchley (1943). “Benchley beside himself”

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• If by day art is in the service of business, the evenings are devoted to the businessman's enjoyment of it. That is asking a lot of art, but art and the businessman make it work.

  Karl Kraus

  Art, Business, Asking

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• In the course of a life devoted less to living than to reading, I have verified many times that literary intentions and theories are nothing more than stimuli and that the final work usually ignores or even contradicts them.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Reading, Finals, Literature

  "Other Inquisitions". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1952.

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• The guns of the big events rumble through our pages, but the tiny firecrackers are constantly hissing and popping there as well; it appears that much of my life as a journalist has been devoted to sedulously setting off firecrackers.

  Brendan Gill

  Gun, Events, Pages

  Brendan Gill (1975). “Here at the New Yorker”

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• Let us to the Press Devoted Be,
  Its Light will Shine and Speak Us Free.

  David Ruggles

  Light, Shining, Speak

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• Philosophers have actually devoted themselves, in the main, neither to perceiving the world, nor to spinning webs of conceptual theory, but to interpreting the meaning of the civilizations which they have represented, and to attempting the interpretation of whatever minds in the universe, human or divine, they believed to be real.

  Josiah Royce

  Real, Philosophical, Civilization

  Josiah Royce, John Edwin Smith (1988). “Josiah Royce: Selected Writings”, p.311, Paulist Press

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• God has virtually been made an illegal subject in that state institution most devoted to the shaping of the minds and values of our people - the public schools.

  Pat Swindall

  Christian, Religious, School

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• Keep it simple. Trust your imagination. Discover what is unique about your imagination. Don't simply read a story and copy it.
  I go into myself. Then I transcribe what visions I have. If those ideas are original, and you are devoted, you will go far.

  Clive Barker

  Unique, Simple, Ideas

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• A demand for commodities is not a demand for labor. The demand for labor is determined by the amount of capital directly devoted to the remuneration of labor: the demand for commodities simply determines in what direction labor shall be employed.

  Millicent Fawcett

  Demand, Determined, Commodity

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• Discussions without end have been devoted to the subject of peace, and the efforts to obtain a general and lasting peace have been frequent through many years of world history.

  George C. Marshall

  Years, Effort, World

  George C. Marshall's Nobel Lecture in Oslo, Norway, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1953.

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• And I want women to be modest in their appearance. They should wear decent and appropriate clothing and not draw attention to themselves by the way they fix their hair or by wearing gold or pearls or expensive clothes. For women who claim to be devoted to God should make themselves attractive by the good things they do.

  Paul the Apostle

  Clothes, Hair, Gold

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• The genius of the tradition as it has developed in America is the unique combination of giving and voluntary service in behalf of independent organizations and institutions devoted to the public interest.

  Robert L. Payton

  Independent, Unique, Organization

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• It has long been a source of wonder to me why the leading criminological writers--men like Edmund Lester Pearson, H. B. Irving, Filson Young, Canon Brookes, William Bolitho, and Harold Eaton--have not devoted more space to the Greene tragedy; for here, surely, is one of the outstanding murder mysteries of modern times--a case practically unique in the annals of latter-day crime.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Book, Unique, Men

  S.S. Van Dine (1956). “The Greene Murder Case”

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• I study everything that I do to become better all the time at my craft. The beauty for me about being an artist is that the dream will never die because I'm not obsessed with material things and don't care about the money and don't care about the attention of the public but only the love of my fans. For me it's about keeping the dream alive of how much more devoted, how much more honest, how much better of an artist can I become? That's the only fear that I ever have, that the dream will die.

  Lady Gaga

  Dream, Artist, Crafts

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• Usually I get up early every morning and from 6:00 to 10:00 I write. The rest of the time I study and prepare my work or I do other things. But four hours a day are exclusively devoted to writing.

  Elie Wiesel

  Morning, Writing, Up Early

  Source: www.commonwealmagazine.org

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• The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.

  Paul Washer

  Heart, Thoughtful, Errors

  Source: m.blogs.christianpost.com

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• Technology is 50% of rock 'n' roll - the magic, the art, the performance. If you don't have good technicians and a strong road crew who are devoted and believe in you and protect you, you're totally naked.

  Patti Smith

  Art, Strong, Believe

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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