Mortals Quotes - Page 36

• I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Humble, Humility

  Mahatma Gandhi (2012). “The Essential Gandhi: An Anthology of His Writings on His Life, Work, and Ideas”, p.180, Vintage

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• I guess intractable right-wing ideologues are my mortal enemy.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Wings, Enemy, Ideologues

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• To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

  Frank Herbert

  Demise, Mortality, Ends

  Frank Herbert (2008). “Children of Dune”, p.141, Penguin

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• Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood, the source of evil one, and one of good; from thence the cup of mortal man he fills, blessings to these, to those distributes ills; to most he mingles both.

  Homer

  Blessing, Men, Two

  Homer (1773). “The Iliad”, p.190

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• Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and... the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.

  Samuel Johnson

  Life, Use, Leisure

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1823). “The Works of Samuel Johnson: LL.D. A New Edition in Twelve Volumes. With an Essay on His Life and Genius, by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.118

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• It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of Truth shows much that we cannot, and all that we would not, see.

  Samuel Johnson

  Strong, Light, Torches

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.27

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• Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Motivational, Death

  Commencement Address at American University, Washington, D.C., 10 June 1963

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• The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

  John F. Kennedy

  Science, Technology, Men

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1961

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• The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Believe, Men, Two

  "The White House Years". Book by Henry Kissinger, 1979.

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• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

  C. S. Lewis

  God, Thinking, Demise

  C.S. Lewis (2012). “A Grief Observed”, p.33, Faber & Faber

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• Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

  Thomas Mann

  Wisdom, New Year, Time

  'The Magic Mountain' (1924) ch. 4, sect. 4 (translation by H. T. Lowe-Porter)

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• A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Home, Past, Novelists

  1964 Interview in Playboy, Jan.

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• To live in this world, you must be able to do three things: to love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; and, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go.

  Mary Oliver

  Love, Life, Relationship

  Mary Oliver (1992). “New and Selected Poems”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• And what do Democrats stand for, if they are so ready to defame concerned citizens as the 'mob' - a word betraying a Marie Antoinette delusion of superiority to ordinary mortals. I thought my party was populist, attentive to the needs and wishes of those outside the power structure. And as a product of the 1960s, I thought the Democratic party was passionately committed to freedom of thought and speech.

  Camille Paglia

  Party, Wish, Ordinary

  "Obama’s Healthcare Horror". Salon Column, www.salon.com. August 12, 2009.

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• A mortal lives not through that breath that flows in and that flows out. The source of his life is another and this causes the breath to flow.

  Paracelsus

  Demise, Flow, Causes

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• Never will the doctrine of spontaneous generation recover from the mortal blow struck by this simple experiment.

  Louis Pasteur

  Blow, Simple, Doctrine

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• A republic - if you can keep it - is about limitation, and for good reason, because we are mortal and our actions are imperfect.

  Mike Pence

  India, Republic, Our Actions

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

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• Never was it given to mortal man - To lie so boldly as we women can.

  Alexander Pope

  Lying, Men, Given

  Alexander Pope (1850*). “The works of Alexander Pope. With notes by dr. Warburton”, p.336

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• Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

  Pythagoras

  Demise, Reason, Immortal

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• No mortal man, moreover is wise at all moments.

  Pliny the Elder

  Wise, Men, Demise

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• Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.

  Anne Rice

  Mind, Trying, Demise

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• I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

  Robert Schumann

  Enemy, Elements, Orchestra

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.30, Ravenio Books

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• The poet sees better than other mortals. I do not see things as they are, but according to my own subjective impression, and this makes life easier and simpler.

  Robert Schumann

  Poet, Easier, Impression

  Robert Schumann (1907). “The Letters of Robert Schumann”

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• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  Ieyasu Tokugawa

  Imperfection, Despair, Rooms

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• I could feel his muscle tissues collapse under my force. It's ludicrous these mortals even attempt to enter my realm.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Fear, Boxing

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