Quotes:Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust
upon them. With Major Major it had been all three. (Catch-22)
View quotes by Joseph HellerAnd even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop
upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
View quotes by AeschylusNo man is an Island, entire of it self; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of they friends or of thine own were; any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. (Devotions
Upon Emergent Occasions)
View quotes by John DonneTyndall, I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if I accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer
upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year. (On being offered the presidency of the Royal Society)
View quotes by Michael FaradayNeon strikes on England, noon on Oxford town,
Beauty she was statue cold - there's blood
upon her gown. (The Dying Patriot)
View quotes by James Elroy FleckerI have fed purely
upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep
upon ale. (The Beaux' Strategem)
View quotes by George FarquharTo every action there is always opposed an equal reaction: or, the mutual actions of two bodies
upon each other are always equal, and directed to contrary parts. (Principia Mathematica)
View quotes by Sir Isaac NewtonBut be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon them (Twelfth Night, Act 2 Scene 5)
View quotes by William ShakespeareTo-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour
upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
View quotes by William ShakespeareFirst witch: When shall we three meet again,
Second witch: In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.
Third witch: That will be ere the set of sun.
First witch: Where the place?
Second witch:
Upon the heath.
Third witch: There to meet with Macbeth.
First witch: I come, Greymalkin!
Second witch: Paddock calls.
Third witch: Anon!
All: Fair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
(Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1)
View quotes by William ShakespeareAdvice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells
upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
View quotes by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIf you haven't the strength to impose your own terms
upon life, you must accept the terms it offers you.
View quotes by T S EliotNo more tears now; I will think
upon revenge.
View quotes by Mary Queen Of ScotsAmbition often puts men
upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture with creeping.
View quotes by Jonathan SwiftIf I have seen further than others, it is by standing
upon the shoulders of giants.
View quotes by Sir Isaac NewtonOut flew the web and floated wide;
The mirror cracked fom side to side;
'The curse is come
upon me,' cried
The Lady of Shalott.
View quotes by Alfred Lord TennysonAll growth depends
upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.
View quotes by Calvin CoolidgeThe traditions of the dead generations weigh like a nightmare
upon the living.
View quotes by Karl Marx'Inconsistency is my very essence,' says the wheel.
Raise yourself
upon my spokes if you wish... but don't complain when you are plunged back down' - comparing life to a great wheel
View quotes by BoethiusAmong the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look
upon the act of depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest. ('Gandhi, An Autobiography')
View quotes by Mahatma Gandhi"Dwell
upon the brightest parts in every prospect... and strive to be pleased with the present circumstances."
View quotes by Abraham TuckerHistory is fables agreed
upon.
View quotes by Voltaire'Make America what we want it to be — a literate country and a hopefuller country.' —Washington, D.C., Jan. 11, 2001
'Natural gas is hemispheric. I like to call it hemispheric in nature because it is a product that we can find in our neighborhoods.'
Austin, Texas, Dec. 20, 2000
'I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.'
Describing a phone call to Sen. John Breaux. Crawford, Texas, Dec. 2, 2000
'The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.'
Austin, Texas, Nov. 22, 2000
'They misunderestimated me.'
Bentonville, Ark., Nov. 6, 2000
'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.'
St. Charles, Mo., Nov. 2, 2000
'The only things that I can tell you is that every case I have reviewed I have been comfortable with the innocence or guilt of the person that I've looked at. I do not believe we've put a guilty... I mean innocent person to death in the state of Texas.'
-All Things Considered, NPR, June 16, 2000
BUSH: 'First of all, Cinco de Mayo is not the independence day. That's dieciseis de Septiembre, and ...'
MATTHEWS: 'What's that in English?' BUSH: 'Fifteenth of September.' (Dieciseis de Septiembre = Sept. 16)
-Hardball, MSNBC, May 31, 2000
'It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.'
-Reuters, May 5, 2000
'Will the highways on the Internet become more few?'
-Concord, N.H., Jan. 29, 2000
'This is Preservation Month. I appreciate preservation. It's what you do when you run for president. You gotta preserve.'
-Speaking during 'PERSEVERENCE Month' at Fairgrounds Elementary School in Nashua, N.H. As quoted in the Los Angeles Times, Jan. 28, 2000
'What I am against is quotas. I am against hard quotas, quotas they basically delineate based upon whatever. However they delineate, quotas, I think vulcanize society. So I don't know how that fits into what everybody
else is saying, their relative positions, but that's my position.'
-The San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 21, 2000
'Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?'
-Florence, S.C., Jan. 11, 2000
'Gov. Bush will not stand for the subsidation of failure.'
-ibid
'I think anybody who doesn't think I'm smart enough to handle the job is underestimating.'
-U.S. News & World Report, April 3, 2000
View quotes by George W Bush
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
View quotes by Benjamin Disraeli
Why not master? upon letting off wind whilst commentating live
View quotes by Ron Atkinson
The most successful men in the end are those whose success is the result of steady accretion... It is the man who carefully advances step by step, with his mind becoming wider and wider - and progressively better able to grasp any theme or situation - persevering in what he knows to be practical, and concentrating his thought upon it, who is bound to succeed in the greatest degree.
View quotes by Alexander Graham Bell
Let us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherized upon a table (The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock)
View quotes by T S Elliot
Ground not upon dreams; you know they are ever contrary.
View quotes by Thomas Middleton
It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger. (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
View quotes by David Hume
Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them (A Treatise Upon Human Nature)
View quotes by David Hume
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