Quotations
Quotes:
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
View quotes by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life.
View quotes by Christiaan Barnard
Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress.
View quotes by John Clapham
I thank you in advance for the great round of applause I'm about to get. [Not very confident, then!]
View quotes by Bo Diddley
As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.
View quotes by Henry Ford
The object of most prayers is to wangle an advance on good intentions.
View quotes by Robert Brault
A riot is a spontaneous outburst. A war is subject to advance planning.
View quotes by Richard Nixon
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
View quotes by John Dewey
The very best financial presentation is one that's well thought out and anticipates any questions... answering them in advance.
View quotes by Sir Arthur Helps
The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting.
View quotes by Henry James
Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance,
And toss them on the wheels of Chance.
View quotes by Juvenal
Troubles advance upon us rapidly; our desires travel in the opposite direction
View quotes by Alfred Mercier
Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.
View quotes by Thomas Huxley
Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.
View quotes by Douglas Macarthur
All my children have spoken for themselves since they first learned to speak, and not always with my advance approval, and I expect that to continue in the future.
View quotes by Gerald Ford
The moon and other celestial bodies should be free for exploration and use by all countries. No country should be permitted to advance a claim of sovereignty.
View quotes by Lyndon Johnson
She was a buxom grandmother noted for her detective stories, who gazed mournfully at the camera as if deploring either the bloodiness of her craft or the size of her advance.
View quotes by P D James
I knew well in advance, even before I stepped on the stage for my first event, that I was going to lose [on losing to American Carly Patterson for gold, and then accusing judges of bias]
View quotes by Svetlana Khorkina
We have vitally important Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and English Local Authority elections next year and we must resolve this matter well in advance of these. [to Blair when resigning]
View quotes by David Wright
If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance.
View quotes by Orville Wright
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