Short quotations about, through - Page 4

Anne-Sophie Swetchine

We are rich only through what we gi…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse. Great short quote and quotation by: Anne-Sophie Swetchine ,

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Alan Chadwick

We are the living links in a life f…

15 Feb , 2011  

We are the living links in a life force that moves and plays around and through us, binding the deepest soils with the farthest stars. Great short quote and quotation by: Alan Chadwick ,

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We delight in the beauty of the but…

15 Feb , 2011  

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Great short quote and quotation by: Maya Angelou , US author & poet (1928 – )

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John Claypool

We do not first get all the answers…

15 Feb , 2011  

We do not first get all the answers and then live in the light of our understanding. We must rather plunge into life meeting what we have to meet and experiencing what we have to experience and in the light of living try to understand. if insight comes at all, it will not before, but […]

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Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"

We have come through a strange cycl…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, […]

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John Adams

We have no government armed with po…

15 Feb , 2011  

We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any […]

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Ludwig van Beethoven

We mortals with immortal minds are …

15 Feb , 2011  

We mortals with immortal minds are only born for sufferings and joys, and one could almost say that the most excellent receive joy through sufferings. Great short quote and quotation by: Ludwig van Beethoven , German Romantic composer (1770 – 1827)

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Martin Luther King, Jr.

We must come to see that peace is n…

15 Feb , 2011  

We must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal we seek, but it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. Great short quote and quotation by: Martin Luther King, Jr. ,

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We think very little of time presen…

15 Feb , 2011  

We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that […]

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What is all wisdom save a collectio…

15 Feb , 2011  

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes. Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings– they are so trite, so threadbare. None the less they embody the concentrated experience of the race, and the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot be far wrong. Has any man ever attained to inner […]

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William Wordsworth

What though the radiance which was …

15 Feb , 2011  

What though the radiance which was once so bright Be not forever taken from my sight, Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendour in the grass, of glory in the flower;Grief not, rather find, Strength in what remains behind, In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be, In the soothing thoughts […]

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Leonid Brezhnev

Whatever else may divide us, Europe…

15 Feb , 2011  

Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today. Great short quote and quotation by: Leonid Brezhnev ,

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