94.Quotes On Victory:Democracy:Fate:Quality:Value:Family:Progress-Part 4
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"The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.." -Oscar Wilde-
"For by superior energies;more strict affiance in each other;faith more firm in their unhallowed principles, the bad have fairly earned a victory over the weak, the vacillating, inconsistent good.".-William Wordsworth-
"An intelligent plan is the first step to success. The man who plans knows where he is going, knows what progress he is making and has a pretty good idea when he will arrive.".-Basil S. Walsh-
"The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.".-Don Marquis
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"Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring, through obeying the blind urge.".-Henry Miller-
"Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.".-Nadine Gordimer-
"Progress is the stride of God.".-Victor Hugo-
"Democracy is the name we give the people whenever we need them.".-Arman de Caillavet-
"I guess I think that films have to be made totally by fascists - there's no room for democracy in making film.".-Don Alan Pennebaker-
More Quotes on Victory
"The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.".-Henry Louis Mencken-
"In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!".-Orson Welles-
"I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.".-Woodrow T. Wilson-
"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.".-Amy Tan-
"We make our fortunes and we call them fate.".-Benjamin Disraeli-
"Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.".-Franklin D. Roosevelt-
More Quotes on Victory
"Just because Fate doesn’t deal you the right cards, it doesn’t mean you should give up. It just means you have to play the cards you get to their maximum potential.".-Les Brown-
"I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.".-Vincent Van Gogh-
"Liberation is an ever shifting horizon, a total ideology that can never fulfill its promises. It has the therapeutic quality of providing emotionally charged rituals of solidarity in hatred - it is the amphetamine of its believers.".-Arianna Stassinopoulos-
"No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.".-Cyril Connolly-
"Taste is the fundamental quality which sums up all the other qualities. It is the nec plus ultra of the intelligence. Through this alone is genius the supreme health and balance of all the faculties.".-Isidore Ducasse Comte De Lautreamont-
"On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners.".-Oscar Wilde-
"Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradles. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.".-Virginia Woolf-
"We need a sense of the value of time - that is, of the best way to divide one's time into one's various activities.".-Arnold Bennett-
"There is no need to worry about mere size. We do not necessarily respect a fat man more than a thin man. Sir Isaac Newton was very much smaller than a hippopotamus, but we do not on that account value him less.".-Bertrand Russell-
"The height of ability consists in a thorough knowledge of the real value of things, and of the genius of the age in which we live.".-Francois de la Rochefoucauld-
"Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live;but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.".-Luigi Pirandello-
"The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.".-Thomas Hardy-
"American universities are organized on the principle of the nuclear rather than the extended family. Graduate students are grimly trained to be technicians rather than connoisseurs. The old German style of universal scholarship has gone.".-Camille Paglia-
"If you have this enormous talent, it's got you by the balls, it's a demon. You can't be a family man and a husband and a caring person and be that animal. Dickens wasn't that nice a guy.".-Dustin Hoffman-
"We falsely attribute to men a determined character - putting together all their yesterdays - and averaging them - we presume we know them. Pity the man who has character to support - it is worse than a large family - he is the silent poor indeed.".-Henry David Thoreau-
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