“ We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
- 2K
“ I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. ”
- J. R. R. Tolkien- Copy
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“ Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. ”
- Nellie McClung- Copy
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“ Anyone who has to be led into temptation doesn't deserve to enjoy it. ”
- Evan Esar- Copy
- 2.7K
“ It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong. Ralph Nichols - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. ”
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow- Copy
- 2K
“ The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 3.5K
“ I'm not going to make those predictions anymore. I'm 27 now and I've learned from my mistakes. ”
- Marion Jones- Copy
- 251
“ If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits. ”
- Ruth Benedict- Copy
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“ The end may justify the means as long as there is something that justifies the end. ”
- Leon Trotsky- Copy
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“ Things and events explain themselves, and the business of thought is to brush aside the verbal and conceptual impediments which prevent them from doing so. Start with the notion that it is you who explain the Object, and not the Object that explains itself, and you are bound to end in explaining it away… ”
- L. P. Jacks- Copy
- 840
“ If you really want to make a difference, whether it's in helping other people, or whether it's in fighting for your country, or whether it's in the political arena, or journalism, or physics, you've got to persevere. You've got to understand that there are going to be some enormous bumps in the road… ”
- George H. W. Bush- Copy
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“ Men are rewarded or punished not for what they do but for how their acts are defined. That is why men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves. ”
- Thomas S. Szasz- Copy
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“ Journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarist. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence…on pain of liquidation. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
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“ A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. ”
- Robert Chapman- Copy
- 3K
“ And malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man. ”
- A. E. Housman- Copy
- 100
“ The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end. ”
- Saint Jerome- Copy
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“ The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. ”
- Georges Bernanos- Copy
- 2.3K
“ Disgust with dirt can be so great that it prevents us from cleaning ourselves - from "justifying" ourselves. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
- 4K
“ The brute necessity of believing something so long as life lasts does not justify any belief in particular. ”
- George Santayana- Copy
- 2K
“ All that you are, all that I owe to you, justifies my love, and nothing, not even you. ”
- Marquis de Lafayette- Copy
- 2.7K
“ In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. ”
- Alvin Kernan- Copy
- 2K
“ Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and speech only to conceal their thoughts. ”
- Francois Marie Arouet de Voltaire- Copy
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