“ When we go to our meeting with God, we should go like a patient to his doctor, first to be thoroughly examined and afterwards to be treated for our ailment. Then something will happen when you pray. ”
- Hallesby- Copy
- 459
“ We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. ”
- George Bernard Shaw- Copy
- 610
“ We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
- 3K
“ True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction, the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes. ”
- St. Therese of Lisieux- Copy
- 1.8K
“ To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. ”
- Francis Bowen- Copy
- 2.8K
“ To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair. ”
- Edgar Allan Poe- Copy
- 925
“ There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. ”
- William Hazlitt- Copy
- 1.5K
“ The thing always happens that you really believe in. And the belief in a thing makes it happen. And I think nothing will happen until you thoroughly and deeply believe in it. ”
- Frank Lloyd Wright- Copy
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“ The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. ”
- Friedrich Nietzsche- Copy
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“ The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
- 2.4K
“ She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. ”
- Thomas B. Macaulay- Copy
- 3.4K
“ Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. ”
- Thomas A. Edison- Copy
- 48
“ Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
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“ Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 3.3K
“ But the other choice was to do something radically different. ”
- Andrew Ross- Copy
- 3.6K
“ I do want to go another way - to write something completely different. ”
- Anne Rice- Copy
- 48
“ What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. ”
- Paul Hawken- Copy
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“ Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun. ”
- Nicolaus Copernicus- Copy
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“ To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy… is the true aim and end to life. ”
- Llewelyn Powers- Copy
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“ Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. ”
- Marcus Aurelius- Copy
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“ It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. ”
- Dag Hammarskjold- Copy
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“ No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
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“ You should study the Peerage, Gerald. It is the one book a young man about town should know thoroughly, and it is the best thing in fiction the English have ever done. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ”
- Oscar Wilde- Copy
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“ I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell… their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. ”
- W. Somerset Maugham- Copy
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“ There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. ”
- Francis Drake- Copy
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“ Once thoroughly understood, our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. ”
- John Ruskin- Copy
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“ Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. ”
- Thomas Edison- Copy
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“ Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ”
- Samuel Butler- Copy
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