Quotes of Thoroughly - somelinesforyou

“ There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. ”

- Bliss Carman

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. ”

- Francis Bowen

“ 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

“ 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

“ 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

“ The more abstract the truth you want to teach, the more thoroughly you must seduce the senses to accept it. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ 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

“ She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. ”

- Thomas B. Macaulay

“ 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

“ Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. ”

- Francis Bacon

“ 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

“ But the other choice was to do something radically different. ”

- Andrew Ross

“ I do want to go another way - to write something completely different. ”

- Anne Rice

“ What we are missing, utterly and completely, in this government is accountability. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ 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

“ To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy… is the true aim and end to life. ”

- Llewelyn Powers

“ Everything that happens happens as it should, and if you observe carefully, you will find this to be so. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

“ It is more noble to give yourself completely to one individual than to labor diligently for the salvation of the masses. ”

- Dag Hammarskjold

“ No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ 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

“ To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ 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

“ 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

“ Once thoroughly understood, our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. ”

- John Ruskin

“ Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure. ”

- Thomas Edison

“ Conscience is thoroughly well-bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it. ”

- Samuel Butler
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