Various Quotes

Various Quotes & Sayings

These various quotes and various sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection. Ah, love, let us be true To one another! for the world, which seems To lie before us like a land of dreams, So various, so beautiful, so new, Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light, Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain. - Matthew Arnold


In my day the library was a wonderful place. We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs, it was a sanctuary. So I tend to think the library should remain a centre of knowledge. - Norman Mailer


And rank for her meant duty, various, Yet equal in its worth, done worthily. Command was service; humblest service done By willing and discerning souls was glory. - George Eliot


You can get far in North America with laconic grunts. 'Huh,' 'hun,' and 'hi!' in their various modulations, together with 'sure,' 'guess so,' 'that so?' and 'nuts!' will meet almost any contingency. - Ian L. Fleming


Never, think we have a due knowledge of ourselves till we have been exposed to various kinds of temptations, and tried on every side. Integrity on one side of our character is no voucher for integrity on another. We cannot tell how we should act if brought under temptations different from those we have hitherto experienced. - Cardinal John Henry Newman


In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies. - Alexander Pope


The philosophers have only interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it. - Karl Marx


Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call fourth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake. Our fires are damped, our drafts are checked. We are making use of only a small part of our possible mental and physical resources. Stating the thing broadly, the human individual thus lives fare within his limits he possesses powers of various sorts he habitually fails to use. - William James


Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. - Saint Augustine of Hippo