Author Index: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Apollonius of Tyana Quote: 'It is the duty of the ...'

Related Quotes

If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.
Ezra Pound
Tags: Truth Out Being
When one person makes an accusation, check to be sure he himself is not the guilty one. Sometimes it is those whose case is weak who make the most clamour.
Piers Anthony
Tags: Who Make He
A Religion of Evolution: that, when all is said and done, is what Man needs ever more explicitly if he is to survive and 'superlive,' as soon as he becomes conscious of his power to ultra-hominize himself and of his duty to do so.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
dolomites mountains italy alpine
I deliver my Truth hot and hard.


Stephen Colbert
Tags: Truth Hard Hot
clouds cumulus sky nature dramatic
I have never said anything critical about Ozzy that he didn't say about himself many times.


Eddie Trunk
Tags: About Never He
coast lighthouse sea ocean tower
By reason of weird translation, many such sets of instructions read like poems anyhow.


Brian Ferneyhough
Tags: Like Many Read
It's an important social duty to spread the word of English to people whose livelihoods depend on knowing the language.
Billy Collins
I think it's an actor's responsibility to change every time. Not only for himself and the people he's working with, but for the audience. If you just go out and deliver the same dish every time... it's meat loaf again... you'd get bored. I'd get bored.
Johnny Depp
Tags: Time Change You
He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.
Anna C. Brackett
Tags: Great Who World
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty.
Robert Darnton
Tags: Technology Up Our
As one may bring himself to believe almost anything he is inclined to believe, it makes all the difference whether we begin or end with the inquiry, 'What is truth?'
Richard Whately
Tags: Truth He Anything
There was very little suicide among the men of the North, because every man considered it his duty to get killed, not to kill himself; and to kill himself would have seemed cowardly, as implying fear of being killed by others.
Lafcadio Hearn
Tags: Men Fear Because
Defending the truth is not something one does out of a sense of duty or to allay guilt complexes, but is a reward in itself.
Simone de Beauvoir
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Tags: Good He Many
I ask every man and woman occupying a place of responsibility whose duty it is to teach the gospel of Jesus Christ to live it and keep the commandments of God, so that their example will teach it.
Heber J. Grant
Tags: God Will Every
A Swedish physicist can not discuss his work with fifty people unless he goes abroad. A Swedish economist can get opinions and instructions in his native language from thousands upon thousands of his fellow citizens.
George Stigler
Tags: Work People Get
tofane dolomites nature
He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.


J. F. Powers
Tags: He Found Himself
bridge wooden creek trees scenic
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.


Ayn Rand
Tags: God Power Being
cyprus coast cliff cavo greko
Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.


Jose Marti
Tags: He Man Must
beach traces sand footprints
I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.


Dita Von Teese