Quotes for November 1149 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 11: the anniversary does not move.

• A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man -the one he used to be.

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 62 reads

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• Action is coarsened thought; thought becomes concrete, obscure, and unconscious.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.4 · 40 votes · 140 reads

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• America does to me what I knew it would do: it just bumps me. The people charge at you like trucks coming down on you - no awareness. But one tries to dodge aside in time. Bump! bump! go the trucks. And that is human contact.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 57 reads

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• As soon as there is life there is danger.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 75 reads

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• Birds of a feather flock together.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  5.0 · 60 votes · 4 reads

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• By 2018, an estimated 63 percent of all new U.S. jobs will require workers with an education beyond high school. For our young people to get those jobs, they first need to graduate from high school ready to start a postsecondary education.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.7 · 48 votes · 151 reads

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• China and the United States have major influence in international affairs and shoulder important responsibilities in upholding world peace and promoting common development.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 89 reads

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• Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 93 reads

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• Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

  

  Charles Chaplin

  AuthorEnglish1889 · 19th century

  4.9 · 50 votes · 115 reads

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• He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 86 reads

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• How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 10 votes · 20 reads

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• I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.2 · 53 votes · 90 reads

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• I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 60 reads

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• I hear and I forget, I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.1 · 48 votes · 1 reads

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• I'm a geek.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 43 reads

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• In good films, there is always a directness that entirely frees us from the itch to interpret.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• It is prosperity that gives us friends, adversity that proves them.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.6 · 31 votes · 184 reads

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• Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 46 votes · 106 reads

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• Love is the river of life in the world.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 39 reads

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• My indifference to money and my spendthrift ways are disgraceful. You have no idea how reckless I am; how often I practically throw money out of the window. I am always making good resolutions, but the next minute I forget and give the waiter eightpence.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 103 reads

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• No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 152 reads

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• No man can be ideally successful until he has found his place. Like a locomotive he is strong on the track, but weak anywhere else.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 34 reads

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• Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of rousing one with a burning brand.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 185 reads

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• Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.3 · 22 votes · 101 reads

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• Others will follow your footsteps easier than they will your advice.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 41 votes · 12 reads

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• People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only rea

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 172 reads

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• Silence is the true friend that never betrays.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 36 votes · 104 reads

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• Society cannot share a common communication system so long as it is split into warring factions.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 115 reads

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• Spain is facing an economic situation of extreme difficulty, I repeat, of extreme difficulty, and anyone who doesn't understand that is fooling themselves.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 133 reads

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• Speak when you are spoken to.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.7 · 46 votes · 103 reads

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• The hard truth is that what may be acceptable in elite culture may not be acceptable in mass culture, that tastes which pose only innocent ethical issues as the property of a minority become corrupting when they become more established. Taste is context,

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 107 reads

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• The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 8 reads

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• The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 25 votes · 13 reads

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• The most learned are often the most narrow minded.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 89 reads

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• The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 40 reads

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• The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 51 reads

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• There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.3 · 63 votes · 51 reads

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• There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.4 · 53 votes · 146 reads

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• These two imparadised in one another's arms, the happier Eden, shall enjoy their fill of bliss on bliss.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 89 reads

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• To know someone here or there with whom you can feel there is understanding in spite of distances or thoughts expressed - That can make life a garden.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 103 reads

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• We had hundreds of thousands of people all dedicated to doing the perfect job, and I think they did about as well as anyone could ever have expected.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 155 reads

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• 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

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 152 reads

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• Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 44 reads

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• What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 118 reads

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• While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 174 reads

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• Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 7 votes · 13 reads

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• With the majority of people unbelief in one thing is founded on the blind belief in another.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 2 reads

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• Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 0 reads

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