Comes Quotes - page 11

It is clear that every civilization undergoes a process of historical change. We can see that a civilization comes into existence, passes through a long experience, and eventually goes out of existence. (Carroll Quigley)
Asks the Possible of the Impossible, Where is your dwelling-place In the dreams of the Impotent, comes the answer. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Truth comes as conqueror only to those who have lost the art of receiving it as friend. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
Progress is personal; it comes from individuals demanding more of themselves and everyone else. View quote
Richard Koch
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. View quote
Leonardo da Vinci
When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts. View quote
Michael Ende
True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united. View quote
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Knowledge comes only to those who despise happiness. View quote
Georg Trakl
And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last. View quote
Walter Scott
When Jesus comes back, these crazy, greedy, capitalistic men are gonna kill him again. View quote
Mike Tyson
No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. (Nelson Mandela)
You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular but one must take it because it's right. View quote
Martin Luther King Jr.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. View quote
Aldous Huxley
The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen. View quote
Aldous Huxley
Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door. View quote
Benjamin Jowett
There comes not seldom a crisis in the life of men, of nations, and of worlds, when the old forms seem ready to decay, and the old rules of action have lost their binding force. The evils of existing systems obscure the blessings that attend them, and, where reform is needed, the cry is raised for subversion. View quote
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Indeed, what is there that does not appear marvelous when it comes to our knowledge for the first time? How many things, too, are looked upon as quite impossible until they have actually been effected? View quote
Pliny the Elder
To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot. View quote
Joseph Conrad
My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good. View quote
Giacomo Casanova
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give. (Eleanor Roosevelt)
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. View quote
Aristotle
The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible. View quote
Nikola Tesla
Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young. View quote
Sigmund Freud
There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there. View quote
Albert Einstein