Samuel Taylor Coleridge Quotes

Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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• The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.

  

  Ralph Nader
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• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. What's thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  

  Hamish Bowles
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• Goldfish are flowers ... flowers that move.

  

  Han Suyin
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• You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. " Good question. Morbid, isn't it?" "What?" "Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that?" "I'm not -" Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.

  

  Rachel Caine
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• So the CD is a great way to get yourself acquainted with some people who in three years, maybe even one year, be really big.

  

  B. J. Porter
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  • Great
  • Years

• All depend upon the engagement of as many people as possible on all levels, from civil society to national leaders, to advocate for the kind of national and international commitments, legislation, and public/ private partnerships that can make the difference.

  

  Queen Noor of Jordan
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• It’s a very interesting thing to try to be your absolute best—not a percent better or a percent worse than that.

  

  Kai Greene
  • Trying
  • Interesting
  • Percent

• You don't have to find out you're dying to start living. I want to be remembered as a kid who went down fighting, and didn't really lose.

  

  Zach Sobiech
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Fighting

• I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Eyes
  • Taken
  • Profound

• I'm not saying it's the city's fault. But I'm saying it's the city's fault that those two dogs are walking around the city attacking people. And I think that the city should do something about helping her to the best of their ability.

  

  Eddie Charles Jones
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  • City
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• The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Artist
  • Moment

• The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Real
  • History
  • Characters

• There are always a bunch of ideas floating around and I do the best that I can to try to not do them. The ideas don't go away and, over time, are finally like, "Okay, it's been around so long, I have to get this thing out," and it somehow ends up coming to some version of fruition.

  

  J. J. Abrams
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• We are in a strange kind of time, where the kind of liberation movements such as anti-apartheid movements and freedom struggles in India need to be reinvented. We need to retool them so that all the gains that our generation has made can be passed on to future generations.

  

  Vandana Shiva
  • Time
  • Future
  • Freedom

• It is a higher exhibition of Christian manliness to be able to bear trouble than to get rid of it.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Christian
  • Exhibition
  • Manliness

• Although Yitzhak Rabin was prevented from seeing his efforts bear fruit, he set in motion a process which, despite setbacks, continues today.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Today
  • Process
  • Efforts

• I grew up in Madras and did my schooling at St. Bedes and college at Loyola.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Up
  • College
  • Madras

• The door for discussions is still open. Only you can say whether it (possibilities of a grand alliance) is a closed chapter.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Door
  • Possibilities
  • Discussions

• Justice is justly represented blind, because she sees no difference in the parties concerned. She has but one scale and weight, for rich and poor, great and small.

  

  William Penn
  • Party
  • Justice
  • Rich

• I use a pick in my hair without force. You use a lawn mower-you got peat moss.

  

  Extra P
  • Force
  • Use

• Greatness and goodness are not means, but ends.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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