William Greenough Thayer Shedd Quotes
A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
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We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.
Barack Obama
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I was a fan of One Direction when I was 16, but I was also a fan of Bring Me The Horizon and hardcore bands.
Halsey
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Leaders keep their eyes on the horizon, not just on the bottom line.
Warren Bennis
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There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.
Jack Nicklaus
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In any case, ideals are something we strive for; they are somewhere on the horizon of our efforts; they provide meaning and direction; they are not, however, static quotas that we either fulfill or do not.
Vaclav Havel
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Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
Alexander Haig
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Why do people move? What makes them uproot and leave everything they've known for a great unknown beyond the horizon? ... The answer is the same the world over: people move in the hope of a better life.
Yann Martel
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The whole purpose of working is to support your ideal lifestyle.
Brian Tracy
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It's not ideal to have three films coming out at once.
George Clooney
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.
Immanuel Kant
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The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.
Will Self
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No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
William Butler Yeats
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For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I have steadfastly refused to make concessions that would undermine my ideals.
Coco Chanel
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Where the sky begins, the horizon ends, despite the best intentions.
Tom Petty Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.
Sara Paretsky
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What folly takes light through ether to each eye from every horizon.
Scarlett Thomas
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Through the ample open door of the peaceful country barn, A sun-lit pasture field, with cattle and horses feeding; And haze, and vista, and the far horizon, fading away.
Walt Whitman
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I'd ban all automobiles from the central part of the city. You see, the automobile was just a passing fad. It's got to go. It's got to go a long way from here.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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The direction we are going in at this moment is the negation of material goods as being important and the great importance of spiritual values and sensations. Permissiveness, if you will. There is tremendous talk of sex and bi-sexuality.
Emilio Pucci
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I talked about the stuff so openly that people are able to connect and relate. I put everything out there [into the network], and if I'm having a bad time, people know about it.
Gabriel Iglesias
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I kind of didn't believe the doctors when they came over and they said you're not going to be able to walk again. I'm sorry to tell you this. I thought who is this guy? I just was so impatient with the whole thing. I knew I was going to walk again. I knew that I was going to do that.
Laurie Anderson
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No one blamed the victim. I worry about the walking wounded.
Erin Pizzey
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A man's ideal, like his horizon, is constantly receding from him as he advances toward it.
William Greenough Thayer Shedd