Multitudes Quotes
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Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.
William Morley Punshon -
In a well governed state, there are few punishments, not because there are many pardons, but because criminals are rare; it is when a state is in decay that the multitude of crimes is a gaurantee of impunity.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Maybe solitude is best had in the midst of multitudes.
William Goyen -
I am large, I contain multitudes.
Walt Whitman -
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
William Allen White -
Hark to that shrill, sudden shout, The cry of an applauding multitude, Swayed by some loud-voiced orator who wields The living mass as if he were its soul!
William Cullen Bryant -
The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach.
William Shakespeare -
It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.
Bill Willingham
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I developed a term that is used in the game right now called sacking a quarterback. Sacking a quarterback is just like you devastate a city or you cream a multitude of people. I mean it’s just like you put all the offensive players in one bag and I just take a baseball bat and beat on the bag.
Deacon Jones -
There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.
George Dennison Prentice -
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
Richard Owen -
Many ingenious lovely things are gone / That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude.
William Butler Yeats -
In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude.
George Washington -
I call my putter 'Sweet Charity' because it covers such a multitude of sins from tee to green.
Gardner Dickinson
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My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
Steve Prefontaine -
People attain worth and dignity by the multitude of decisions they make from day to day.
Rollo May -
Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.
Catherine Doherty -
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
Saul Bellow -
Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.
Carolyn Wells