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«Anyone who has a continuous smile on his face conceals a toughness that is almost frightening.»
Author: Greta Garbo
(Actress)
| About:
Smile
| Keywords:
conceals, continuous, frightening, toughness
«Continuous, unflagging effort, persistence and determination will win. Let not the man be discouraged who has these.»
Author: James Whitcomb Riley
| Keywords:
continuous, determination, discouraged, discouraging, persistence, unflagging
«For good and evil, man is a free creative spirit. This produces the very queer world we live in, a world in continuous creation and therefore continuous change and insecurity.»
Author: Joyce Cary
(Writer)
| About:
Creativity,
Evil,
Freedom,
Goodness,
Mankind,
Spirit
| Keywords:
continuous, insecurity, queer
«A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death»
Author: Robert Maynard Hutchins
(Educator)
| About:
Civilization,
Controversy,
Death and dying
| Keywords:
continuous, controversy, issues, on the way, totalitarianism
«Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| About:
Compassion
| Keywords:
continuous, proceeding, proceedings, traffic
«Genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity; a state of continuous prosperity may easily prove a quick sand to virtue»
Author: Friedrich von Schiller
(Dramatist, Historian, Philosopher, Poet)
| About:
Adversity,
Morality,
Prosperity,
Virtue
| Keywords:
continuous, preserved, School of, The school
«Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Intelligence,
Potential
| Keywords:
continuous, effort, intelligence, key, keyed, potential, potentials, strength, unlock, unlocked, unlocking, unlocks
«Genius is only the power of making continuous efforts. The line between failure and success is so fine that we scarcely know when we pass it: so fine that we are often on the line and do not know it. How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time w»
Author: Elbert Hubbard
| About:
Genius
| Keywords:
at a time, continuous, efforts, On the Line, scarcely, thrown
«He is a man of thirty-five, but looks fifty. He is bald, has varicose veins and wears spectacles, or would wear them if his only pair were not chronically lost. If things are normal with him, he will be suffering from malnutrition, but if he has recently had a lucky streak, he will be suffering from a hangover. At present it is half past eleven in the morning, and according to his schedule he should have started work two hours ago; but even if he had made any serious effort to start he would have been frustrated by the almost continuous ringing of the telephone bell, the yells of the baby, the rattle of an electric drill out in the street, and the heavy boots of his creditors clumping up the stairs. The most recent interruption was the arrival of the second post, which brought him two circulars and an income tax demand printed in red. Needless to say this person is a writer.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
An electric, arrivals, at present, bald, bell, boots, chronically, circular, continuous, creditor, creditors, drill, drilling, electric, electric drill, eleven, frustrated, hangover, hangovers, income tax, interruption, interruptions, in red, losing streak, malnutrition, most recent, needless, pair, post, printed, rattle, recent, recently, ringing, schedule, spectacles, stairs, streak, streaked, streaks, telephone, telephone bell, The Arrival, thirty-five, Thirty two, up the stairs, varicose, veins
«Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
backs, bent, continuous, inevitability, in on, ride, roll, straighten, straightened, straightening, straightens, straighten out, straighten up, wheels
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