Famous Quotes and Proverbs
If you are looking for famous quotes and proverbs, you've come to the right place! Browse our largest database, which contains over 150,000 quotations, proverbs and sayings by the most renowned poets, artists, authors, inventors and researchers both living and deceased. Use our famous quotes and proverbs to support the content of your essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation. Be inspired by our quotes, proverbs and sayings now!
Search our collection by author, topic or keyword. It's completely FREE!
Browse Keywords:
A
B
C
D
E
F
G
H
I
J
K
L
M
N
O
P
Q
R
S
T
U
V
W
X
Y
Z
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
(Click a letter to view the keywords)
Letter "C" » contradictory
«The 'morality of compromise' sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men don't compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised.»
Author: Andrew Carnegie
(Industrialist, Philanthropist)
| About:
Compromise,
Weakness
| Keywords:
admission, admissions, compromise, compromised, contradictories, contradictory, sounds
«The real community of man, in the midst of all the self-contradictory simulacra of community, is the community of those who seek the truth»
«To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.»
Author: Emma Goldman
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, hash, hashed, indefinite, methods, movement, radical, The American, uncertain
«The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| About:
Soul
| Keywords:
conflicting opinions, contradictory, hospitable, impartiality, sentiments
«The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
centuries, contradictory, debts, necessities, oscillated, oscillates, oscillating, payment, serenely, social order, unaware
«These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
account, account of the creation, chapters, contain, containing, continuous, contradictories, contradictory, Genesis, Moses, stories, The Creation
«To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together . . . humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.»
Author: William Wordsworth
(Poet)
| Keywords:
contradictories, contradictory, dependence, go together, manly, reliance
Research our database of free Biographies. Sign-up for the database of college sample papers for only $14.95/month. Buy a custom written essay, term paper, research paper or dissertation on any topic and get a discount!
