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  • I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars. -- E. M. Forster
  • Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone. -- Maya Angelou
  • I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards. -- Yani Tseng
  • It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view. -- George Eliot
  • The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. -- Karl Marx
  • I'm not one who divides music, dance or art into various categories. Either something works, or it doesn't. -- Twyla Tharp
  • I have been through various fitness regimes. I used to run about five miles a day and I did aerobics for a while. -- Sting
  • I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story. -- Edith Wharton
  • It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality -- Amartya Sen
  • The various religions are like different roads converging on the same point. What difference does it make if we follow different routes, provided we arrive at the same destination? -- Mahatma Gandhi
  • The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart. -- Dalai Lama
  • My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated. -- Edward Said
  • There are various sorts of curiosity; one is from interest, which makes us desire to know that which may be useful to us; and the other, from pride which comes from the wish to know what others are ignorant of. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Some men know that a light touch of the tongue, running from a woman's toes to her ears, lingering in the softest way possible in various places in between, given often enough and sincerely enough, would add immeasurably to world peace. -- Marianne Williamson
  • I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you. -- Henry Rollins
  • Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more -- Pope Francis
  • Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature. -- Thomas Sowell
  • A soulmate is an ongoing connection with another individual that the soul picks up again in various times and places over lifetimes. We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual, we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves. -- Edgar Cayce
  • Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies. -- Rebecca Solnit
  • The mind turned inwards is the Self; turned outwards, it becomes the ego and all the world. Cotton made into various clothes we call by various names. Gold made into various ornaments, we call by various names. But all the clothes are cotton and all the ornaments gold. The one is real, the many are mere names and forms. -- Ramana Maharshi
  • Any active sportsman has to be very focused; you've got to be in the right frame of mind. If your energy is diverted in various directions, you do not achieve the results. I need to know when to switch on and switch off: and the rest of the things happen around that. Cricket is in the foreground, the rest is in the background. -- Sachin Tendulkar
  • Various Horsemen are abroad, doing their various Apocalyptic things. -- George Alec Effinger
  • Various visionaries through time came to see with some degree of clarity that Oneness, that intrinsic connection between Self and experienced Reality. -- Thomas Daniel Nehrer
  • Various are the uses of friends, beyond all else in difficulty, but joy also looks for trust that is clear in the eyes. -- Pindar
  • And I kissed away a thousand tears My lady of the Various Sorrows Some begged, some borrowed, some stolen Some kept safe for tomorrow. -- Nick Cave
  • Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God. -- George Whitefield
  • When a great genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."[Thoughts on Various Subjects] -- Jonathan Swift
  • Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas. -- Park Geun-hye
  • People's personalities, like buildings, have various facades, some pleasant to view, some not. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • You think that your life is going to be one way, and then, for various reasons or whatever, it doesn't work out. -- Scarlett Johansson
  • Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. -- R. L. Stine
  • Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others. -- Warren Bennis
  • There are various eyes. Even the Sphinx has eyes: and as a result there are various truths, and as a result there is no truth. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Retire at various times into the solitude of your own heart, even while outwardly engaged in discussions or transactions with others, and talk to God. -- Saint Francis de Sales
  • As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God. -- Swami Vivekananda
  • We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. -- Junipero Serra
  • As I, as a worker, came to know them, the aims of German trade unions were political, and there were a number of various trade unions with varied political views. -- Fritz Sauckel
  • When you go to a great concert, you feel this arc, almost like the music of a well-chosen set takes you on this trip through emotions and through various forms of intellectual engagement. -- John Green
  • The mental health conversation is very important to me. I have friends that struggle with various mental illnesses. I've struggled with depression and anxiety. I'm very interested in how we deal with that. -- Matthew Quick
  • There is one simple Divinity found in all things, one fecund Nature, preserving mother of the universe insofar as she diversely communicates herself, casts her light into diverse subjects, and assumes various names. -- Giordano Bruno
  • Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart. -- Saint Augustine
  • I think every age has a medium that talks to it more eloquently than the others. In the 19th century it was symphonic music and the novel. For various technical and artistic reasons, film became that eloquent medium for the 20th century. -- Walter Murch
  • War contributes greatly to global warming, which shouldn't surprise us. All those bombs going off, all those rockets, all those planes and helicopters. All that fuel of various kinds being used. It pollutes the air and water of this very fragile and interconnected planet. -- Alice Walker
  • Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree. -- Johann Arndt
  • The institutions of college athletics exist primarily as unreality fueled by deceit. The unreality is that universities should be in the business of providing large spectacles of mass entertainment. The fundamental absurdity of that notion requires the promulgation of the various deceits necessary to carry it out. -- Charlie Pierce
  • It is in the admission of ignorance and the admission of uncertainty that there is a hope for the continuous motion of human beings in some direction that doesn't get confined, permanently blocked, as it has so many times before in various periods in the history of man. -- Richard P. Feynman
  • I have for some time now been deeply troubled by the growing difficulties faced by Christian communities in various parts of the Middle East. It seems to me that we cannot ignore the fact that Christians in the Middle East are increasingly being deliberately targeted by fundamentalist Islamist militants. -- Prince Charles
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  • The right to a quality education is, I believe, the perfect path to bridge the gap between different cultures and to reconcile various civilizations. Without such a right, the values of liberty, justice and equality will have no meaning. Ignorance is by far the biggest danger and threat to humankind. -- Mozah bint Nasser Al Missned
  • I was raised in New York City and raised in the New York City theater world. My father was a theater director and an acting teacher, and it was not uncommon for me to have long discussions about the method and what the various different processes were to finding a character and exploring character and realizing that character. -- Vin Diesel
  • What I call my 'self' now is hardly a person at all. It's mainly a meeting place for various natural forces, desires, and fears, etcetera, some of which come from my ancestors, and some from my education, some perhaps from devils. The self you were really intended to be is something that lives not from nature but from God. -- C. S. Lewis
  • Playing nuts is a game like any other, neither better than tops, nor worse than cards. The game is played in various ways. There are 'holes' and 'bank' and 'caps.' But every game finishes up in the same way. One boy loses, another wins. And, as always, he who wins is a clever fellow, a smart fellow, a good fellow. -- Sholom Aleichem
  • I've always explored various areas of society. -- Johnny Cash
  • In planning an attack, persons have various roles. -- Robert Mueller
  • Desiring things widely different for their various tastes. -- Horace
  • Human rights is the fruit of various civilizations. -- Shirin Ebadi
  • Love is a pleasing but a various clime. -- William Shenstone
  • I've been asked to do various types of cruises. -- John Oates
  • Such and so various are the tastes of men. -- Mark Akenside
  • The Archer novels are about various kinds of brokenness. -- Ross MacDonald
  • A hospital is a good place to set various dilemmas. -- Aminatta Forna
  • I'm trying to learn from various corners of the world. -- Yuri Milner
  • The opposing missions of the various characters create the plot. -- James N. Frey
  • This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements." -- Walther Bothe
  • This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements. -- Walther Bothe
  • After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone. -- Francesca Annis
  • People who know various movie versions don't really know the story. -- David Morrell
  • I'm the empty stage where various actors act out various plays. -- Fernando Pessoa
  • We arrive at the various stages of life quite as novices. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
  • Our party may have swung too far right at various times. -- Ed Gillespie
  • Rich and various gems inlay The unadorned bosom of the deep. -- John Milton
  • All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer. -- Samuel Beckett
  • The various forms of despair at the various stations on the road. -- Franz Kafka
  • To discover the various use of things is the work of history. -- Karl Marx
  • People are fed up with the various camps, they want to unite. -- Naftali Bennett
  • There are various kinds of savagery: emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural savagery. -- Don Winslow
  • People in Japan have experienced many tsunamis and various earthquakes throughout the ages. -- Hayao Miyazaki
  • Each one of us interprets various stimuli according to our own personal sensibility. -- Stefano Gabbana
  • We are doomed to failure without a daily destruction of our various preconceptions. -- Taiichi Ohno
  • Mysticism is an eclectic mixture of various forms of self-discovery that's primarily experimental. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
  • With various readings stored his empty skull, Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull. -- Charles Churchill
  • A person believes various things at various times, even on the same day. -- John Updike
  • Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known. -- Desiderius Erasmus
  • I am working with various music producers and hope to be releasing music. -- Olivia Stuck
  • Genres are just bottles for the various boats. The boats matter to me. -- Julianna Baggott
  • I say sorry to my wife about five times a day for various reasons. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty. -- Herman Melville
  • Feelings are determined by how one chooses to respond to various situations and events. -- Ralph Marston
  • There is no love; There are only the various envies, all of them sad. -- W. H. Auden
  • We have, unlike many of our competitors, continued to meet our various financial obligations. -- Gerard Arpey
  • I am happy to donate funds to various organizations that help people in need. -- Carl Karcher
  • The transfer of [...] capabilities from various professional classes to the general public is epochal. -- Clay Shirky
  • ..various people had long had the feeling that gain through pain was nature's way -- Robert Wright
  • All of my heroes, like Dali, are people who pioneered various forms of cinema. -- Marilyn Manson
  • Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing. -- Voltaire
  • Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better. -- William P. Leahy
  • Nonetheless, much has been learned by studying the statistical differences between the various human races. -- J. Philippe Rushton
  • I always remember my childhood as traumatic, for various reasons; I always felt alienated, outside. -- Kate Zambreno
  • There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences. -- Jürgen Moltmann
  • Every nation has to follow a certain policy: Commercial, trade, various other types of policies. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • The Patriot Act addresses various subjects. Some sections are beneficial and enhance our national security. -- Mike Honda
  • South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa. -- Susan Rice
  • If God objected to [people with various handicaps], he ought not have created such people. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
  • My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing. -- Brian Eno
  • Your "look-alike" may be the result of one of the various possible futures happening simultaneously! -- Vishwanath S J
  • In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love. -- Five for Fighting
  • He touch'd the tender stops of various quills, With eager thought warbling his Doric lay. -- John Milton
  • A detective sees death in all the various forms at least five times a week. -- Ed McBain
  • Torture is illegal. Torture is banned by various provisions of the law. I support that. -- Mike Pence
  • There's the basket of deplorables, who are bigots of various stripes, misogynists, anti-Muslim, racists, homophobes. -- George Packer
  • There are no perfect life plan formulas. It's a roller coaster with various exit ramps. -- Jason Landry
  • [Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons -- Albert Bandura
  • All wars would end immediately if the various chiefs of state dropped a little LSD. -- David Crosby
  • There are various wounds to describe our hurts;the deepest one is the most painful. -- Munia Khan
  • Nixon's attempts to order subversion of various departments was bound to come out in some form. -- Bob Woodward
  • People are too various to be treated so lightly. I am too various to be trusted. -- James A. Baldwin
  • Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality. -- Avtarjeet Singh Dhanjal
  • Necessity has a way of obliterating from our conduct various delicate scruples regarding honor and pride. -- William Faulkner
  • Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated. -- Albert Einstein
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