Such Quotes

"Our houses are such unwieldy property that we are often imprisoned rather than housed in them."
-Henry David Thoreau

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed, and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police."
-Albert Einstein

"Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
-Albert Einstein

"Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."
-Albert Einstein

"The individual must not merely wait and criticize, he must defend the cause the best he can. The fate of the world will be such as the world deserves."
-Albert Einstein

"The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."
-Albert Einstein

"Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?"
-Albert Einstein

"And did you think that such a guest Would in thy hall take up his rest? --High gifts ask diviner guess: Not to be conned to tediousness."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is no den in the wide world to hide a rogue. Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass. Commit a crime, and it seems as if a coat of snow fell on the ground, such as reveals in the woods the track of every partridge, and fox, and squirrel."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed."
-Abraham Lincoln

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
-Mark Twain

"There is no such thing as a lover's oath."
-Plato

"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."
-Plato

"..nor did he pause to reflect that hereditary aristocracies have always been short lived where as adoptive organizations such as the Catholic Church sometimes lasted for hundreds or thousands of years."
-George Orwell

"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. ."
-Soren Kierkegaard

"It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom."
-Aristotle

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end."
-Scott Adams

"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
-Socrates

"Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
-Carl Jung

"The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg."
-Thomas Jefferson

"For others do I wait... for higher ones, stronger ones, more triumphant ones, merrier ones, for such as are built squarely in body and soul: laughing lions must come."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"At the bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique human being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
-Oscar Wilde

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
-Oscar Wilde

"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
-Oscar Wilde

"In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene."
-Virgil