Quotes of: Classic-example Keyword

What are we after when we open one of those books? What is it that makes a classic a classic? ... in old-fashioned terms, the answer is that it wll elevate your spirit. And that's why I can't take much stock in the idea of going through a list of boo...

How to Make Sense

A good example is the best gift you can offer to your children. In your absence, your example is present, which means you are present always!

Daily Drive 365

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

Francis Bacon

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him, and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

Niccolo Machiavelli

To win the cause we all believe in, the spread of true democracy all over the world, we need to win by example, not just with speeches but by example; not just with military might but by gaining the respect of the world.

Barbara Boxer

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

The Cruelest Month: Spring, Nature, and Love in Classical and Medieval Lyrics

The short story is not, as some believe, a lesser form of literature than the novel.

The Best Werewolf Short Stories 1800-1849: A Classic Werewolf Anthology

Children become frustrated and resentful when they view their parents as not being interested “in how they feel and in their point of view.

Between Parent and Child: The Bestselling Classic That Revolutionized Parent-Child Communication

A love of classical music is only partially a natural response to hearing the works performed, it also must come about by a decision to listen carefully, to pay close attention, a decision inevitably motivated by the cultural and social prestige of t...

Charles Rosen

The more choices we have, the greater the need for focus.

50 Self-Help Classics: 50 Inspirational Books to Transform Your Life from Timeless Sages to Contemporary Gurus

What reaches the heart without going through the mind is likely to bounce back and put the mind out of business.

How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading

there are people all over the world who carry the mermaid inside them, that otherworldly beauty and longing and desire that made her reach for heaven when she lived in the darkness of the sea.

Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

How could none of them comprehend the beauty of a human soul,shining in heaven for eternity? Where it would be whole again, as they all had been once in times past?

Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale

We pray for the big things and forget to give thanks for the ordinary, small (and yet really not small) gifts.

Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Faith in Community

I was fairly poor but most of my money went for wine and classical music. I loved to mix the two together.

The Last Night of the Earth Poems

The Guti were a band of mountain barbarians. It's always the way, isn't it? Everything is blamed on 'the barbarians

Stephen Fry's Incomplete and Utter History of Classical Music

Theirs was the eternal youth of an alternating self, a youth with the constant although unfulfilled promise of growing up

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

You're never ready for what you have to do. You just do it. That makes you ready.

Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities

I have received the command from Heaven: May my time be always long and prosperous.

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Victory and defeat are but ordinary events in a soldier's career, and why should you give up?

Three Kingdoms: Classic Novel in Four Volumes

Think of the inconvenience of vanishing as it were from your friends and, correspondents three times in one's natural life.

The Woman's Bible: A Classic Feminist Perspective