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«Most of us serve our ideals by fits and starts. The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly. That is dedication.»
Author: Cecil B. De Mille
| About:
Dedication,
Ideals
| Keywords:
aims, by fits and starts, dedication, fits, steadily, unswervingly
«Life, as the most ancient of all metaphors insists, is a journey; and the travel book, in its deceptive simulation of the journey's fits and starts, rehearses life's own fragmentation. More even than the novel, it embraces the contingency of things.»
Author: Jonathan Raban
| Keywords:
by fits and starts, contingencies, contingency, deceptive, embraces, fits, fragmentation, insists, rehearse, rehearsed, rehearses, rehearsing, simulation, simulations, the novel
«But men at whiles are sober / And think by fits and starts, / And if they think, they fasten / Their hands upon their hearts.»
«Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time / is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next.»
Author: Cesare Pavese
(Critic, Novelist, Poet, Translator)
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bestial, bout, bouts, by fits and starts, by no means, commonplace, defenseless, dwells, fierce, fits, intangible, intangibles, nobility, privilege, relive, relives, reliving, reminder, reminders, so as to, sufferer, sufferers, torture, uncalled-for, waits
«Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.»
Author: Ayn Rand
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Wealth
| Keywords:
by fits and starts, fit, fit to, inherit, inheriting, inherits
«An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons - marriage, or meat, or beer, or cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
(Novelist, Scholar)
| About:
Christianity
| Keywords:
by fits and starts, cinema, fit to, meat, nose, sorts
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly
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