The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me. Elizabeth Blackwell American Scientist More Elizabeth Blackwell Quotes 1
The young patriots now returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan and other deployments worldwide are joining the ranks of veterans to whom America owes an immense debt of gratitude. Steve Buyer American Politician More Steve Buyer Quotes 0
Creede is built of new pine boards and lies between two immense mountains covered with pines and snow. Richard H. Davis More Richard H. Davis Quotes 0
The CIO put up half a million dollars for Roosevelt's 1936 campaign and provided him with an immense group of active labor workers who played a large part in the sweeping victory he won at the polls. John T. Flynn American Critic More John T. Flynn Quotes 0
Acquiring a repertoire in these days, when the vocal literature is so immense, so overwhelming, that the student with sense will devote all his energies to work and not imagine himself a martyr to art. Alma Gluck American Musician More Alma Gluck Quotes 0
The most accurate representation of how I feel is that I'm incredibly lucky to be working in this structure where people get paid millions to read the news on TV. And, yes, it is insane. And there is nothing I can say beyond acknowledging my immense good fortune, and being aware that I'm blessed, and aware that it isn't going to last forever. Tom Hanks Actor More Tom Hanks Quotes 0
A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind. Lafcadio Hearn Japanese Author More Lafcadio Hearn Quotes 0
Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labor is immense. Arthur Helps British Historian More Arthur Helps Quotes 0
From a consideration of the immense volume of newly discovered facts in the field of physics, especially atomic physics, in recent years it might well appear to the layman that the main problems were already solved and that only more detailed work was necessary. Victor Francis Hess American Physicist More Victor Francis Hess Quotes 0
But let no one be under any doubt that the scale of the challenge that Europe faces in this emerging global economy is immense and the practical pace of our collective action to meet these challenge to date has just been too slow. John Hutton English Educator More John Hutton Quotes 0
History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this. Karl Marx German Philosopher More Karl Marx Quotes 0
The immense popularity of American movies abroad demonstrates that Europe is the unfinished negative of which America is the proof. Mary McCarthy American Author More Mary McCarthy Quotes 0
You couldn't pay me enough to be a law enforcement officer. Their job is a tough job. You have to solve people's problems, you have to baby-sit people, you have to always be doing this cat-and-mouse game with the bad guys. My respect for them is immense. Christopher Meloni American Actor More Christopher Meloni Quotes 0
In 1917 - as we have seen, - Italy suffered a great reverse, losing 200,000 soldiers and immense supplies. Kelly Miller American Sociologist More Kelly Miller Quotes 0
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference. Henry Miller American Author More Henry Miller Quotes 0
It is better, as far as getting the vote is concerned, I believe, to have a small, united group than an immense debating society. Alice Paul American Activist More Alice Paul Quotes 0
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motion of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason. Elizabeth Stuart Phelps American Writer More Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Quotes 0
Of course, Marxism is an example of what Carl Popper would have called a 'World Three' structure, in that it's got immense power as an idea, but you couldn't actually hold up anything in the world and say: 'this is Marxism'. Alan Moore British Writer More Alan Moore Quotes 0
The Roman Catholic church... carries the immense power of very directly affecting women's lives everywhere by its stand against birth control and abortion. Robin Morgan American Activist More Robin Morgan Quotes 0
We shall probably never attain the power of measuring the velocity of nervous action; for we have not the opportunity of comparing its propagation through immense space, as we have in the case of light. Johannes P. Muller German Scientist More Johannes P. Muller Quotes 0
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. John D. Rockefeller American Businessman More John D. Rockefeller Quotes 0
We call that person who has lost his father, an orphan; and a widower that man who has lost his wife. But that man who has known the immense unhappiness of losing a friend, by what name do we call him? Here every language is silent and holds its peace in impotence. Joseph Roux French Clergyman More Joseph Roux Quotes 0
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land. Arnold J. Toynbee British Historian More Arnold J. Toynbee Quotes 0
It seems we are capable of immense love and loyalty, and as capable of deceit and atrocity. It's probably this shocking ambivalence that makes us unique. John Scott More John Scott Quotes 0
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 Clergyman More Junipero Serra Quotes 0