Top 100 According To Quotes

#1. When life is going according to plan, we don't stop to question our daily habits ... Maybe it's time to sift through our lives.

Shirley Corder

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#2. According to his habit, Theodore Roosevelt sought to harness anxiety through action.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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#3. According to Chekhov, once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired.

Haruki Murakami

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#4. According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary.

Roy Blount Jr.

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#5. The goal of yoga according to Patanjali I am told is citta vrtti nirodha, which means to be silent or free from mental fluctuations.

Bryan Kest

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#6. Microsoft knows that reliable software is not cost effective. According to studies, 90% to 95% of all bugs are harmless. They're never discovered by users, and they don't affect performance. It's much cheaper to release buggy software and fix the 5% to 10% of bugs people find and complain about.

Bruce Schneier

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#7. On any given day, according to UPS, 2 percent of the world's GDP can be found in UPS delivery trucks or package cars.

Thomas L. Friedman

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#8. This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

Marcus Aurelius

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#9. Fate then is that necessity by which a certain result will surely be brought to pass according to the natural course of events however we may vary the particular circumstances which precede the event.

Charles Sanders Peirce

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#10. Thus I assume that to each according to his threat advantage is not a conception of justice.

John Rawls

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#11. According to the yoga tradition, fear is the source of disease, decay - physical harm, when we're not thriving. And then finally, it's even the cause of death.

Rod Stryker

According To Quotes #1741715
#12. What is politics but fraud? Whatever your own, honest, candid opinion might be, you have to act according to the creed of the party, [at times] against the voice of your conscience, and thus be dependent upon others for your actions, which is quite opposed to the fundamental principles of Truth.

Meher Baba

According To Quotes #1741121
#13. According to the brain-centered model of exercise performance, a runner achieves his race goal when his brain calculates that achieving the race goal is possible without catastrophic self-harm.

Matt Fitzgerald

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#14. According to success do we gain a reputation for judgement.

Euripides

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#15. Partyism certainly isn't as horrible as racism; no one is enslaved or turned into a lower caste. But according to some measures, partyism now exceeds racism. In

Cass R. Sunstein

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#16. Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

Isak Dinesen

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#17. The constant broadcast and reception of ghostly images via radio and television, according to this notion, had weakened the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical the sense, particularly among youth, of possessing physical bodies and private identities.
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Marshall McLuhan

According To Quotes #1737550
#18. In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed.

Immanuel Kant

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#19. Until the building of Solomon's temple the unity of worship according to it had, properly speaking, never had any existence; and, moreover, it is easy to read between the lines that even after that date it was more a pious wish than a practical demand.

Julius Wellhausen

According To Quotes #1736937
#20. The tragedy of "Hamlet" is critically considered to be the masterpiece of dramatic poetry; and the tragedy of "Hamlet" is also, according to the testimony of every sort of manager, the play of all others which can invariably be depended on to fill a theater.

George Augustus Henry Sala

According To Quotes #1736716
#21. Heard a rumor you can't cook," he said.
She didn't look away from her reading. "You know rumors.
They're always true."
She had him there. According to some of the tabloids, he had fourteen love children, two with aliens and one with the sister of Bigfoot.

Jamie Farrell

According To Quotes #1736638
#22. What have I always believed?
That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right.

Terry Pratchett

According To Quotes #1736577
#23. If you were a shadowy, anonymous figure, it made sense to pretend everything had gone according to some diabolical plan. Never mind if it hadn't.

Courtney Milan

According To Quotes #1735803
#24. Sometimes I get in writing moods and I want to write a song every couple of days. Then sometimes I may not write a song for three weeks. It's just according to how it's hitting me at the time.

Ashton Shepherd

According To Quotes #1734764
#25. [T]here is not a syllable in the plan under consideration which directly empowers the national courts to construe the laws according to the spirit of the Constitution.

Alexander Hamilton

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#26. Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Nadine Gordimer

According To Quotes #1734257
#27. We do not need to operate according to the idea of a predetermined program for our lives.

John O'Donohue

According To Quotes #1733517
#28. When you eat sugar, according to research by Bartley Hoebel of Princeton University, it triggers a response in the same part of the brain - known as the "reward center" - that is targeted by cocaine, alcohol, nicotine, and other addictive substances.

Anonymous

According To Quotes #1733505
#29. According to Zen philosophy each human being has two minds, a finite mind and an infinite mind.

Frederick Lenz

According To Quotes #1732945
#30. It would indeed be a sad misfortune if man were released from the necessity of work and struggle, for it is a well-known fact that organs which do not function atrophy; and according to the old saying, 'Idleness is the devil's workshop.'

Charles A. Beard

According To Quotes #1732793
#31. God's love-eye does not see essentially into the wicked rebellious apostate soul; neither also into the devil, but his anger-eye sees thereinto; that is, God, according to the property of the anger or fire of wrath, sees in the devil, and in the false soul.

Jakob Bohme

According To Quotes #1732328
#32. The National Security Agency has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress granted the agency broad new powers in 2008, according to an internal audit and other top-secret documents.

Barton Gellman

According To Quotes #1732065
#33. For President Clinton, according to this discussion I had with him, Rwanda was a marginal problem.

Boutros Boutros-Ghali

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#34. The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age.

Richard Hofstadter

According To Quotes #1730108
#35. According to Time magazine, global warming is 33% worse than we thought. You know what that means? Al Gore is one-third more annoying than we thought.

Jay Leno

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#36. The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

Vernon Howard

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#37. I'm intrigued by films that have a singular vision behind them. A lot of studio movies have ten writers by the time they're done. You have a movie testing 200 times, making adjustments according to various people's opinions. It's difficult to have an undistilled vision.

Carla Gugino

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#38. No one has an obligation to love anyone else, but we are all under an obligation to respect each other. According to this logic, Saramago considered

Jose Saramago

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#39. I do not want you ever to initiate any action for any refunds of taxes without first consulting me and presenting the matter fully to me so that I may judge whether it is an honorable and ethical action to take, not simply legally, but according to my own personal standards.

Ernest Hemingway,

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#40. Leadership is not about power. It's not about control; it's about helping people live according to the vision.

Kenneth H. Blanchard

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#41. According to the London-based Anti-Slavery International (ASI), the world's oldest human rights organization, there are at least 27 million people in some form of slavery around the world today. And remarkably, the U.S. contributes enormously to this sad state of the global society.

Linda Smith

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#42. According to Hannah, real life just happens, whereas stories make sense. When you put real life in print, she says, you show it up for the pointless mess it really is.

Jincy Willett

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#43. Yeah according to my- Hey, are you staring at my chest? -Rose to Adrian

Richelle Mead

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#44. Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artists metaphysical value judgments.

Ayn Rand

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#45. What you end up experiencing is really a personal presentation of the world according to you, rather than the stark, unfiltered experience of what is really out there. This mental manipulation of the outer experience allows you to buffer reality as it comes in.

Michael Singer

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#46. According to Rushdoony, the conditions of the Irish transport were as bad or worse than what we know of slave ships, and the condition of Irish immigrants on arrival was "far worse than that of slaves:

Julie Ingersoll

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#47. According to A Course in Miracles, this separation from God first happened millions of years ago. But the important revelation, the crux of the Course, is that in reality it never happened at all.

Marianne Williamson

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#48. Independence means you decide according to the law and the facts.

Stephen Breyer

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#49. 37For nothing will be impossible with God." 38And Mary said, "Behold, I am the servant [6] of the Lord; let it be to me according to your word." And the angel departed from her.

Anonymous

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#50. Today, diabetes is now epidemic, according to the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association and other national healthcare leaders.

Tim Holden

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#51. [W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth ... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!

Mike Huckabee

According To Quotes #1718079
#52. Even something as complex as the eye has appeared several times; for example, in the squid, the vertebrates, and the arthropods. It's bad enough accounting for the origin of such things once, but the thought of producing them several times according to the modern synthetic theory makes my head swim

Frank B. Salisbury

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#53. experiment was conducted in the Soviet Union, and it failed miserably. 'Everyone would work according to their abilities, and receive according to their needs' turned out in practice into 'everyone would work as little as they can get away with, and receive as much as they could grab'.

Yuval Noah Harari

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#54. The plant never lapses into mere arid functionalism; it fashions and shapes according to logic and suitability, and with its primeval force compels everything to attain the highest artistic form.

Karl Blossfeldt

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#55. According to Scripture, everything is connected, and every action has at least some effect on the whole.

Erwin Raphael McManus

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#56. And we know that God causes everything to work together for the good of those who love God and are called according to his purpose for them. ROMANS 8:28

Francine Rivers

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#57. Women see everything or nothing according to the inclination of their hearts. Love is their sole light.

Honore De Balzac

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#58. To work with the hands or brain, according to our requirements and our capacities, to do that which lies before us to do, is more honorable than rank and title.

Albert Pike

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#59. It is seldom right to say that anything is true 'according to Google.' Google is the oracle of redirection. Go there for 'hamadryad,' and it points you to Wikipedia. Or the Free Online Dictionary. Or the Official Hamadryad Web Site (it's a rock band, too, wouldn't you know).

James Gleick

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#60. Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.

Scott Westerfeld

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#61. Occurrences which according to received theories ought not to happen, are the facts which serve as clues to new discoveries

John Herschel

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#62. According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#63. What would become of history, had we not a dependence on the veracity of the historian, according to the experience, what we have had of mankind?

David Hume

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#64. Sometimes the best plan is to simply expect that things might not go according to plan.

Tanya Masse

According To Quotes #1707117
#65. No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.

Rosalind E. Krauss

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#66. The preacher's garment is cut according to the pattern of that of the hearers, for the most part.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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#67. Effective organizations put people in jobs in which they can do the most good. They place people
and allow people to place themselves
according to their strengths.

Peter Drucker

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#68. Education in the true sense is helping the individual to be mature and free, to flower greatly in love and goodness. That is what we should be interested in, and not in shaping the child according to some idealistic pattern.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

According To Quotes #1705590
#69. Many people claim to be liberated ... it's an endless list! According to "moi", as Ms. Piggy would say, there are currently, on this earth, 12 beings who are self-realized. Eleven are men, one is a woman. Most of them are in the Far East, most of them you've never heard of and probably never will.

Frederick Lenz

According To Quotes #1704103
#70. According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates.

Gilles Deleuze

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#71. When I went to college, my parents threw a going away party for me, according to the letter.

Emo Philips

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#72. If we don't pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.

Madeleine L'Engle

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#73. Garde-toi, tant que tu vivras, De juger des gens sur la mine. Beware as long as you live, Of judging others according to appearance alone.

Jean De La Fontaine

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#74. Therefore, according to the Bible, the essence of a city was not the population's size but its density. A city is a social form in which people physically live in close proximity to one another.

Timothy Keller

According To Quotes #1701485
#75. Like most modern words, "Heresy" is used both vaguely and diversely. It is used vaguely because the modern mind is as averse to precision in ideas as it is enamored of precision in measurement. It is used diversely because, according to the man who uses it, it may represent any one of fifty things.

Hilaire Belloc

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#76. Permit each man to think according to his light.

William Walker Atkinson

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#77. When respect is shown according to what is proper, one keeps far from shame and disgrace.

Confucius

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#78. Novelists of a conservative or more purely aesthetic bent hold up better on the surface, but their novels go in and out of fashion according to relevance or irrelevance.

Jane Smiley

According To Quotes #1699904
#79. Jesus announced which will be the criteria of the final judgment of our lives: we will be judged according to love.We will be judged according to the poor of spirit or money.

Mother Teresa

According To Quotes #1697855
#80. I was a linear thinker, and according to Zen linear thinking is nothing but a delusion, one of the many that keep us unhappy. Reality is nonlinear, Zen says. No future, no past. All is now.

Phil Knight

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#81. Never dance according to the tune of music played by your oppressors.
Pray to have enough courage, grace to be tolerant and compassionate.

Lailah Gifty Akita

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#82. According to Seneca, Apicius committed suicide because, having spent one tenth of a considerable fortune on his kitchen, he realized that he could not long continue in the style he had chosen.

Mark Kurlansky

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#83. Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Marcus Aurelius

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#84. People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

Victor Hugo

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#85. Let us ask the Holy Spirit for the grace to live daily according to the mind of Jesus and his Gospel.

Pope Francis

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#86. According to scriptures at least I know the Bible states not to make any permanent marks on your body.

Bill Vaughan

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#87. If a plant cannot live according to its nature, it dies; and so a man.

Henry David Thoreau

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#88. According to research done by Cimigo, on average internet users in Vietnam spend about 2 hours online everyday.

Chandler Nguyen

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#89. The organizing principle, which according to an eternal law creates the different essential organs of the body, and animates them, is not itself seated in one particular organ.

Johannes P. Muller

According To Quotes #1691470
#90. You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

Judith Guest

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#91. Freedom is where you can live, as pleases a brave heart; where you can live according to the customs and laws of your Fathers; where you are made happy by that which made your most distant ancestors happy.

Ernst Moritz Arndt

According To Quotes #1690842
#92. My first memory was of stories about the past - a past that, according to the storytellers, was superior in every way to the life then being lived. It didn't take me long, however, to understand that the present was all we had, for the past was gone, and nothing could be done about it.

Horton Foote

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#93. To govern according to the sense and agreement of the interests of the people is a great and glorious object of governance. This object cannot be obtained but through the medium of popular election, and popular election is a mighty evil.

Edmund Burke

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#94. The global policy shift toward neo-liberalism that took place during the 1980s and 1990s was supposed, according to its proponents, to bring a convergence of living standards of richer and poorer nations. This never actually happened.

Noreena Hertz

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#95. When a man is at peace with his gods and ancestors, his harvest will be good or bad according to the strength of his arm.

Chinua Achebe

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#96. An irrefutable proof that such single-celled primaeval animals really existed as the direct ancestors of Man, is furnished according to the fundamental law of biogeny by the fact that the human egg is nothing more than a simple cell.

Ernst Haeckel

According To Quotes #1688801
#97. I know these two weeks have been God walking right into my life like he has flesh and Kool-Aid coloured hair. The gospel according to Bodee Lennox. His safety. His protection. And love.

Courtney C. Stevens

According To Quotes #1687486
#98. As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went much beyond it, thus making the voyage much longer than was necessary.

Junipero Serra

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#99. Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

Roger Chamberlain

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#100. Praise has different effects, according to the mind it meets with; it makes a wise man modest, but a fool more arrogant, turning his weak brain giddy.

Owen Feltham

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