Top 28 Excellences Quotes

#1. He took a large tablet of beet sugar (an equivalent quantity of ordinary lump sugar does equally well) and soaked it in Angostura Bitters and then rolled it in Cayenne pepper. This he put into a large glass which he filled up with champagne. The excellences of this drink defy description.

Evelyn Waugh

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#2. All religions promise a reward beyond this life in eternity for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head, of the understanding.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#3. New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

Tim Cahill

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#4. Genius is supposed to be a power of producing excellences which are put of the reach of the rules of art: a power which no precepts can teach, and which no industry can acquire.

Joshua Reynolds

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#5. While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

Joshua Reynolds

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#6. A woman can see a woman so clearly - faluts, excellences, details - all are so clear to her.

Richard Jefferies

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#7. To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

C.S. Lewis

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#8. If he was not commonplace, it was through nothing remarkable in his mind, which was simply clear and practical, but through some combination of qualities of the heart that made men trust him, and women call him sweet
a word of theirs which conveys otherwise indefinable excellences.

William Dean Howells

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#9. There is no destiny awaiting us except what we create through our own actions.

Marty Rubin

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#10. I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.

Buck Brannaman

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#11. I'm sorry.
I couldn't love you.
I couldn't.
Because he...
...appeared before me.

JiUn Yun

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#12. All religions promise a reward for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#13. Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.

Richard Hofstadter

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#14. I started my career in parent education with the idea that we needed to let our kids go. I believed that parents were suffocating for their children. There was no room for individuality and personhood.

Gordon Neufeld

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#15. What a man wishes he generally believes to be true

Demosthenes

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#16. There's always a parallel story. The paths not taken go on in our heads.

Elisabeth Eaves

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#17. It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance.

James Young

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#18. He who fails to please in his salutation and address is at once rejected, and never obtains an opportunity of showing his latest excellences or essential qualities.

Samuel Johnson

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#19. For what is modesty but hypocritical humility, by means of which, in a world swelling with vile envy, a man seeks to beg pardon for his excellences and merits from those who have none? For
whoever attributes no merit to himself because he really has none is not modest, but merely honest.

Arthur Schopenhauer

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#20. We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Isaac Barrow

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#21. You just don't want to push people into doing things that they really don't want to do. I don't think it's going to produce much.

William Scott

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#22. Architecture should be rooted in the past, and yet be part of our own time and forward looking.

Moshe Safdie

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#23. Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#24. The great vice of democracy is that for a generation we have been busy getting ourselves on to the list of beneficiaries and removing ourselves from the list of contributors, as if somewhere there was somebody else's effort on which we could thrive.

Robert Menzies

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#25. Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.

Samuel Johnson

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#26. The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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#27. The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

Cheng Man-ch'ing

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#28. There have been people in my life who meant me well, taught me valuable lessons, and others who have meant me ill and have given me ample notification that my world is not meant to be all peaches and cream.

Maya Angelou

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