Furthered Quotes

#1. All conflicts can be resolved. Wars and conflicts are not inevitable. They are caused by human beings. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore those who have power and influence can also stop them. Peace is a question of will.

Martti Ahtisaari

#2. As is said about most writers: on the one hand all I ever did from when I was a child was read, and I was a loner, which was furthered by my parents and my upbringing.

Elfriede Jelinek

#3. The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads

H.L. Mencken

#4. If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.

Oswald Chambers

#5. The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

Kenneth Waltz

#6. The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly fed

William James

#7. There are always interests that are furthered by war. Therefore, those who have power and influence can also stop them ... we should not accept any excuses from those in power.

Martti Ahtisaari

#8. Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use
of the book of the world.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.

H.L. Mencken

#10. Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. I typically don't get into predicting the success of my projects. I've been involved with a lot of projects that I thought should have really gained notoriety and furthered my career, only to be met with the cold grasp of disappointment. So I typically stay away from predicting how a film will do.

Bokeem Woodbine

#12. The greatest war story ever told commemorates a war that established no boundaries, won no territory, and furthered no cause.

Caroline Alexander

#13. Hegel believed that progress is ultimately furthered by the person who is out of step with the majority. Only this person, the genuine nonconformist, really experiences the constraints on freedom. Only this person is in the position of questioning the prevailing understandings of happiness. For

Stephen Eric Bronner

#14. The thinkers in their youth are almost always very lonely creatures. . . . The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself least lonely, most positively furthered and most richly fed. - WILLIAM JAMES1

Niall Ferguson

#15. Ancient Rome was a violent place.

James Purefoy

#16. I'm a bit of a gunner on the QWERTY keyboard.

Jay Watson

#17. You will never see the end, if you give up in the middle

Joyce Meyer

#18. Existence without essence is very stressful.

Brian Christian

#19. Those moments of solitude and exhibiting a mental breakdown, and how you do that physically and without it being too obvious, but being relatively settled but relatively intense. There are some intense moments in there that sort of pepper his breakdown.

Elijah Wood

#20. It's a great humanitarian injustice. Their families are here and they've been here. It's long past time for them to be reunited.

Jeff Cohen

#21. Give my book The Sixties Girl a read. You'll love it. You'll laugh, cry and find yourself wanting more.

Victoria Staat

#22. You have to be able to laugh at yourself. Attitude is almost more important than what happens to you.

Dick Van Dyke

#23. When we're with other people and they say nothing, the situation becomes irritating, tense, unbearable.

Paulo Coelho

#24. Ocean: The endless part of yourself you never knew but always suspected was there.
-Madeline (Madeline's Dictionary)

Nicola Yoon

#25. Stories are the thing which shapes our kinky and wicked minds.

Deyth Banger

#26. Heaven is a condition and a sanctified nature toward which all godly striving tends; it is not a place to be found by walking through the right door with a heavenly hall pass.

Terryl L. Givens

#27. I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

M.J. Rose

#28. Life does not live.

Ferdinand Kurnberger