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Progress, man’s distinctive mark alone,
Not God’s, and not the beasts’: God is, they are,
Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.
Robert Browning1812–1889“A Death in the Desert”, Dramatis Personae (1864), line 586
- Change
- Hope
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
William Jennings Bryan1860–1925
Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the costs become prohibitive.
William F. Buckley Jr.1925–2008
It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
Neither fire nor wind, birth nor death can erase our good deeds.
Gautama Buddha501–501 BC
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.
Warren Buffettborn 1930
I happen to have a talent for allocating capital. But my ability to use that talent is completely dependent on the society I was born into.
Warren Buffettborn 1930To Barack Obama, as quoted in The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream (2006), Ch. 5
- Luck
- Success
I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it.
Charles Bukowski1920–1994Factotum (1975), Ch. 17
It was the afternoon of my eighty-first birthday, and I was in bed with my catamite when Ali announced that the archbishop had come to see me.
Anthony Burgess1917–1993Earthly Powers (1980)
An event has happened, upon which it is difficult to speak, and impossible to be silent.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Speech on the sixth article of charge in the impeachment of Warren Hastings (5 May 1789), quoted in The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume the Tenth (1899), p. 306
A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Reflections on the Revolution in France (1790)
- Change
- Government
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature, and the means perhaps of its conservation.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Letter to Sir Hercules Langrishe (1792)
- Change
- Nature
At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done⁠—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago.
Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924The Secret Garden (1911), Chapter XXVIIIn context
- Change
- Ideas
When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it’s time to turn out the lights.
George Burns1896–1996