Multitudes Quotes
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
It is possible to evade a multitude of sorrows by the cultivation of an insignificant life.
If the charter of your liberties entails death and despair for untold multitudes, then it is nothing but a license for slaughter.
The great majority of women are more intelligent, better educated, and far more moral than multitudes of men whose right to vote no man questions.
An advantage could consist not only in a single important advantage but also in a multitude of insignificant advantages.
A novel is balanced between a few true impressions and the multitude of false ones that make up most of what we call life.
He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.
What multitudes, O Lord, do this day join hands with Pelagius in contending for free will and in fighting ... free grace.
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that.
Money, again, has often been a cause of the delusion of the multitudes. Sober nations have all at once become desperate gamblers, and risked almost their existence upon the turn of a piece of paper.
It would be better for me ... that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
The hostile multitudes are vast as spaceWhat chance is there that all should be subdued? Let but this angry mind be overthrownAnd every foe is then and there destroyed
Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.
Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is more compelling than that of Anne Frank.
There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.
God enabled me to so agonize in prayer that I was quite wet with perspiration, though in the shade and the cool wind. My soul was drawn out very much from the world, for multitudes of souls.
There are the manufacturing multitudes of England; they must have work, and find markets for their work; if machines and the Black Country are ugly, famine would be uglier still.
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.
perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque.
Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes.
Friends should be weighed, not told; who boasts to have won a multitude of friends has never had one.
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience.
Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.
There is a place on earth that is a vast desolate wilderness, a place populated by shadows of the dead in their multitudes, a place where the living are dead, where only death, hate and pain exist.
