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devotion
«I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen»
Author: Frank Lloyd Wright
(Architect, Writer)
| About:
Success
| Keywords:
dedication, devotion, devotions, price, unremitting
«I have urged on woman independence of man, not that I do not think the sexes mutually needed by one another, but because in woman this fact has led to an excessive devotion, which has cooled love, degraded marriage and prevented it her sex from being what it should be to itself or the other. I wish woman to live, first for God's sake. Then she will not take what is not fit for her from a sense of weakness and poverty. Then if she finds what she needs in man embodied, she will know how to love and be worthy of being loved.»
«NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition! Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency.... Our *three* weapons are fear, surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.... Our *four*...no... *Amongst* our weapons.... Amongst our weaponry...are such elements as fear, surprise.... I'll come in again.»
Author: Monty Python
| Keywords:
chief, come in, devotion, efficiency, elements, expects, fanatical, Four elements, inquisition, inquisitions, pope, popes, Pope I, ruthless, Spanish, Spanish Inquisition, surprise, the Inquisition, the pope, The Popes, weapon, weaponry, weapons, with efficiency
«My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.»
«Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion»
Author: Thomas Hobbes
(Philosopher)
| About:
Ignorance,
Opinions,
Religion
| Keywords:
casual, devotion, ghosts, natural causes
«Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things.»
«There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible.»
Author: Mother Teresa of Calcutta
(Founder, Missionary)
| About:
God
| Keywords:
beautifully, before Christ, christ, come in, danger, devotion, devotions, in that, respect, sake
«Of all the observations I have made on the strike, none has brought forth so much heat and emotion as the stress and emphasis we put on non- violence. Our most loyal supporters, whose courage and devotion has never been doubted, unanimously and stren»
Author: Nelson Mandela
(Statesman)
| About:
Courage,
Nonviolence
| Keywords:
devotion, doubted, emphasis, loyal, observations, supporter, supporters, unanimously
«There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
devotion, married man, married woman