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Quotes about Mission


That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind.

Ken Quintilian

The great art in writing advertisements is the finding out a proper method to catch the reader's eye; without which a good thing may pass over unobserved, or be lost among commissions of bankrupt.

Joseph Addison

No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Theodore Roosevelt

Some on commission, some for the love of learning, some because they have nothing better to do or because they hope these walls of books will deaden the drumming of the demon in their ears.

Louis Macneice

A sequel is an admission that you've been reduced to imitating yourself.

Don Marquis

When love once pleads admission to our hearts, (In spite of all the virtue we can boast), The woman that deliberates is lost.

Joseph Addison

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles A. Lindbergh

Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life, The crouching vassal, to the tyrant wife, Who has no will but by her high permission; Who has not sixpence but in her possession; Who must to her his dear friend's secret tell; Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell. Were such the wife had fallen to my part, I'd break her spirit or I'd break her heart.

Robert Burns

You behold in me Only a travelling Physician; One of the few who have a mission To cure incurable diseases, Or those that are called so.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.

Fred A. Allen

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you are alive, it isn't.

Richard Bach

Life is God's joke on us. It's our mission to figure out the punch line.

John Guarrine

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Emile M. Cioran

The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.

William McKinley

Everything on the earth has a purpose, every disease an herb to cure it, and every person a mission.

Mourning Dove

The people who shape our lives and our cultures have the ability to communicate a vision or a quest or a joy or a mission.

Anthony Robbins

Make your life a mission-not an intermission.

Arnold H. Glasgow

A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.

Alfred Hitchcock

Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun.

William Shakespeare

It is the awareness of unfulfilled desires which gives a nation the feeling that it has a mission and a destiny.

Eric Hoffer

One should respect public opinion in so far as it is necessary to avoid starvation and keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny.

Bertrand Russel

I was an infantry officer in the Army from 1969 to 1971. Men in my platoon who had served time in Vietnam told me many stories—but none more chilling than the one from two helicopter pilots. They told me how they would shoot the friendlies on their way back from reconnaissance missions just so they could empty their ammunition before returning to base. The friendlies were South Vietnamese women and children, helpless victims in a war they did not understand. But to the American pilots, they were simply dots on the ground. Whitehead is a political conservative.

John Whitehead

No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Listen! John A. Logan is the Head Centre, the Hub, the King Pin, the Main Spring, Mogul, and Mugwump of the final plot by which partisanship was installed in the Commission.

Isaac Hill Bromley

The inner censor of the mind of the true believer completes the work of the public censor; his self-discipline is as tyrannical as the obedience imposed by the regime; he terrorizes his own conscience into submission; he carries his private Iron Curtain inside his skull, to protect his illusions against the intrusion of reality.

Arthur Koestler

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