Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.
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Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
THOMAS HUXLEY Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Ye shall know the truth,and the truth shall make you mad. Aldous Huxley
ALDOUS HUXLEY It is something that really gnaws at me,
STEVE CURTIS Infinite love is the only truth. Everything else is illusion.
DAVID ICKE Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the ...
MALCOLM X Satire is traditionally the weapon of the powerless against the powerful.
MOLLY IVINS Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember...
KARL PEARSON Thomas was just hundredths of seconds away. Thomas is new to track, but he's making strides.
KIM WILLIAMS The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the ...
ANUJ SOMANY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth.
THOMAS MANN The truth is always more powerful and stronger than love, because the love becomes powerless in the ...
ANUJ SOMANY When a person feels powerless in regard to controlling his life, he can defend against the discomfor...
A. NICHOLAS GROTH One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT KENNEDY I'm often accused of being ahead of my time, but it's simply not true. The truth is that eve...
BRIAN ENO Once freedom lights is beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN If you forsake the truth for something else, then it is through the same thing, that the truth would...
DR HITESH C SHETH when everything else falls apart and crumples away.... your will and soul is still there
BRADLEY ADAM HENDERSON Even a thousand loud lies become powerless in front of one calm truth.
ABHIJIT NASKAR When nothing else is left, art will become the truth of the time.
DAVID LEVITHAN Don't be Religious Freaks cz God is the Only Truth and Everything Else just Good stories to read...
ARIF PATEL 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approv...
THOMAS PAINE The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to hold a man's foot long enough to enab...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.
FRANCIS BACON It was lucky. I did it once before against James? (Blake?s) brother Thomas, but that was a long time...
MARDY FISH Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
VICTOR HUGO My body gnaws at me from one side and my spirit gnaws at me from the other.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Art is Art. Everything else is everything else.
AD REINHARDT Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind ...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The best ammunition against lies is the truth, there is no ammunition against gossip. It is like a f...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Time is our most valuable asset, because everything else is earned by spending it.
JIM GENOVESE Like the sun, truth is self luminescent.
It is reality, self evident, needing no external defense.
I...
O ANNA NIEMUS We're all living in a casino. It's just Vegas. Everything is on camera. Everything is being ...
ASHTON KUTCHER Blasphemy is not an offence against truth, but the offence of truth against Priestcraft.
PHILANTHROPOS When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
SALMAN RUSHDIE Once freedom lights its beacon in a man's heart, the gods are powerless against him.
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We were keeping our eye on 1984. When the year came and the prophecy didn't, thoughtful Americans sa...
NEIL POSTMAN How badly arranged the world is. What is the purpose of ugliness, suffering, sadness? Why our powerl...
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT The devil lives in a double-shot", Roman explains himself obscurely. "I got a great worm inside. Gna...
NELSON ALGREN Three things are needed
For humanity to co-exist:
Truth, peace and basic needs.
Every...
SUZY KASSEM Learn to make time and everything else will follow.
HARESH SIPPY In my view, suicide is not really a wish for life to end.'
What is it then?'
It is the onl...
ORSON SCOTT CARD And however are Dennises take offence,
A double meaning shows double sense;
And if proverbs te...
THOMAS HOOD THREE BASIC TRUTHS
Three things have a limited threshold:
Time, pain, and death. SUZY KASSEM There is no risk-free way to keep your assets away from creditors or else everyone would do it. Ever...
ERIC NELSON There is no risk-free way to keep your assets away from creditors or else everyone would do it, ... ...
ERIC NELSON Another one of the old poets, whose name has escaped my memory at present, called Truth the daughter...
AULUS GELLIUS Celebrity was a long time in coming; it will go away. Everything goes away.
CAROL BURNETT The truth has to work, all the time, everytime, for everyone, no matter what... Or else... It wouldn...
RICKEY LEE MCKIM The truth is always the strongest argument. Sophocles Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and i...
FREDERICK THE GREAT Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
ELVIS PRESLEY Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.
ELVIS PRESLEY One absolutely sure way to be fearless is to speak the truth at all time about everything.
AMIT KALANTRI It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN The person she loved is dead, stolen by someone else. Mine chose to walk away. Chose everything I ha...
VICTORIA AVEYARD After exchanging pleasantries that involved only pleasant greetings, the unpleasant truth was told. ...
APURVA GAGLANI You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love
TARRYN FISHER Huxley: "Tell me something Bryce, do you know the difference between a Jersey, a Guernsey, a Holstei...
LEON URIS Rob Thomas' Stripped performance is honest and pure, ... I was especially blown away by his interpre...
EVAN HARRISON everything is related to everything else.
BARRY COMMONER Everything is connected to everything else.
T.A. BARRON In time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
CHARLES LINDBERGH Who wants to feel everything everyone else feels all the time?
EILEEN WILKS ... truth, whose mother is history, who is the rival of time, depository of deeds, witness of the pa...
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA When the truth is told, you stand face-to-face with a choice: accept the truth or run away from it. ...
RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT FRANCIS KENNEDY One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
ROBERT F. KENNEDY love is love.
everything else is something else.
SCOTT STABILE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP What Huxley teaches...
NEIL POSTMAN My hockey comes first compared to everything else.
CASEY EASTHAM Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
FRANK NORRIS Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it's not going to go
away.
ELVIS PRESLEY If we could control time we would lose control of everything else.
JAMES YAGER The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is every...
ANATOLE FRANCE Jesus will prevail. His Church will prevail. Everything else is just passing away. Our current leade...
TODD H. WETZEL I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "...
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE The seed of everything is in everything else.
ANAXAGORAS I’m inclined to think that the scientific dictatorships of the future, and I think there are going...
ALDOUS HUXLEY It seems to me that the nature of the ultimate revolution with which we are now faced is precisely t...
ALDOUS HUXLEY ...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot in...
ALDOUS HUXLEY And here I think one has an enormous area in which the ultimate revolution could function very well ...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Truth is a tendency.
R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON Larry Thomas was a shoelace away on that screen from going who knows how long.
JAY JOHNSON A rat who gnaws at a cat's tail invites destruction.
CHINESE PROVERB The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity.
GEORGE BRANDES The stream of time sweeps away errors, and leaves the truth for the inheritance of humanity
GEORG BRANDES The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same ti...
DAVID BOWIE Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Truth is generally the best vindication against slander
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The truth is helpless when up against perception
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DAVID MORRISSEY History is idle gossip about a happening whose truth is lost the instant it has taken place.
GORE VIDAL Einmal hat ihm einer im Schlaf die Schuhe ausgezogen, reingeschissen und wieder angezogen. Um diese ...
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THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more h...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The most obvious and the most distinctive features of the History of Civilisation, during the last f...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The deepest sin of the human mind is to believe things without evidence
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics - none in which there is more ne...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A man's worst difficulties begin when he is able to do as he likes
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to rea...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of t...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY A world of facts lies outside and beyond the world of words
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Size is not grandeur, and territory does not make a nation
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The thief and the murderer follow nature just as much as the philanthropist
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The world makes up for all its follies and injustices by being damnably sentimental
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Ecclesiasticism in science is only unfaithfulness to truth
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are b...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY In scientific work, those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterl...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the ar...
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense differing from the latter only as a vetera...
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