Top 1200 Among Quotes & Sayings

Among the heaps of brick and plaster lies/ a girder, still itself among the rubbish

Hemispheric solidarity is new among statesmen, but not among the feathered navies of the sky.

We have a very long way to go to really penetrate the power structure. Until that happens, you will not see stability among the workforce, among women - in the workforce among women.

Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest.

I think my reputation among peers is probably different than my reputation among fans. My peers know me pretty well and so it's fairly accurate. I think I'm respected among my peers.

Think the very fact that somebody like Mike Pence is seen as useful to the [Donald] Trump campaign would be analytically a sign of difficulty for him because, you know, the Republican Party over the last two decades has needed to include his support among women, among Latinos, among blacks, among young people, and among highly educated people.

Murder is commoner among cooks than among members of any other profession.

To be among people one loves, that's sufficient; to dream, to speak to them, to be silent among them, to think of indifferent things; but among them, everything is equal.

Hospitality still survives among foreigners, although it is buried under false pride among the poorest Americans.

If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues.

Wit is the rarest quality to be met with among people of education, and the most common among the uneducated.

Usually this desire [for family limitation] has been laid to economic pressure It has asserted itself among the rich and among the poor, among the intelligent and the unintelligent. It has been manifested in such horrors as infanticide, child abandonment and abortion.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.

I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.

He who knoweth not what he ought to know, is a brute beast among men; he that knoweth no more than he hath need of, is a man among brute beasts; and he that knoweth all that may be known, is as a God among men.

Common sense varies among the young, as among the old.

Mercy among the virtues is like the moon among the stars ... It is the light that hovers above the judgment seat.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Among giants, try and be a dwarf; among dwarfs, try and be a giant; but among equals, try and be an equal

Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.

Today there's more fellowship among snakes than among mankind. Wild beasts spare those with similar markings.

For the three decades after WWII, incomes grew at about 3 percent a year for people up and down the income ladder, but since then most income growth has occurred among the top quintile. And among that group, most of the income growth has occurred among the top 5 percent. The pattern repeats itself all the way up. Most of the growth among the top 5 percent has been among the top 1 percent, and most of the growth among that group has been among the top one-tenth of one percent.

... we may remember what the Romansthought a cultivated person ought to be: one who knows how to choose his company among men, among things, among thoughts, in the present as well as in the past.

A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies." Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?"

We find the instinct to shut out competition deep-rooted even among banks and corporations, among corner grocers and haberdasheries, among peanut vendors and shoeshine boys-and even among young ladies in search of a husband.

Old among the young, poor among the rich, I adopt an air of indefinable superiority.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another.

The little cares that fretted me, I lost them yesterday Among the fields above the sea, Among the winds at play.

A politician weakly and amiably in the right is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. You cannot, by tying an opinion, to a man's tongue, make him the representative of that opinion; and at the close of any battle for principles, his name will be found neither among the dead nor among the wounded, but among the missing.

It is not among the palm trees that I wish to die, but among the poor who are Jesus Christ.

I was convinced that hatred among nations and among people perished in Auschwitz. It didn't. The victims died but the haters are still here.

I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows.

I would rather be a freeman among slaves than a slave among freemen.

He was a rake among scholars, and a scholar among rakes.

If my opinion is of any worth, the fieldfare is the greatest delicacy among birds, the hare among quadrupeds.

I answer, because I live among men and not among angels.

Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles.

The ignorant are to be found as much among the educated as among the uneducated.

This man [Chesterfield], I thought, had been a Lord among wits; but I find he is only a wit among Lords.

There is a degree of wretchedness and want among the lower class of people which is not anywhere so common as among the Spanish and Portuguese settlements.

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

You don't have favorites among your offspring, and you don't among the artists you're involved with, but clearly among my most favorite was Patti Smith.

Art among a religious race produces reliques [sic]; among a military one, trophies; among a commercial one, articles of trade.

Among the qualities most needed among those who aspire to true leadership in the fostering of peace and goodwill among the nations and in overcoming racial and religious antagonism is the cooperative spirit and objective.

Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a bitter invective poem.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Although too much of a soldier among sovereigns, no one could claim with better right to be a sovereign among soldiers.

There is a reason for the affected profession of " anarchist sympathies" among Tories and grandees, and of " libertarian principles" by Hobbesian yahoos of the right. Among the former, one sees the upholding of the view that a gentleman's business and property are his own, and none of the government's. Among the latter, a distaste for democracy, for taxation, and for the need to consult others about the planet.

Men and months are interchangeable commodities only when a task can be partitioned among many workers with no communication among them.

Faith is among men what gravity is among planets and suns.

Among adults – and among orphans – Wilbur Larch noted that delirious happiness was rare.

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.

The truth is that at the White House and in Congress, you are as likely to find sympathy for animal issues among Republicans as among Democrats.

As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters. As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons.

I have to live, socially, in an almost unfinished society. Among the almost great, among the almost true, among the almost honest. That allows me to describe the anguish.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia's icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There's no difference.

The longing for a very garish kind of success seems as widespread among writers as among investment bankers.