Multitudes Quotations

A handful of men, inured to war, proceed to certain victory, while on the contrary, numerous armies of raw and undisciplined troops are but multitudes of men dragged to the slaughter.

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.

He would see civilization in danger of perishing under the oppression of a gigantic paradox: he would see multitudes of people starving in the midst of plenty, and nations preparing for war although pledged to peace.

The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million.

I accept that there are multitudes seeking God, seeking meaning, and so on, but if they reject atheism, I would rather they became modern-day Catholics or Jews than that they became Muslims.

I'm the weirdo. There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, that's not gonna make me happy.

I wasn't a spy. I'd have been spotted in five seconds. Yes, I was in intelligence, but that covered a multitude of things.

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.

The Gospels record that nearly everywhere the Savior went, He was surrounded by multitudes of people. Some hoped that He would heal them; others came to hear Him speak. Others came for practical advice. Toward the end of His mortal ministry, some came to mock and ridicule Him and to clamor for His crucifixion.

Multitudes of people, drifting aimlessly to and fro without a set purpose, deny themselves such fulfillment of their capacities, and the satisfying happiness which attends it. They are not wicked, they are only shallow. They are not mean or vicious; they simply are empty -- shake them and they would rattle like gourds. They lack range, depth, and conviction. Without purpose their lives ultimately wander into the morass of dissatisfaction. As we harness our abilities to a steady purpose and undertake the long pull toward its accomplishment, rich compensations reward us. A sense of purpose simplifies life and therefore concentrates our abilities; and concentration adds power.

But what most astonishes me in the United States, is not so much the marvelous grandeur of some undertakings, as the innumerable multitude of small ones.

All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

Because they are generated in what may seem to be a very comfortable setting, the frequent candor has led to multitudes of embarrassing moments,

When he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

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.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Will covers a multitude of flaws, just as love covers a multitude of sins.

There are multitudes whose life is nothing but a continuous lottery; who are always within a few months of plenty and happiness, and how often soever they are mocked with blanks, expect a prize from the next adventure

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

Lying covers a multitude of sins - temporarily.

Patriotism covers a multitude of sins.

There have been multitudes of times in my career where I could have taken an easier road or a more commercial path, and I've been just like, 'That's not gonna make me happy.'

When millions of dollars and thousands of humanitarian workers poured into Indonesia, we quickly faced the challenge of coordinating our own bureaucracy with the multitudes of approaches and priorities the donor community wanted to pursue.

It's what's causing the funding problem we're having in the budget. We should keep that in mind as we pass these multitudes of tax breaks.

A multitude of words is probably the most formidable means of blurring and obscuring thought. There is no thought, however momentous, that cannot be expressed lucidly in 200 words.

All go free when multitudes offend.

Governments are taking the threat very seriously. It's one of the multitudes of unknown factors that we have to deal with, whether it is the volatility of the fuel prices or potential diseases.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

There are many, many art worlds. Art contains multitudes.

Religion is the only metaphysic that the multitude can understand and adopt.

Let your life be pleasing to the multitude, and it can not be so to yourself.

Amid a multitude of projects, no plan is devised.

In solitude, be a multitude to thyself.

The multitude is always in the wrong.

We are seeing the bitterness of elites who wish to lead, confronted by multitudes who do not wish to follow.

Love covers a multitude of sins…

When an uninstructed multitude attempts to see with its eyes, it is exceedingly apt to be deceived.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

He that doth public good for multitudes, finds few are truly grateful

The views of the multitude are neither bad nor good. [Lat., Neque mala, vel bona, quae vulgus putet.]

This many-headed monster, Multitude.

Any unity which doesn't have its origin in the multitudes is tyranny.

Learning will be cast into the mire and trodden down under the hoofs of a swinish multitude.

What the multitude says, is so, or soon will be so.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

With regard to future bliss, I cannot help imagining that multitudes of the zealously orthodox of different sects, who at the last day may flock together in hopes of seeing each other damned, will be disappointed, and obliged to rest content With the

Servant of God, well done, well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the Cause Of Truth, in word mightier than they in Arms; And for the testimony of Truth hast borne Universal reproach, far worse

Not many people have ever died of love. But multitudes have perished, and are perishing every hour--and in the oddest places!--for the lack of it.

Success covers a multitude of blunders.

The hum of multitudes was there, but multitudes of lambs,Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

I will build a car for the great multitude.

Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitude.

When a person has no need to borrow they find multitudes willing to lend.

Do not lay on the multitude the blame that is due to a few.

There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Dar'st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?

The multitude of false churches accredits the true religion.

Make-up covers a multitude of sins.

I am large, I contain multitudes

To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters.