Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: Initiation, The Perfecting of Man (1923)
“His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.”
— Victor Hugo, book Les Misérables
Source: Les Misérables
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French poet, novelist, and dramatist 1802–1885Related quotes
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1940s
“If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.”
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Source: UnSouled
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life — It goes on.”
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As quoted in The Harper Book of Quotations (1993) edited by Robert I. Fitzhenry, p. 261
General sources
Variant: In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
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1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
Context: In private life there are few beings more obnoxious than the man who is always loudly boasting; and if the boaster is not prepared to back up his words his position becomes absolutely contemptible. So it is with the nation. It is both foolish and undignified to indulge in undue self-glorification, and, above all, in loose-tongued denunciation of other peoples. Whenever on any point we come in contact with a foreign power, I hope that we shall always strive to speak courteously and respectfully of that foreign power.
Rousas John Rushdoony (1916–2001) American theologian
Audio lectures, Hybridization and the Law (n. d.)