Advised Quotes
160 quotes by 156 authors
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Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to…
— Norton Juster
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I tell the kids that, even in a childhood marked by despair and deprivation, I knew that no matter what happened, I still had my…
— Bill Bryson
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The great Sufi poet and philosopher Rumi once advised his students to write down the three things they most wanted in life. If any item…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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In matters of the heart as well, a certain level of negativity and suspicion is universally recommended. You may try to project a thoroughly positive…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering…
— Sarah Dessen
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Never love a wild thing, Mr. Bell,’ Holly advised him. ‘That was Doc’s mistake. He was always lugging home wild things. A hawk with a…
— Truman Capote
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If someone offered you a pill that would make you permanently happy, you would be well advised to run fast and run far. Emotion is…
— Daniel Gilbert
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I looked at the stained-glass image of the lamb in the window above me, but that only reminded me that lambs are famous for being…
— Maureen Johnson
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He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may well be honored…
— Thomas Keneally
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Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions.
— Rick Riordan
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The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different…
— Erving Goffman
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In attempting to construct such (artificially intelligent) machines we should not be irreverently usurping His (God's) power of creating souls, any more than we are…
— Alan Turing
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Sam picked up his pack, but before he could put it on, Mogget leaped onto it and slid under the top flap. All that could…
— Garth Nix
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October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or…
— John Wesley
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One of the special beauties of America is that it is the only country in the world where you are not advised to learn the…
— Quentin Crisp
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of…
— Gary Johnson
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When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration.
— Robert Webb
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James Agate, a great critic of the day, advised me that the way to learn your job properly was to learn Shakespeare, so I went…
— Donald Sinden
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I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were…
— Henry Petroski
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A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme.
— Richard Flanagan
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