Allowed Quotes
2088 quotes by 1659 authors
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The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had…
— Marie Corelli
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These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need…
— Mary Todd Lincoln
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Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves…
— Jacob Grimm
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The difference between "trained OK" and "trained perfectly" doesn't really matter all that much to me. I once did a film with Lassie. When that…
— James Stewart
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Every dog is allowed one bite, but a different view is taken of a dog that goes on biting all the time. He may not…
— Harold Wilson
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Abstract work, if one wishes to do it well, must be allowed to destroy one's humanity; one raises a monument which is at the same…
— Bertrand Russell
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And what of my extended family-birds, beasts, and reptiles? They too have drowned. Every single thing I value in life has been destroyed. And I…
— Yann Martel
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It is said about Lord Buddha sadaya-hrdaya darsita-pasu-ghatam. He saw the whole human race going to hell by this animal killing. So he appeared to…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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There is not a girl in the world who`s not Team Edward! Have you met girls who are not Team Edward? Well, they are not…
— Jennifer Love Hewitt
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I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every…
— Jane Austen
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Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed…
— Jane Austen
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The only parental authority I had was the studio. When I was a star, there was always somebody with me, to guard me. I was…
— June Allyson
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Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.
— Malala Yousafzai
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I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without…
— Edith Wharton
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Economists have allowed themselves to walk into a trap where we say we can forecast, but no serious economist thinks we can. You don't expect…
— Tim Harford
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International business, once allowed to stalk uncontrolled, killed the local, the small, the quirky.
— Alexander McCall Smith
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I would call back at least for literature this world of shadows we are losing. In the mansion called literature I would have the eaves…
— Junichiro Tanizaki
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Religious faith in the case of the Hindus has never been allowed to run counter to scientific laws, moreover the former is never made a…
— Romain Rolland
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If your little savage were left to himself and be allowed to retain all his ignorance, he would in time join the infant's reasoning to…
— Denis Diderot
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I ask you and all the leaders of the world: Would you act differently, would you keep silent and do nothing if you were in…
— Miriam Makeba
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