Attributed Quotes

127 quotes by 123 authors

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. I reckon, he said, with a twinkle in his eye, it because… — Dorothea Kent
The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit.… — Albert Schweitzer
We all felt the majesty of the body. In a very short period of time we had seen something that was bigger than each of… — William DeVries
There are no peoples however primitive without religion and magic. Nor are there, it must be added at one, any savage races lacking in either… — Bronislaw Malinowski
[It] may be laid down as a general rule that, if the result of a long series of precise observations approximates a simple relation so… — Pierre-Simon Laplace
During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests… — Corinne Heline
No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability.… — George Carlin
Physicist Isador Isaac Rabi, who won a Nobel Prize for inventing a technique that permitted scientists to probe the structure of atoms and molecules in… — Richard Saul Wurman
The Church was founded upon Peter: although elsewhere the same is attributed to all the Apostles, and they all receive the keys of the kingdom… — St. Jerome
I shall either find a way, or make one (attributed) — Eleanor Roosevelt
Responding to a question about remarks attributed to him that he did not think were his: "I really didn't say everything I said." — Yogi Berra
If 'all the Jewish women in Palestine are hysterical', presumably many of their menkind suffer from the same disability, which certainly does not promise well… — Nesta Helen Webster
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he has the powers… — Richard Dawkins
My true belief about Rock 'n' Roll--and there have been a lot of phrases attributed to me over the years--is this: I believe this kind… — Little Richard
An army to be useful must be a unit, and out of this has grown the saying, attributed to Napoleon, but doubtless spoken before the… — William Tecumseh Sherman
Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much… — Marie Antoinette
If I were asked ... to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of Americans ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The absurdly neurotic role you and the rest of your kind have always attributed to me Erato, the Goddess Muse of Erotic Poetry bears no… — John Fowles

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