Capital Quotes
1029 Capital quotes by 716 unique authors
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I could hardly get a boy to look at me. All right, they'd look, they'd even take me out, but no one asked for a…
— Alice Hoffman
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Whence came I, whither go I? Science cannot tell us a word about why music delights us, of why and how an old song can…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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I am a libertarian with a small 'l' and a Republican with a capital 'R'. And I am a Republican with a capital 'R' on…
— Milton Friedman
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We consult astrology charts like the Babylonians, try to make our children into our own image with a firm hand like the Romans, elbow others…
— Ernest Becker
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I stayed only two days in the capital. I was welcomed by a cheering citizenry, who threw flowers at my head. It was disconcerting to…
— Megan Whalen Turner
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How could you not know?" His voice was full of wonderment. "You changed me utterly. You were like a...like a bright, wonderful bloom in a…
— Juliet Marillier
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You can do what you like, sir, but I'll tell you this. New York is the true capital of America. Every New Yorker knows it,…
— Edward Rutherfurd
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The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,…
— Karl Marx
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Nellie grinned. "I always wanted to go to Venice. It's supposed to be the romance capital of the world." "Sweet," put in Dan. "Too bad…
— Gordon Korman
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If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature.
— Ronald Wright
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When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum…
— Thomas Friedman
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Stop torturing yourself, her friends said. Stop living in the past. He was gone. Capital G--Gone. He wasn't coming back. She should focus not on…
— Aryn Kyle
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Those walls and bars are there for a reason,” said Crake. “Not to keep us out, but to keep them in. Mankind needs barriers in…
— Margaret Atwood
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Habits are like financial capital – forming one today is an investment that will automatically give out returns for years to come.
— Shawn Achor
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Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.
— Ray Bradbury
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But the fascinating and unbelievable-but-true thing about Dr. Jefferson Jeffersonis that he was not a doctor of any kind. He was just an orange juice…
— John Green
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The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen…
— Gary Shteyngart
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Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe…
— Frank Abagnale
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Oh, Lady Maccon, I am unreservedly in love with her. That black hair, that sweet disposition, those capital hats.
— Gail Carriger
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It is significant that, as innocent babies are killed, and capital punishment is withheld from their murderers, the same men who plead for the murderer's…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes…
— Jonathan Swift
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Thinking should become your capital asset, no matter whatever ups and downs you come across in your life.
— Abdul Kalam
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We don't know if capital punishment is a deterrent, but we know that men we execute will not murder again.
— Mario Puzo
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If you'd been taken by the Capital and hijacked and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?
— Suzanne Collins
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