Classic Quotes
815 Classic quotes by 616 unique authors
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They're not mating are they?
— Prince Philip
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This could only happen in a technical college.
— Prince Philip
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That's more than you know about anything else then.
— Prince Philip
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They're a damn nuisance - I've got one in my bathroom and every time I run my bath the steam sets it off.
— Prince Philip
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Novice Traders trade 5 to 10 times too big. They are taking 5 to 10% risks on a trade they should be taking 1 to…
— Bruce Kovner
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At long as a stock is acting right, and the market is right, do not be in a hurry to take profits. One should never…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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Society is now really ruled by its own logos; say rather by a whole pantheon of its own hypostases and powers... we are beginning to…
— Karl Barth
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Consequently there is a need for spiritual vitality. What protection is there against the danger of organisation? Man is once more faced with the problem…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It is customary to complain of the bustle and strenuousness of our epoch. But in truth the chief mark of our epoch is a profound…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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We have entered a new phase of culture - we may call it the Age of the Cinema - in which the most amazing perfection…
— Christopher Dawson
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No civilisation, not even that of ancient Greece, has ever undergone such a continuous and profound process of change as Western Europe has done during…
— Christopher Dawson
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People complain that the religious ground is unsure who have never compelled themselves to examine it with a tithe of the care spent on a…
— Peter Forsyth
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How often has not the parallel been drawn and the golden age of the Roman Empire, when the external brilliancy of life likewise dazzled the…
— Abraham Kuyper
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The age of the proof is in decline, it is the hour of 'witness' that is coming, hour of the 'marturioa', very calm and very…
— Henri de Lubac
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The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition, renewing our participation…
— Thomas Merton
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To those who have no personal experience of this revolutionary aspect of Christian truth, but who see only the outer crust of dead, human conservatism…
— Thomas Merton
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Each individual Christian and each new age of the Church has to make this rediscovery, this return to the source of Christian life.
— Thomas Merton
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The price that has to be paid for finding truly personal life is a very high one. It is a price in terms of the…
— Paul Tournier
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Much is now being said about evangelism; but before we get effective evangelism, we have to get effective evangelists. Evangelism is useless unless it is…
— Evelyn Underhill
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Of course, the whole Andy Kaufman angle was classic. I'm real proud of that. I mean that is something people are still talking about 20…
— Jerry Lawler
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Judging from what looks like the popularity of this classic wrestling show is that the people like what they have grown to know and love…
— Jerry Lawler
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But our energy woes are in many ways the result of classic market failures that can only be addressed through collective action, and government is…
— Sherwood Boehlert
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Ludlow....is probably the loveliest town in England with its hill of Georgian houses ascending from the river Teme to the great tower of the cross-shaped…
— John Betjeman
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If you like eating meat but want to eat ethically, this is the book for you. From the hard-headed, clear-eyed, and sympathetic perspective of butchers…
— Marion Nestle
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To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the richly-charged imagination of…
— John Cowper Powys
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