Clearly Quotes
2192 Clearly quotes by 1642 unique authors
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We ought never to be afraid to repeat an ancient truth, when we feel that we can make it more striking by a neater turn,…
— Luc de Clapiers
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Clearly, if a building is not functionally and technically in order, then it isn't architecture either, it's just a building.
— Arne Jacobsen
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Clearly much that seemed valid seemed so only because he had been taught it from earliest youth.
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely…
— Andre Gide
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As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness,…
— Thomas a Kempis
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The only President who clearly died of overwork was Polk, and that was a long time ago. Hoover, who worked intensely and humorlessly as President,…
— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
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As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there…
— George Orwell
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Why should man fear since chance is all in all for him, and he can clearly foreknow nothing? Best to live lightly, as one can,…
— Sophocles
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You do not see clearly the evil in yourself, else you would hate yourself with all your soul. Like the lion who sprang at his…
— Unknown Author
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Yet there is a dignity in the human spirit which can become most clearly visible in the moment of defeat and disaster.
— Bruce Catton
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The proper method of philosophy consists in clearly conceiving the insoluble problems in all their insolubility and then in simply contemplating them, fixedly and tirelessly,…
— Simone Weil
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Melancholy cannot be clearly proved to others, so it is better to be silent about it.
— James Boswell
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You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
— Thor Heyerdahl
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The politician being interviewed clearly takes a great deal of trouble to imagine an ending to his sentence: and if he stopped short? His entire…
— Roland Barthes
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Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come;…
— Madame de Stael
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A prison is a cross section of society in which every human strain is clearly revealed.
— Eugene V. Debs
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
— Ed Begley, Jr.
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Well, clearly Apple is a role model of the American innovation whereby it produced all these products - iPod, iPhone, iPad - that are really…
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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Well, you know, News Corp is the only real media global - that has a global presence that's involved in TV production, in movies, in…
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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The legacy of Steve Jobs and the strength of Steve Jobs is that he established a company that's clearly firing on all cylinders and clicking…
— Al-Waleed bin Talal
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Not that I want the current president killed. I will, for the record and for the FBI agent assigned to read this and make sure…
— Sarah Vowell
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The longer you live and the more you learn, the more clearly you will feel the difference between the few men who are truly great…
— Gustav Mahler
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I remember when I was very young, I read an article by Fats Domino which has really influenced me. He said, 'You should never sing…
— Mick Jagger
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