Codes Quotes
130 quotes by 125 authors
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I tell people too young to know that we came up during two of the most dogmatic times in recent history - the so-called hippie…
— David First
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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions.
— Will Durant
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In Italy, the Milanese are well organized but follow bourgeois taste. They adhere to certain codes of elegance, but not to individualism.
— Christian Lacroix
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The family code in Egypt is one of the worst family codes in the Arab world. Polygamy. The husband is having absolute power over the…
— Nawal El Saadawi
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And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in…
— Clarence Thomas
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be mixed with Balzac. It's just…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished…
— Thomas Pynchon
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There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are, will come from…
— Ayn Rand
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Earth is ancient now, but all knowledge is stored up in her. She keeps a record of everything that has happened since time began. Of…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Let’s state it clearly: One great idea of the biblical revelation is that God is manifest in the ordinary, in the actual, in the daily,…
— Richard Rohr
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Now I feel like James Bond. Suave and intelligent, breaking all the codes while looking fabulous.
— Jim Butcher
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Until I am free to write bilingually and to switch codes without having always to translate, while I still have to speak English or Spanish…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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I groaned. Man and his codes! Even in a lawless inferno, man has to give himself some honor, he's so desperate to separate himself from…
— Steve Toltz
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We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal words—that the words on the…
— Maureen Johnson
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In spite of all the refinements of civilization that conspired to make art--the dizzying perfection of the string quartet or the sprawling grandeur of Fragonard's…
— Anne Rice
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Here is Menard's own intimate forest: 'Now I am traversed by bridle paths, under the seal of sun and shade...I live in great density...Shelter lures…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Solitude, I reflected, is the one deep necessity of the human spirit to which adequate recognition is never given in our codes. It is looked…
— Freya Stark
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The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other.…
— Philip Pullman
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We follow the codes not because they bring gain, but because we loathe the people we would otherwise become.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Do you realize that there is nothing in our genes that tells us when to die? There are genetic codes that tell us how to…
— Jillian Michaels
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