Collects Quotes
65 Collects quotes by 60 unique authors
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The Businessman is one who supplies something great and good to the world, and collects from the world for the goods.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away.
— Jane Austen
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When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first…
— Peter Lynch
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Satan rejoiced when Adam (peace be upon him) came out of Paradise, but he did not know that when a diver sinks into the sea,…
— Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
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To do that, the NSA specifically targets the communications of everyone. It ingests them by default. It collects them in its system and it filters…
— Edward Snowden
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The voice collects and translates your bad physical health, your emotional worries, your personal troubles.
— Placido Domingo
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I'm an anorak. I've always been an obsessive collector of things. Richard Briers collects stamps. I collect cars and guns, which are much more expensive,…
— Michael Gambon
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When it wishes anything done which is really serious, it collects twelve of the ordinary men standing round. The same thing was done, if I…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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God's terrible face brighter than a spoon collects the image of one fatal word;so that my life(which liked the sun and the moon)resembles something that…
— E E Cummings
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Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a…
— Gautama Buddha
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Our civilization has decided that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men. When it…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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During the week, my days are consumed with school commitments, play-dates and work for Baby Buggy, a nonprofit I started, which collects kids' gear for…
— Jessica Seinfeld
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There are three principal means of acquiring knowledge... observation of nature, reflection, and experimentation. Observation collects facts; reflection combines them; experimentation verifies the result of…
— Denis Diderot
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Like a shipwreck or a jetty, almost anything that forms a structure in the ocean, whether it is natural or artificial over time, collects life.
— Sylvia Earle
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A neurotic is a man who builds a castle in the air. A psychotic is the man who lives in it. A psychiatrist is the…
— Jerome Lawrence
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When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or…
— Ron Paul
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I definitely think there's some way to understand how people emotionally feel about somebody, but I don't think data collects it. They're not going to…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
— Carolyn Heilbrun
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You can’t tax business. Business doesn’t pay taxes. It collects taxes.
— Ronald Reagan
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Nature is an expert in cost-benefit analysis,' she says. 'Although she does her accounting a little differently. As for debts, she always collects in the…
— Margaret Atwood
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Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall
— Virginia Woolf
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Since Mags seems to have no ill effects from the nuts, Peeta collects bunches of them and fries them by bouncing them off the force…
— Suzanne Collins
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The writer is the duelist who never fights at the stated hour, who gathers up an insult, like another curious object, a collector's item, spreads…
— Anais Nin
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Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I believe that everyone collects. I think collecting is in our blood as humans.
— Lynda Resnick
Who Wrote These Collects Quotes
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