Comes Quotes
14340 Comes quotes by 7151 unique authors
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When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to…
— Stanley Crouch
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Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.
— Ned Rorem
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As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes…
— Dan Millman
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The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
— Friedrich Schiller
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Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on…
— D. H. Lawrence
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One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel…
— Joseph Epstein
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If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out of it but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is…
— Unknown Author
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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding…
— George Bernard Shaw
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And I think that we're more of an alternative act in that sense, and that flavor comes across to the audience.
— Juice Newton
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The habit of writing clearly soon comes to the writer who is a severe critic to himself.
— Anthony Trollope
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What usually comes first is the contract.
— Ira Gershwin
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There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having... money in the bank.
— Tom Robbins
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When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly involved in this…
— Simone Weil
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Certainly I shall use the police, and most ruthlessly, whenever the German people are hurt. But I refuse the notion that the police are protective…
— Hermann Goring
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See where she comes apparelled like the spring.
— William Shakespeare
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Christmas makes me happy no matter what time of year it comes around.
— Bryan White
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I have firmly decided to bite the dust with a minimum of medical assistance when my time comes, and up to then to sin to…
— Albert Einstein
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I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.
— Albert Einstein
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What a lumbering poor vehicle prose is for the conveying of a great thought! ... Prose wanders around with a lantern & laboriously schedules &…
— Mark Twain
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A novelist can shift view-point if it comes off. ... Indeed, this power to expand and contract perception (of which the shifting view-point is a…
— E. M. Forster
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke whose punchline you've…
— Ted Solotaroff
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My notion of a failed writing workshop is when everybody comes out replicating the teacher and imitating as closely as possible the great original at…
— Nicholas Delbanco
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A student brings something to discuss, saying, "I don't know whether this is really good, or whether I should throw it in the wastebasket." The…
— William Stafford
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That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to…
— Raymond Chandler
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"If I buy stocks on Smith's tip I must sell those same stocks on Smith's tip. I am depending on him. Suppose Smith is away…
— Jesse Lauriston Livermore
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