Double Quotes
986 quotes by 849 authors
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In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Look in the mirror. The face that pins you with its double gaze reveals a chastening secret.
— Diane Ackerman
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I've learned the hard way at the national level that any erroneous statement will very quickly be magnified. So, as someone who talks for a…
— Michele Bachmann
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The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.
— Roy Barnes
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is continually reviewing its safety plan for the 100-plus operating civilian nuclear reactors in the United States. And when those plants…
— Joe Barton
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There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also…
— Jean Baudrillard
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At Oxford University, I studied languages so I could read the great novels as they were originally written. I took what in the United States…
— Kate Beckinsale
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I graduated from the University of Delaware with a double major in history and political science.
— Joe Biden
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My husband is such a healthy eater. Except when it comes to sweets. He never consumes anything except fruit until noon. And then from noon…
— Sara Blakely
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others, of measuring one's soul by…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
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We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's…
— Richard Branson
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I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across…
— Warren Buffett
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My grandmother and I saw an average of eight movies a week, double features, second run.
— Carol Burnett
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But, as we've seen over the last several months, the people in this country are very dissatisfied with the direction that this administration is taking…
— Eric Cantor
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Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.
— John le Carre
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I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
— Muhammad Ali
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I'm not a pop song lyric writer. I can't just focus on one simple meaning or even a double entendre.
— Julian Casablancas
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double…
— Winston Churchill
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
— Emile M. Cioran
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Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.
— William J. Clinton
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