Double Quotes
986 quotes by 838 authors
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Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years…
— Marcel Achard
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We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more…
— Barack Obama
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Heat may be considered, either in respect of its quantity, or of its intensity. Thus two lbs. of water, equally heated, must contain double the…
— Joseph Black
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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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The real friend is he or she who can share all our sorrow and double our joys.
— B. C. Forbes
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We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Oh, I am heartily tired of hearing about what Lee is going to do. Some of you always seem to think he is suddenly going…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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Every man rejoices twice when he has a partner in his joy. He who shares tears with us wipes them away. He divides them in…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once…
— Catherine Drinker Bowen
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A writer needs loneliness, and he gets his share of it. He needs love, and he gets shared and also unshared love. He needs friendship.…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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Michael Owen will get double figures this season - or at least 10, possibly more.
— Garth Crooks
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Even the laziest King flees wildly in the face of a double check!
— Aron Nimzowitsch
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It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed…
— Efim Geller
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Your income is a direct reward for the quality and quantity of the services you render to your world. Whatever field you are in, if…
— Brian Tracy
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Our system of private health insurance that fails to provide coverage to so many of our citizens also contributes to the double-digit health care inflation…
— John Conyers
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The evidence that climate change is happening is completely unequivocal... The later governments leave tackling climate change, the harder it will be to combat... The…
— John Beddington
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Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In parts of Montana, salt concentrations in soil water, have reached those double those of seawater.
— Jared Diamond
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From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that…
— Tony Juniper
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This balance between the National and State governments ought to be dwelt on with peculiar attention, as it is of the utmost importance. It forms…
— Alexander Hamilton
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