Else Quotes
16903 quotes by 8582 authors
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Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else…
— Florida Scott-Maxwell
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Within the Nazi Party, the beginnings of a personality cult around Hitler go back to the year before the [Munich] putsch... Outside these small groups…
— Ian Kershaw
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Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion.
— William Shakespeare
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Every society has a right to fix the fundamental principles of its association, and to say to all individuals, that if they contemplate pursuits beyond…
— Thomas Jefferson
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What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and…
— Hal Boyle
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If we go to work at 8 am and go home at 5 pm, this is not a high-tech company and Alibaba will never be…
— Jack Ma
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You can do anything you want to do. What is rare is this actual wanting to do a specific thing: wanting it so much that…
— Robert Henri
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Every story would be another story, and unrecognizable if it took up its characters and plot and happened somewhere else ... Fiction depends for its…
— Eudora Welty
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My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet…
— Ernest Hemingway
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You'd better discover a more important motive than publication for your work or else you'll go crazy. My sense is that you'll be writers only…
— Sydney Lea
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There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the…
— Mark Twain
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I have a feeling that art is something you do for yourself, and that any time you turn your decisions over to someone else you're…
— William Stafford
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Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.
— Earl Nightingale
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I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I…
— Emma Watson
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Don't believe stories which you see in the papers about troops asking as a special privilege not to be relieved. We stick it, at all…
— Harry Yoxall
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It's hard for them because they want to be proud of me, but I keep reminding them that it's all luck. Luck is what got…
— Robert Pattinson
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Music means freedom to me. But in acting you can pretend to be someone else and I like that.
— Robert Pattinson
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I put a flower in someone's locker when I was 15 years old. This girl, called Maria. Maybe I was 14. She actually thought it…
— Robert Pattinson
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Our firm view is that the president has no legal authority, none whatsoever, to commit American troops to war in the Persian Gulf or anywhere…
— George J. Mitchell
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I see the President almost every day. I see very plainly Abraham Lincoln's dark brown face with its deep-cut lines, the eyes always to me…
— Walt Whitman
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