Etc Quotes

701 Etc quotes by 563 unique authors

Remember William Blake who said: "Improvement makes straight, straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." The truth is, life itself,… — Brenda Ueland
Seriously, our nation is never going to be on the same page on issues like gun control, welfare, the economy, the environment, etc. I doubt… — Jen Lancaster
I believe Western culture -- rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. -- is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in… — Mark Steyn
You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so. — Doris Lessing
There is nothing everyone is so afraid of as being told how vastly much he is capable of. You are capable of - do you… — Soren Kierkegaard
A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; heâ€™d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only… — C.S. Lewis
The ninety-nine cent price of a fast-food hamburger simply doesn't take account of that meal's true cost--to soil, oil, public health, the public purse, etc.,… — Michael Pollan
The Divine was beyond description, beyond knowing, beyond comprehension. To say that the Divine was Creation divided by Destruction was as close as one could… — Tom Robbins
Notice how many of the Olympic athletes effusively thanked their mothers for their success? â€œShe drove me to my practice at four in the morning,â€… — Paul Theroux
Do you realize that people don't know how to read Kafka simply because they want to decipher him? Instead of letting themselves be carried away… — Milan Kundera
Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that… — Robert Bresson
Most of the time when I have met artists who have meant a lot to me, the experience has been well above expectation. People like… — Henry Rollins
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . .… — William Makepeace Thackeray
Language is not made to be believed but to be obeyed, and to compel obedience newspapers, news, proceed by redundancy, in that they tell us… — Gilles Deleuze
If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beautyâ€”by forms, I am referring to coherent systems of hypotheses, axioms, etc.â€”to forms that… — Werner Heisenberg
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so… — Kurt Vonnegut
The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think,… — Karl Marx
Top Trumps appeared to be a game in which you got cards, and the cards had a picture (in this case, of a horse), and… — Maureen Johnson
You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their… — Herbert M. Shelton
When a soldier complains of his hard life (or a labourer, etc.) try giving him nothing to do. — Blaise Pascal

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