Fetched Quotes
41 quotes by 38 authors
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Do not fear the enemy, for your enemy can only take your life. It is far better that you fear the media, for they will…
— Mark Twain
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There is something so far-fetched and so extravagant in the idea of danger to liberty from the militia that one is at a loss whether…
— Alexander Hamilton
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I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my…
— Bryan Adams
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My themes will not be far-fetched. I will tell of homely every-day phenomena and adventures.
— Henry David Thoreau
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Looking at the doctrine of Darwinism, which undergirded my atheism for so many years, it didn’t take me long to conclude that it was simply…
— Lee Strobel
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Prefer the familiar word to the far-fetched. Prefer the concrete word to the abstract. Prefer the single word to the circumlocution. Prefer the short word…
— Henry Watson Fowler
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal…
— Michael Kinsley
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A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally…
— Robert Fortune
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It's possible, although far-fetched, that in the future we could think of cancer being used as a therapy.
— Eva Vertes
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I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-borne treasures home.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I hadn't given much thought to the prospect of a Hugo nomination at the time it happened, but obviously once you're nominated, winning one seems…
— Greg Egan
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A dramatic decrease in oil availability is not at all far-fetched.
— Jane McGonigal
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The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not…
— Stephen King
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Who wants a dream that's near-fetched?
— Howard Schultz
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It 's wiser being good than bad; It 's safer being meek than fierce; It 's fitter being sane than mad. My own hope is,…
— Robert Browning
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Far from the richest rapper, but my biggest personal achievement thus far in my life has been retiring my mom early from her job at…
— J. Cole
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My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called…
— Big Boi
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What fetched me instantly (and thousands of other newcomers with me) was the subtle but unmistakable sense of escape from the United States.
— H. L. Mencken
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I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.
— Greta Gerwig
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