Flags Quotes
516 quotes by 417 authors
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name.…
— Yann Martel
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I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same…
— Haruki Murakami
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A regime that wraps itself in the flag of truth fears truth most of all, for if its story is falsified to the slightest degree,…
— Orson Scott Card
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When the kid began to flag, Riley picked her up, swung her onto his back, and kept running. The leopard in Mercy growled in approval…
— Nalini Singh
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People who enjoy waving flags don't deserve to have one
— Banksy
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One day there will be no borders, no boundaries, no flags and no countries and the only passport will be the heart
— Carlos Santana
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In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the…
— Suzanne Collins
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Courage~ What makes the flag on the mast to wave? What makes the elephant charge his tusk in the misty mist, or the dusky dusk?…
— L. Frank Baum
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He started to smile. “Are you waving the white flag?†“Not so fast. I’m saying we can take things slow. See if it blows up…
— Jeaniene Frost
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It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing,…
— Graham Greene
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We are very defensive, and therefore aggressive, when we hold on to a particular belief, a dogmas, or when we worship our particular nationality, with…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Someone said that patriotism is the last refuge of cowards; those without moral principles usually wrap a flag around themselves, and those bastards always talk…
— Umberto Eco
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess…
— Steven Pressfield
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To encounter the sacred is to be alive at the deepest center of human existence. Sacred places are the truest definitions of the earth; they…
— N. Scott Momaday
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
— Annie Dillard
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The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the…
— Italo Calvino
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..when a war ends, what does that look like exactly? do the cells in the body stop detonating themselves? does the orphanage stop screaming for…
— Andrea Gibson
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No, I’m not an American. I’m one of 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the … victims of democracy,…
— Malcolm X
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If that's what you're thinking, then don't even question it. Go let your freak flag fly, brother.
— Anthony Kiedis
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I keep trying to forget, but I must remember. And gather the scattered continents of a self, once whole. Before they plant flags and boundary…
— Saul Williams
Who Wrote These Flags Quotes
417 authors contributed a total of 516 Flags Quotes, led by these top contributors: