Frequent Quotes

288 quotes by 237 authors

I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of… — Thomas Jefferson
Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to… — Friedrich Nietzsche
In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and… — Sigmund Freud
Those of us who frequent the band room have long suspected that Becca maintains her lovely figure by eating nothing but the souls of kittens… — John Green
Luxâ€™s frequent forged excuses from phys. Ed. She always used the same method, faking the rigid tâ€™s and bâ€™s of her motherâ€™s signature and then,… — Jeffrey Eugenides
The "stiff, dead, retracted pelvis" is one of man's most frequent vegetative disturbances. It is responsible for lumbago as well as for hemorrhoidal disturbances. Elsewhere,… — Wilhelm Reich
And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...frequent streets and short blocks are valuable because of the fabric of intricate cross-use that they permit among the users of a city neighbouhood. — Jane Jacobs
The good news is that by the second year, those cravings were about as half as frequent, and by the third year, half as much… — Anthony Kiedis
I guess maybe you donâ€™t get to be the Merlin of the White Council by saving up frequent-flier miles — Jim Butcher
As for others whose lives are not so ordered, he reminds himself constantly of the characters they exhibit daily and nightly at home and abroad,… — Marcus Aurelius
Needless to say, jamming deformed, drugged, overstressed birds together in a filthy, waste-coated room is not very healthy. Beyond deformities, eye damage, blindness, bacterial infections… — Jonathan Safran Foer
If anger were mileage, I'd be a very frequent flyer, right up there in First Class. — Gina Barreca
If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing… — Walker Percy
Lord Nicholas St. John was their only hope, and she had been on the roof when he arrived, for heaven's sake. Ladies did not go… — Sarah MacLean
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary. — Thornton Wilder
Truth is a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, anthropomorphisms, in short a sum of human relations which have been subjected to poetic and rhetorical intensification,… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The patterns are simple, but followed together, they make for a whole that is wiser than the sum of its parts. Go for a walk;… — Steven Johnson
I certainly should have,' he agrees, smiling and thinking what an absurd and universally-accepted bit of nonsense it is, that your best friends must necessarily… — Christopher Isherwood

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