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And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the… — Minnie Louise Haskins
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this… — William Blake
Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How… — Stephen Covey
The Lord Buddha was once asked by a disciple to sum up the whole of His teaching in one verse. He replied: Cease to do… — Arthur E. Powell
A wife says to her husband (or vice versa), "Do you love me?""Of course," he replies. "I've been married to you for twenty years, haven't… — Leo Buscaglia
When I asked Fischer why he had not played a certain move in our game, he replied: 'Well, you laughed when I wrote it down!' — Mikhail Tal
There once was an old man of Lyme who married three wives at a time when asked, 'Why a third?' he replied 'One's absurd! and… — William Cosmo Monkhouse
I met Tom Baker doing a voice-over when David [Arabella's friend, David Tennant] wasn't at all well known. We were doing this voice-over together and… — Arabella Weir
The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was asked what type of earning was best, and he replied: " A man's work with his hands… — Muhammad ibn Isa at-Tirmidhi
Two weeks before his death, a friend asked him half jokingly if he had discovered any meaning in life. "Yes," he replied, "there is a… — Cyril Connolly
A student undergoing a word association test was asked why a snowstorm put him in mind of sex. He replied frankly: "Because everything does." — Honor Tracy
In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still… — Plato
Klopstock was questioned regarding the meaning of a passage in his poem. He replied, 'God and I both knew what it meant once; now God… — Cesare Lombroso
I remember once going to see him [Ramanujan] when he was lying ill at Putney. I had ridden in taxi-cab No. 1729, and remarked that… — G. H. Hardy
When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied, "I am going to… — Abraham Lincoln
A high-school girl, seated next to a famous astronomer at a dinner party, struck up a conversation with him by asking: "What do you do… — James Keller
After Galileo was convicted (for heresy by the Spanish Inquisition) for his theory that the Earth revolved around the sun, ... he replied, `Still, the… — Junichiro Koizumi
St. Francis of Assisi was hoeing his garden when someone asked what he would do if he were suddenly to learn that he would die… — Francis of Assisi
Some time ago I took a trip on the Hudson and Manhattan Transit System. Not being familiar with the names of the various stops, I… — James Keller
Once I asked Teichman what he thought of Bird's chess: "Same as his health," he replied, "always alternating between being dangerously ill and dangerously well." — William Ewart Napier

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