His Quotes
8811 His quotes by 4969 unique authors
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison,…
— John Owen
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Mick Jagger, his face was very new. It became a sex symbol
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Al Gore may think Medicare is at a crossroads, but his plan puts it on a highway to bankruptcy.
— Dan Bartlett
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The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the…
— George Sutherland
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For the Archivist, this role is a result of his obligation to preserve and assure timely and maximum access to our governmental records in the…
— Allen Weinstein
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I'd love to talk to Joaquin Phoenix because he's a very private guy. Also, he's creating a new kind of sexy leading man. To me,…
— Isaac Mizrahi
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Of course a poem is a two-way street. No poem is any good if it doesn't suggest to the reader things from his own mind…
— James Laughlin
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There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
— George Herbert
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He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
— Robert Herrick
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We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was…
— Bob Lilly
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music,…
— Axel Munthe
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If we notice a few errors in the work of a proven master, we may and even will often be correct; if we believe, however,…
— Franz Grillparzer
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It's the misfortune of German authors that not a single one of them dares to expose his true character. Everyone thinks that he has to…
— Franz Grillparzer
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I don't know what I would have done without believing in God. His support gives me power and energy to continue to be optimistic, to…
— Ofra Haza
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When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life.
— Wayne Newton
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You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.
— Wayne Newton
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The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.
— Frederic Raphael
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After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power…
— James Prescott Joule
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We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are…
— Paul Dudley White
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If O.J. had been accused of killing his black wife, you would not have seen the same passion stirred up.
— Al Sharpton
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The narrative constructs the identity of the character, what can be called his or her narrative identity, in constructing that of the story told. It…
— Paul Ricoeur
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Myth expresses in terms of the world - that is, of the other world or the second world - the understanding that man has of…
— Paul Ricoeur
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When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.
— Alfred Kazin
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Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition, rather than asking an artist to set his limits.
— Robert Smithson
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