His Pocket Quotes
71 quotes by 63 authors
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There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to…
— Christian Bale
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He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an…
— Paulo Coelho
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When none but the wealthy had watches, they were almost all very good ones; few are now made which are worth much, but everybody has…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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He fished in his pocket for his keys and instead pulled out the last geode, gray and smooth, earth-shaped. He held it, warming in his…
— Kim Edwards
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It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket. He had the…
— Theodore Hesburgh
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Lagrange, in one of the later years of his life, imagined that he had overcome the difficulty (of the parallel axiom). He went so far…
— Augustus De Morgan
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You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Hardly ever can a youth transferred to the society of his betters unlearn the nasality and other vices of speech bred in him by the…
— William James
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Philanthropist, n.: A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.
— Ambrose Bierce
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I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy…
— Tina Fey
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Once let the black man get upon his person the brass letter, U.S., let him get an eagle on his button, and a musket on…
— Frederick Douglass
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My dad came over to the house... went into his pocket and pulled out a handful of money, and began to pass it out to…
— Bill Cosby
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I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.
— Tim Scott
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Justin Halpern tosses lightning bolts of laughter out of his pocket like he is shooting dice in a back alley. In one sweep of a…
— Laurie Notaro
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took an acorn out…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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President Bush was once asked which Presidential speech he admired most. He replied that it was the one Teddy Roosevelt had in his pocket that…
— Maureen Dowd
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Money is coined liberty, and so it is ten times dearer to a man who is deprived of freedom. If money is jingling in his…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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I have a great-great-great-grandfather who was a Confederate cavalry colonel, and I still have his military composite photo on my wall. The chemicals in the…
— Anson Mount
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The war correspondent has his stake - his life - in his own hands, and he can put it on this horse or that horse,…
— Robert Capa
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