I Reply Quotes
44 quotes by 39 authors
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We would have every arbitrary barrier thrown down. We would have every path laid open to women as freely as to men. If you ask…
— Margaret Fuller
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Should one ask: 'how do I cope with a well-ordered enemy host about to attack me?' I reply: seize something he cherishes and he will…
— Sun Tzu
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Young people, even in Hollywood, ask me, 'Were you really married to Humphrey Bogart?' 'Well, yes, I think I was,' I reply.
— Lauren Bacall
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My son tells me, 'Do you realize you are the last one? The last person who was an eyewitness to the golden age?' Young people,…
— Lauren Bacall
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Before I was born my mother was in great agony of spirit and in a tragic situation. She could take no food except iced oysters…
— Isadora Duncan
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I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh…
— Dalai Lama
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When people ask me what they should do, I reply, "Get informed, get outraged, and then get political."
— Joseph J. Romm
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I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve…
— Robert Browning
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I had to dare a little bit. Who am I kidding-I had to dare a lot. Dont wear one ring, wear five or six. People…
— Liberace
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Those chess lovers who ask me how many moves I usually calculate in advance, when making a combination, are always astonished when I reply, quite…
— Richard Reti
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Do you tell me that the Bible is against our rights? Then I say that our claims do not rest upon a book written no…
— Ernestine Rose
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I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.
— Kofi Annan
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I just try to put the thing out and hope somebody will read it. Someone says: 'Whom do you write for?' I reply: 'Do you…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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When asked, 'Shall I tell my mother I'm gay?', I reply, 'Never tell your mother anything.
— Quentin Crisp
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The poem springs from the half spoken words of the patient.... When asked, how I have for so many years continued an equal interest in…
— William Carlos Williams
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You say that freedom of utterance is not for time of stress, and I reply with the sad truth that only in time of stress…
— William Allen White
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Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been…
— Victor Hugo
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How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's…
— Denis Johnson
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I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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What do you think it is to be normal?' Why in the world would you want to be?' she says. I don't know. I guess…
— Patrick Jones
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