Invalid Quotes
56 quotes by 52 authors
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Perhaps most important, judges will have goals. And because this is so, judges will often try to mold and steer the law in order to…
— Elena Kagan
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You need not fear to handle the truth roughly. She is no invalid.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Work cure is the best of all psychotherapy, in my opinion.... As well might we expect a patient to recover without food as to recover…
— Richard Clarke Cabot
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Nietzsche was personally more philosophical than his philosophy. His talk about power, harshness, and superb immorality was the hobby of a harmless young scholar and…
— George Santayana
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In specific circumstances the period of aging decline can set in earlier in a particular organ than in the organism as a whole which, in…
— Wilhelm Ostwald
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To include freedom in the very definition of democracy is to define a process not by its actual characteristics as a process but by its…
— Thomas Sowell
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I had all these desperate feelings. I kept thinking, How will I ever play football again if I can't even get out of this bed?…
— Keith Millard
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Every invalid is a prisoner.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
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The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a…
— Peter Maxwell Davies
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In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
— Richard Eder
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The ideal state is meekness, or humility, or the semi-invalid state of the old. Year after year I am becoming nobler and nobler. If I…
— Charles Fort
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I think fiction isn't so good at being for or against things in general - the rhetorical argument a short story can make is only…
— George Saunders
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A crippled child Said, "How shall I dance?" Let your heart dance We said. Then the invalid said: "How shall I sing?" Let your heart…
— Gabriela Mistral
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I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose.
— Oscar Wilde
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It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Mama, Mama, help me get home I'm out in the woods, I am out on my own. I found me a werewolf, a nasty old…
— Lauren Oliver
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But no one can predict of a certainty what will happen. And none of it will change how I intend to spend the rest of…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Juliana?†the words were low and far—too calm for her husband, who had found that he rather enjoyed the full spectrum of emotion now that…
— Sarah MacLean
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Further, Dr. Gold said with a straight face, the pill at optimum dosage could have the side effect of impotence. Until that moment, although I'd…
— William Styron
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The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that…
— James Frey
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