Letters Quotes
1592 Letters quotes by 1184 unique authors
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Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
— Nick Bantock
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By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients…
— Bill Gates
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As nonhuman animals, plants, and even 'inanimate' rivers once spoke to our oral ancestors, so the ostensibly “inert” letters on the page now speak to…
— David Abram
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In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.
— Anatole Broyard
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My dear Isa, I now sit down on my botom to answer all your kind and beloved letters which you was so good as to…
— Marjorie Fleming
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It was a saying of an ancient philosopher, which I find some of our writers have ascribed to Queen Elizabeth, who perhaps might have taken…
— Joseph Addison
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We have only to see a few letters of the alphabet spelling our name in the sand to recognize at once the work of an…
— John Lennox
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"Do you love me?"; "Are you my friend?". The One who scrutinizes hearts (cf. Rom 8:27), makes himself a beggar of love and questions us…
— Pope Francis
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When you couple this militarization of law enforcement with an erosion of civil liberties and due process that allows the police to become judge and…
— Rand Paul
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Music has seven letters, writing has twenty-six notes
— Joseph Joubert
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Letters do love one another. However, due to their anatomical differences, some letters have a hard time achieving intimacy.
— Ellen Lupton
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Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a…
— Pico Iyer
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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
— Johann Georg Hamann
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I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course,…
— Ian Mckellen
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In civilized societies, if you are offended by a cartoon, you do not burn flags, take up guns and raid buildings, chant death to your…
— Michelle Malkin
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The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter...
— Mark Twain
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I like to joke that I probably hold the world record for rejection letters. Yes, the truth is that I was fed up of being…
— Ashwin Sanghi
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When something feels really big, too big to handle, just go very small. Just go real small, just look at the person next to you…
— Amy Poehler
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History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if…
— Howard Zinn
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I keep all of my letters, postcards, and thank you notes. I'll keep them forever!
— Jane Levy
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I'm not a political thinker, but I've just always thought of myself as a Labour supporter. I was a great fan of Tony Blair. He…
— David Walliams
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I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain…
— Mitch Hedberg
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"On my honor" - what an ennobling phrase! Three short words, nine letters, but the summation of all we call character. From the Boy Scout's…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Self-publishing in comics is core to the whole artform. There is no scarlet letter in comics as there still is, to some degree, in prose.…
— Kieron Gillen
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"You cannot believe what you are saying." "Well, no. Hardly ever. But the philosopher is like the poet. The latter composes ideal letters for an…
— Umberto Eco
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