Letters Quotes

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Let us consider an alternative style of thinking, which we can call 'creative thinking.' It is playfully instructive to note that the word 'reactive' and… — John Quincy Adams
A scientist can hardly meet with anything more undesirable than to have the foundations give way just as the work is finished. I was put… — Gottlob Frege
Reverend Fathers, my letters did not usually follow each other at such close intervals, nor were they so long.... This one would not be so… — Blaise Pascal
I was so mad at my agent. I had polished and polished and polished [the play], and he referred to it as a draft. I… — Cynthia Ozick
. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an [adaptation] of your book?… — Laurie Anderson
Outside his office my father had a framed copy of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln to his son's teacher, translated into Pashto. It is… — Malala Yousafzai
From Alexander the Platonic, not frequently nor without necessity to say to any one, or to write in a letter, that I have no leisure;… — Marcus Aurelius
The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. — Thomas Carlyle
Give your children regular, daily doses of Vitamin N. This vital nutrient consists simply of the most character-building two-letter word in the English language No...Unfortunately,… — John Rosemond
I have always loved the process of making the music, reading the letters from the fans who get married to my music, have children to… — Wynonna Judd
I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as… — Tyne Daly
This part of optics, when well understood, shows us how we may make things a very long distance off appear as if placed very close,… — Robert Grosseteste
Put it down in capital letters: SELF-DEVELOPMENT IS A HIGHER DUTY THAN SELF-SACRIFICE. The thing that most retards and militates against women’s self development is… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the… — Isaac Asimov
Many persons who are not conversant with mathematical studies imagine that because the business of [Babbage’s Analytical Engine] is to give its results in numerical… — Ada Lovelace
Thank you all from the pit of my burning, nauseous stomach for your letters and concern during the past years. — Kurt Cobain
Broader and deeper we must write our annals, from an ethical reformation, from an influx of the ever new, ever sanative conscience, if we would… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the… — Isidore of Seville
One man was so mad at me that he ended his letter Beware. You will never get out of this world alive. — John Steinbeck
But in all despotic governments, though a particular prince may favour arts and letter, there is a natural degeneracy of mankind. — Joseph Addison
My business is stanching blood and feeding fainting men; my post the open field between the bullet and the hospital. I sometimes discuss the application… — Clara Barton
You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger. — Mary Matalin
There’s always a stigma attached to the word ‘ambition’ and women. I’ve embraced it. Ambition is NOT a four-letter word and women have to embrace… — Tory Burch
Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once. — Charlie Brooker
The best thing Clinton could do — I think I wrote him a letter about this, but I'm not sure — is to shut up.… — Barry Goldwater

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