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Life Quotes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Exactly. She does not shine as a wife even in her own account of what occurred. I am not a whole-souled admirer of womankind, as…
- ""Dear girl," continued Bob advancing with an imbecile grin upon his countenance, which he imagined no doubt to be a seductive smile, "fly with me!…
- You are my heart, my life, my one and only thought.
- Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help…
- There was a brisk northern wind, heavy and wet with the salt of the sea, and he felt, as he turned his face to it,…
- Dogs don't make mistakes.
- Was it hardness, was it selfishness, that she should ask me to risk my life for her own glorification? Such thoughts may come to middle…
- Yet birth, and lust, and illness, and death are changeless things, and when one of these harsh facts springs out upon a man at some…
- It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
- For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
- Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a…
- It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
- The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.
- My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of existence. These little problems help me to do so.
- Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know…
- ...it is only when a man goes out into the world with the thought that there are heroisms all round him, and with the desire…
- The unexpected has happened so continually in my life that it has ceased to deserve the name.
- The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
- Life, it turns out, is infinitely more clever and adaptable than anyone had ever supposed.
- A dog reflects the family life. Whoever saw a frisky dog in a gloomy family, or a sad dog in a happy one? Snarling people…
- His love of danger, his intense appreciation of the drama of an adventure--all the more intense for being held tightly in--his consistent view that every…
- Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent.
- You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for…
- So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.
- A study in scarlet, eh? Why shouldn't we use a little art jargon? There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of…
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- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle