Miscellaneous Quotes
222 quotes by 152 authors
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Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had…
— Lord Chesterfield
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A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
— George Herbert
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If you be sick, your own thoughts make you sick
— Ben Jonson
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The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.
— George Steiner
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Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent.
— George Steiner
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Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.
— Bruce Feirstein
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The more sinful and guilty a person tends to feel, the less chance there is that he will be a happy, healthy, or law-abiding citizen.…
— Albert Ellis
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I am loaded down to the guards with educational, benevolent, and other miscellaneous public work, I must not attempt to do more. I cannot without…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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A buoyant and full-blooded soul has quick senses and miscellaneous sympathies: it changes with the changing world; and when not too much starved or thwarted…
— George Santayana
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The unlived life is not worth examining.
— Old Tom Morris
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The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore…
— George Harrison
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You are no better than you should be.
— Francis Beaumont
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Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood.
— Augusto Pinochet
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In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the Sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
— Idi Amin
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I want to go down in history in a chapter marked miscellaneous because the writers could find no other way to categorize me In this…
— Staceyann Chin
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All men love peace in their armchairs after dinner; but they disbelieve the other nations's professions, rightly measuring its sincerity by their own.
— Oscar W. Firkins
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The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely.
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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If I say to the moment: 'Stay now! You are so beautiful'!
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.
— Michel de Montaigne
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For if he like a madman lived; At least he like a wise one died.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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