Moderately Quotes
78 quotes by 73 authors
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
— Truman Capote
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I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the…
— John le Carre
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Drink moderately, for drunkeness neither keeps a secret, nor observes a promise.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Tell a man whose house is on fire to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the…
— William Lloyd Garrison
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Sorrows, because they are lingering guests, I will entertain but moderately, knowing that the more they are made of the longer they will continue: and…
— Joseph Hall
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Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in…
— Alexander Koblencs
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Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.
— Andrew Boorde
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The future seems a little gloomy! Go to bed early, sleep well, eat moderately at breakfast; the future looks brighter. The world's outlook may not…
— Arthur Lynch
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So long as the Constitution is not amended beyond recognition, so long as elections are held regularly and fairly and the ethos of secularism broadly…
— Ramachandra Guha
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For a seriously autistic kid, the best prognosis might be getting into a mainstream school without being too much of a shadow. For a moderately…
— Jenny McCarthy
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I think it's perfectly acceptable and rather admirable to be moderately delusional
— Matthew Gray Gubler
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Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as…
— Thomas Paine
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The people, especially when moderately instructed, are the only safe, because the only honest, depositaries of the public rights, and should therefore be introduced into…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Do good deeds properly, sincerely and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise, and that the most beloved deed to…
— Muhammad
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Chocolate ... is not something you can take or leave, something you like only moderately. You dont like chocolate. You dont even love chocolate. Chocolate…
— Geneen Roth
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The scientific truth may be put quite briefly; eat moderately, having an ordinary mixed diet, and don't worry.
— Sir Robert Hutchison, 1st Baronet
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The best defence of the country is the fear of the fighter. If we are strong in fighters we should probably never be attacked in…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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Play is a subset of voluntary behaviour involving a selective mechanism which reverses the usual contingencies of power so as to permit the subject a…
— Brian Sutton-Smith
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The punishment – to the body, the brain, the spirit – a man must endure to become even a moderately good boxer is inconceivable to…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,
— Robert Fisk
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