North Quotes
1176 North quotes by 897 unique authors
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And Oliver North was really a good soldier, up to the last moment, shoving memos into the shredder and defending the policy to the end.
— Bobby Ray Inman
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At night, in the garden, it occurs to you that it might have been your heart that left you as you reached the capital. Your…
— Sarah Hall
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The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart…
— Ramakrishna
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We have global interests, potential threats from elsewhere, North Korea, Iran, Taiwan Straits and the like. We must be prepared for any future threat. That…
— Ike Skelton
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It did not seem to me that prejudice, poverty, discrimination, repression and racism were confined to the North of Ireland. I could see them everywhere…
— Bernadette Devlin
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Our community in North Texas is fortunate to have two thriving airports. We serve millions of satisfied customers and employ hundreds of thousands of North…
— Michael C. Burgess
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The ancient feud between cat and dog is not forgotten in the north, for the Lynx is the deadly foe of the Fox and habitually…
— Ernest Thompson Seton
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I have all the world around me. My walls are 180 East Longitude and 90 North and 90 South Latitude.... Adventure is my guidon.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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Rigel, Betelgeuse, and Orion. There was no finer church, no finer choir, than the stars speaking in silence to the many consumptives silently condemned, a…
— Mark Helprin
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We can get more energy out of the north slope of Alaska; we have available the ability to make ourselves less dependent on those uncertain…
— John W. Snow
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Peter Lucas and I live in Durham but spend a great of time in North Wales, where we have a cottage in the mountains, and…
— Anne Stevenson
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is…
— George Bernard Shaw
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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Until I understand where I am, I can’t get to where I am going. This is the value of a compass when we are out…
— John C. Maxwell
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In a future that portends stronger and more-frequent hurricanes striking North America's Atlantic coast, ferocious winds will pummel tall, unsteady structures. Some will topple, knocking…
— Alan Weisman
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As we weep for what we have lost, and as we grieve for family and friends and we confront the challenge that is before us,…
— Anna Bligh
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When you think about it, Alaska is also near the North Pole, so she must also be friends with Santa.
— Jon Stewart
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Peter Geye has rendered the Minnesota north shore in all its stark, dangerous beauty, and it is the perfect backdrop for this deeply moving story…
— Ron Rash
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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as…
— Mark Twain
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You never hear in the news, 'Two hundred killed today when atheist rebels took heavy shelling from the agnostic stronghold in the north.'
— Doug Stanhope
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People going from Southern Italy to the North say that they feel cold not only for the different climate, but for the less "warm" approach…
— Geert Hofstede
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The first western gardens were those in the Mediterranean basin. There in the desert areas stretching from North Africa to the valleys of the Euphrates,…
— Penelope Hobhouse
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
— Fawn Hall
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Wherever you go, east, west, north or south, think of it as a journey into yourself! The one who travels into itself travels the world.
— Shams Tabrizi
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Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an…
— Malcolm X
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