Often Seen Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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Words are often seen hunting for an idea, but ideas are never seen hunting for words.
— Josh Billings
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I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.
— Michel de Montaigne
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I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me…
— John Green
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One of the paradoxes of our time is that the War on Terror has served mainly to reinforce a collective belief that maintaining the right…
— Eula Biss
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Know how to get close to it: mountains are often seen from far off - beautiful, interesting, full of challenges. But what happens when we…
— Paulo Coelho
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The belief in the probability of death with dignity is our, and society’s, attempt to deal with the reality of what is all too frequently…
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.
— Sherwin B. Nuland
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body…
— Erica Jong
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It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of…
— Edmund Gibson
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Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh…
— Lord Chesterfield
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Sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities.
— Erica Jong
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For piety lies not in being often seen turning a veiled head to stones, nor in approaching every altar, nor in lying prostratebefore the temples…
— Lucretius
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I have often seen quite demented patients recognize and respond vividly to paintings and delight in the act of painting at a time when they…
— Oliver Sacks
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I have often seen an actor laugh off the stage, but I don't remember ever having seen one weep.
— Bette Davis
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Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not more so. I…
— David Walliams
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you have often seen in the cinema, erich, haven't you, that between extraordinary people extraordinary things like for example extraordinary love can arise. so we…
— Elfriede Jelinek
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Men of passion and vision are often seen as mad.
— Robin Hobb
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She came into a room; she stood, as he had often seen her, in a doorway with lots of people round her. But it was…
— Virginia Woolf
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A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts…
— Victor Hugo
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Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw…
— Lewis Carroll
Who Wrote These Often Seen Quotes
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