Otherwise Quotes
2652 Otherwise quotes by 1879 unique authors
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Get up, and set your shoulder to the wheel - How long is this life for? As you have come into this world, leave some…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Contention, especially violence, is not the way to deal with our problems. Unfortunately, television, videos, movies, and electronic games teach otherwise. Even cartoons and many…
— Unknown Author
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The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it.
— Mark Twain
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For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of…
— Anne Bancroft
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Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing.
— Laura Miller
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If in the first act you have hung a pistol on the wall, then in the following one it should be fired. Otherwise don't put…
— Anton Chekhov
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Speech is highly elliptical. It would scarcely be endurable otherwise. Ellipsis is indispensable to the writer or speaker who wants to be brief and pithy,…
— Bergen Evans
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From the reader's point of view, punctuation provides a map for one who must otherwise drive blindly past the by-ways, intersections, and detours of a…
— Unknown Author
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I never claim my photographs reveal some definitive truth. I claim that this is what I saw and felt about the subject at the time…
— David Hurn
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International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic…
— Danny Baker
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The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of…
— Robert Adams
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Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.
— George Will
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Sometimes animals may suffer more because of their more limited understanding. If, for instance, we are taking prisoners in wartime we can explain to them…
— Peter Singer
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He said that few people had intellectual resources sufficient to forgo the pleasures of wine. They could not otherwise contrive how to fill the interval…
— Samuel Johnson
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For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise…
— Robin Winks
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Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise.…
— Denise Levertov
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Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have…
— Mark Twain
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We declare that no one is permitted to introduce, or to describe, or to compare, or to study, or otherwise to teach another faith. Whoever…
— Pope Agatho
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One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We have not been left alone. We have the light of Christ and the Holy Ghost to lead and guide us in an otherwise very…
— Robert D. Hales
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One of the curious things about censorship is that no one seems to want it for himself. We want censorship to protect someone else; the…
— Edgar Dale
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When we invite the Holy Ghost to fill our minds with light and knowledge, He "quickens" us, that is to say, enlightens and enlivens the…
— Keith K. Hilbig
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The inscrutability [of economics] is perhaps not unintentional. It gives endless employment to dialecticians who otherwise might become public charges or, at very worst, swindlers…
— Jack Vance
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The replicators that exist tend to be the ones that are good at manipulating the world to their own advantage. But other replicators are also…
— Richard Dawkins
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No man in this country is under the smallest obligation, moral or otherwise, so to arrange his legal relations to his business or his property…
— Unknown Author
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