Promptly Quotes
98 quotes by 90 authors
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If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that…
— Samuel Butler
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Out of war nations acquire additional territory, if they are victorious. They just take it. This newly acquired territory promptly is exploited by the few…
— Smedley Butler
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One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double…
— Winston Churchill
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During a very busy life I have often been asked, "How did you manage to do it all?" The answer is very simple. It is…
— Richard Tangye
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip and swirl like…
— John Updike
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It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will cause them to…
— Elbert Hubbard
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"I refuse to prove that I exist" says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith, I am nothing." "Oh," says man, "but the Babel…
— Douglas Adams
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It is incredible how as soon as a people become subject, it promptly falls into such complete forgetfulness of its freedom that it can hardly…
— Etienne de La Boetie
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I beat my children daily, with a shoe, because I don't want them to grow up fairies. At 9 p.m. I promptly play The Wall…
— Thom Yorke
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I have often noticed that when people come to understand a mathematical proposition in some other way than that of the ordinary demonstration, they promptly…
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly achieved by passing…
— John W. Gardner
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I was gearing up for it. I took some singing lessons. And I opened my mouth, and Atom promptly said, 'That's not going to happen.…
— Colin Firth
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People always arrive promptly at the places where they are expected.
— Paulo Coelho
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A lot of people came into the airline business. Most of them promptly exited, minus their money,
— Robert Crandall
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If anyone thinks that Jews can steal into the land of their fathers, he is deceiving either himself or others. Nowhere is the coming of…
— Theodor Herzl
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Foreign nationals entering the United States illegally who are taken into custody by the Border Protection Corps or by State or local law enforcement authorities…
— John Culberson
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Right away I thought I'd been hit by a hand grenade ... her (Joni Mitchells') voice, those words ... she nailed me to the back…
— David Crosby
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There is no harm in being sometimes wrong - especially if one is promptly found out.
— John Maynard Keynes
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The ironic life is a life keenly alert, keenly sensitive, reacting promptly with feelings of liking or dislike to each bit of experience, letting none…
— Randolph Bourne
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Don't worry about your physical shortcomings. I am no Greek god. Don't get too much sleep and don't tell anybody your troubles. Appearances count: Get…
— Aristotle Onassis
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