Somewhat Quotes
664 quotes by 582 authors
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Technically, the city of Ankh-Morpork is a Tyranny, which is not always the same thing as a monarchy, and in fact even the post of…
— Terry Pratchett
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If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend…
— Hannah Arendt
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The absence of romance from my history will, I fear, detract somewhat from its interest; but if it be judged useful by those inquirers who…
— Thucydides
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I'm doing a little consulting. I'm somewhat retired, still a director of a company or two.
— Jack Kilby
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What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de…
— Poul Anderson
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I feel like a man who has been asleep somewhat and under someone else's control. I feel that what I'm thinking and saying is now…
— Malcolm X
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A poem is not an expression, nor is it an object. Yet it somewhat partakes of both. What a poem is is never to be…
— Hayden Carruth
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The character inherent in the American people has done all that has been accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government had…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Having a book is somewhat like having a baby, as many woman writers have observed before me: the conception, the long preparation, the wait, the…
— Doris Grumbach
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Problems, however, are rarely solved on the spur of the moment. They must be organized and dissected, then key issues isolated and defined. A period…
— William Redington Hewlett
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Genius has somewhat of the infantine; but of the childish not a touch or taint.
— Robert Browning
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The physician who waits until dead certain of a diagnosis before acting is likely to wind up with a dead patient. Sometimes things develop so…
— Joel Garreau
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I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as…
— Craig F. Bohren
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Remember, someone, somewhere in some corner of this somewhat big world, is out there crying if you're unhappy and is happy if you are! And…
— Faraaz Kazi
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I have thought about the nature of this creative process and have reached a somewhat aberrant conclusion. I don't understand it and I don't think…
— William Beck
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There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more profound…
— Roland Allen
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I feel so grateful when I see a movie and there's a woman who looks somewhat like me. I'm like, 'Thank you, Samantha Morton!' You…
— Melanie Lynskey
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The object of self-love is expressed in the term self; and every appetite of sense, and every particular affection of the heart, are equally interested…
— Joseph Butler
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As with all politically lead governments, foreign investment is the slowest in the media section. Politicians are somewhat paranoid about the media but we still…
— Rupert Murdoch
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Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a man’s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain…
— Henry Mackenzie
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