Subsequent Quotes
111 quotes by 109 authors
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In issues of recent ethnic wars and genocides - particularly if you look at Darfur - one of the most remarkable things is our inability…
— Stephen Daldry
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A man should be careful never to tell tales of himself to his own disadvantage. People may be amused at the time, but they will…
— Samuel Johnson
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The player who expects a lesson to 'take' without subsequent practice just isn't being honest with himself or fair to his professional.
— Gary Player
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The Caribbean is such an apocalyptic place, whether it's the decimation of the indigenous populations by the Europeans, whether it's the importation of slaves and…
— Junot Diaz
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The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake…
— Eminem
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If people are failing, they look inept. If people are succeeding, they look strong and good and competent. That's the 'halo effect.' Your first impression…
— Daniel Kahneman
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The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of…
— Jon Meacham
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Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
— George Orwell
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The hypothesis may be put forward, to be tested by the s subsequent investigation, that this development has been in large part a matter of…
— Talcott Parsons
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In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some…
— James Patterson
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A careful analysis of the process of observation in atomic physics has shown that the subatomic particles have no meaning as isolated entities, but can…
— Erwin Schrodinger
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were…
— Naomi Wolf
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Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably more complex and varied than our subsequent explanations of them.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken or written of, though it would be very wrong to say that…
— A. S. Byatt
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I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?†I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s…
— Stephen Fry
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I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement.
— Oscar Wilde
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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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When you develop your opinions on the basis of weak evidence, you will have difficulty interpreting subsequent information that contradicts these opinions, even if this…
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a…
— Elie Wiesel
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Dad always warned that it was misleading when one imagined people, when one sas them in the Mind's Eye, because one never remembered them as…
— Marisha Pessl
Who Wrote These Subsequent Quotes
109 authors contributed a total of 111 Subsequent Quotes, led by these top contributors: