Suggested Quotes
413 quotes by 353 authors
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I had studied theater for three years in London when someone suggested me for the role.
— Orlando Bloom
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I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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There's a game called Checkout where there's grocery items and it's how much you think the manufacturer's suggested retail price is and we add up…
— Drew Carey
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When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured.
— Anton Chekhov
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While awaiting sentencing, I decided to give stand-up comedy a shot. The judge had suggested I get my act together, and I took him seriously.
— Tim Allen
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Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left…
— Charlotte Bronte
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In 1945 J.A. Ratcliffe ... suggested that I [join his group at Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge] to start an investigation of the radio emission from the…
— Martin Ryle
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Even if no command to pray had existed, our very weakness would have suggested it.
— Francois Fenelon
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I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing…
— Ronald Reagan
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I had one simple idea about telling friends about arts and technology events. People in the community suggested everything else to us, and that's our…
— Craig Newmark
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Since the 1960s, we have seen the failure of the melting pot ideology. This ideology suggested that different historical, cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds could be…
— Edward Said
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The superiority of the distant over the present is only due to the mass and variety of the pleasures that can be suggested, compared with…
— George Santayana
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Freedom is but the possibility of a various and indefinite activity; while government, or the exercise of dominion, is a single, yet real activity. The…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which…
— George Washington
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Your rat tail is all the fashion now. I prefer a bushy plume, carried straight up. You are Siamese and your ancestors lived in trees.…
— Raymond Chandler
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I have observed that religious practice is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness itself. I have also suggested that, whether a…
— Dalai Lama
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I learned to knit in 2002, six months after my 5-year-old daughter, Grace, died suddenly from a virulent form of strep. I was unable to…
— Ann Hood
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Nothing remains static in war or military weapons, and it is consequently often dangerous to rely on courses suggested by apparent similarities in the past.
— Ernest King
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The noble Lord, Lord Harrison, said, 'Fox hunting is cruel and I therefore want it banned.' He went on to discuss the option of controlling…
— David Verney, 21st Baron Willoughby de Broke
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Time is in itself [not] a difficulty, but a time-rate, assumed on very insufficient grounds, is used as a master-key, whether or not it fits,…
— Joseph Prestwich
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