Thoroughly Quotes
588 Thoroughly quotes by 475 unique authors
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The love of dress is very marked in this attractive animal; he is proud of the lustre of his coat, and cannot endure that a…
— Champfleury
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To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
— Unknown Author
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Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power.
— Michel Foucault
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To every bushel of the powdered cement add one bushel of sand, mix them together and pass them through a sieve, then add a sufficient…
— Canvass White
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If it were customary to send daughters to school like sons, and if they were then taught the natural sciences, they would learn as thoroughly…
— Christine de Pizan
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In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness…
— Ron Clarke
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As time goes on, I get more and more convinced that the right method of investment is to put fairly large sums into enterprises which…
— John Maynard Keynes
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If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive…
— June Jordan
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Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in…
— Aldous Huxley
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It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing
— Oscar Wilde
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The Bible applied to the heart by the Holy Ghost is the chief means by which men are built up and established in the faith,…
— J C Ryle
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Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of…
— Satchel Paige
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A man who knows a subject thoroughly, a man so soaked in it that he eats it, sleeps it and dreams it- this man can…
— H. L. Mencken
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Endings of one rook and pawns are about the most common sort of endings arising on the chess board. Yet though they do occur so…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. What we do best or most…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day
— Angelo Pellegrini
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I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country…
— Emma Goldman
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She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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We as a people seem to be losing all sense of respect for ourselves and our fellow men, with the result that in a thoroughly…
— Unknown Author
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My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon…
— George Washington
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When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it. The two things that nearly all of us have thoroughly and really…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great…
— James Russell Lowell
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Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here’s a new writer who…
— James Patrick Kelly
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We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We feel an even…
— Unknown Author
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