Token Quotes
124 quotes by 113 authors
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Life begets life by its very nature. By the same token, inspired men inspire.
— Leonard Ravenhill
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A belief, however necessary it may be for the preservation of a species, has nothing to do with truth. The falseness of a judgment is…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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If travel has taught me nothing more, and it certainly has, it's this: you never know when some trifling incident, utterly without significance, may pitchfork…
— S. J. Perelman
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The poet's perfect expression is the token of a perfect experience; what he says in the best possible way he has felt in the best…
— John Drinkwater
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My looks haven't prevented me from playing prostitutes or people broken by life. But when they need a token blonde with big breasts, that's OK,…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy…
— Kate DiCamillo
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When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
— Diana Gabaldon
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I'm a pretty laid-back kind of guy. What I've always wanted to do is set up situations in our company where if people who worked…
— Jerry Greenfield
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The trouble is that right now I want to put as much work into football as I can. It's very important for me to get…
— Doug Flutie
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Well, I'm half Australian, half English and I live in London. That is the only reason I came upon this story. My Australian mother, Meredith…
— Tom Hooper
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It is not because food, clothes and property are inherently evil that Christians today must lower their standard of living. It is because others are…
— Ronald J. Sider
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The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It…
— Albert Pike
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Fear accomplishes much in love. The husband of the Middle Ages was loved by his wife for his very severity. The bride of William the…
— Jules Michelet
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Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which…
— Baldassare Castiglione
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Anytime you make a bet with the best of it, where the odds are in your favor, you have earned something on that bet, whether…
— David Sklansky
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It's a given that we exist in a world where we have to live in continuity every day; no one is immune to that, in…
— Neil Gaiman
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A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people…
— Russell Lynes
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I really had no great love for shoes. I was a working First Lady; I was always in canvas shoes. I did nurture the shoes…
— Imelda Marcos
Who Wrote These Token Quotes
113 authors contributed a total of 124 Token Quotes, led by these top contributors: