Utter Quotes
526 quotes by 447 authors
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There's a wonderful saying that's dead wrong. 'Why did you climb the mountain?' 'I climbed the mountain because it was there.' That's utter nonsense...You climbed…
— Larry Ellison
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The full horror of what has happened in the United States earlier today is now becoming clearer. It is hard even to contemplate the utter…
— Tony Blair
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The defect in wisdom and taste which exists among the majority of dancers is due to the bad education which they generally receive. They apply…
— Jean-Georges Noverre
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He moves not through distance, but through the ranges of satisfaction that come from hauling himself up into the air with complete and utter control;…
— Richard Bach
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As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many…
— Nelson Mandela
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A world revolution to a higher social order, a world order, or utter downfall lies before us all.
— H.G. Wells
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If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed…
— John Pilger
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So, dear friend, put fear out of your heart. This nation will survive, this state will prosper, the orderly business of life will go forward…
— William Allen White
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Whereas, Slavery, throughout its entire existence in the United States is none other than a most barbarous, unprovoked, and unjustifiable War of one portion of…
— John Brown
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Anyone who does not understand the utter cynicism of politics does not understand politics.
— Thomas Sowell
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What a pity flowers can utter no sound!-A singing rose, a whispering violet, a murmuring honeysuckle ... oh, what a rare and exquisite miracle would…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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When I write, I don't know what is going to emerge. I begin in a condition of complete unknowing, an utter nakedness of concept or…
— Jane Hirshfield
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In my opinion, the trombone is the true head of the family of wind instruments, which I have named the 'epic' one. It possesses nobility…
— Hector Berlioz
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The artist must yield himself to his own inspiration... I should compose with utter confidence a subject that set my musical blood going, even though…
— Giuseppe Verdi
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We can either passively continue on the road to utter domestication and destruction or turn in the direction of joyful upheaval, passionate and feral embrace…
— John Zerzan
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'Totally mad,' he said, 'utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.'
— Douglas Adams
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A peaceful worldIs an immediate, utter and absoluteNecessity.
— Sri Chinmoy
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The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.
— Jean-Baptiste Say
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On the eve of my laying down office, with the inauguration of the Republic, I should like to tender my greetings and best wishes to…
— C. Rajagopalachari
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Metaphor lives a secret life all around us. We utter about six metaphors a minute. Metaphorical thinking is essential to how we understand ourselves and…
— James Geary
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