Utterly Quotes
850 quotes by 690 authors
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Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to…
— Scott Anderson
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We throw all our attention on the utterly idle question whether A has done as well as B, when the only question is whether A…
— William Graham Sumner
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The duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of…
— Joseph Story
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Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It never ceases to amaze me that in times of amazing human suffering somebody says something that can be so utterly stupid
— Robert Gibbs
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A man's own dinner is to himself so important that he cannot bring himself to believe that it is a matter utterly indifferent to anyone…
— Anthony Trollope
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Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American
— Ronald Reagan
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In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is…
— Tom Hooper
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The ideal tyranny is that which is ignorantly self-administered by its victims. The most perfect slaves are, therefore, those which blissfully and unawaredly enslave themselves.…
— Donald James
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Run for your lives-the computers are invading. Awesomely powerful computers tackling ever more important tasks with awkward, old-fashioned interfaces. As these machines leak into every…
— Alan Cooper
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What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him…
— Anne Rice
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It is horrible, yet fascinating, this struggle between a set purpose and an utterly exhausted frame.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I can only guess that it made the world he went back to...strangely without meaning. Though he lived in it, though he even enjoyed it,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do ... if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but…
— Vincent of Lerins
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Any innovation in matters of faith is extremely pernicious and utterly damnable!
— John Eudes
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Living like that utterly convinced me of the extreme limitations of language. I was just a chlld then,so I have only an intuitive understanding of…
— Banana Yoshimoto
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The true scientific understanding of the nature of existence is so utterly fascinating; how could you not want people to share it? Carl Sagan, I…
— Richard Dawkins
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It is like what we imagine knowledge to be: dark, salt, clear, moving, utterly free.
— Elizabeth Bishop
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Death is utterly acceptable to consciousness and life.
— Adi Da
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That came from my mother. She was the biggest influence on my life. I remember once refusing to get on a bus with her because…
— Tony Wilson
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