Wild Quotes
2102 quotes by 1430 authors
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Eternal punishment must be eternal cruelty, and I do not see how any man, unless he has the brain of an idiot, or the heart…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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It is the triumph of civilization that at last communities have obtained such a mastery over natural laws that they drive and control them. The…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher.
— Michael Eisner
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We simply need that wild country available to us... For it can be a means of reassuring ourselves of our sanity as creatures, a part…
— Wallace Stegner
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When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems.
— Charles Bukowski
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Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
— Ben Jonson
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Because of her, he had learned to look for the birds - the darting flight of wild canaries (yellow sun on yellow wings), the chesty…
— Terry Kay
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The northern ocean is beautiful, ... and beautiful the delicate intricacy of the snowflake before it melts and perishes, but such beauties are as nothing…
— John Lighton Synge
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It is easier to tone down a wild idea than to think up a new one.
— Alex Faickney Osborn
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In the first six to twelve months of a war with the United States and Great Britain I will run wild and win victory upon…
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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At no point did the [Burns] committee conclude, or even attempt to conclude, an assessment of cruelty. Yet many bodies have erroneously quoted the Burns…
— Lawson Soulsby, Baron Soulsby of Swaffham Prior
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The life of a wild animal always has a tragic end.
— Ernest Thompson Seton
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I walk without flinching through the burning cathedral of the summer. My bank of wild grass is majestic and full of music. It is a…
— Violette Leduc
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In August, the large masses of berries, which, when in flower, had attracted many wild bees, gradually assumed their bright velvety crimson hue, and by…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I don't know what the big issue is about a kiss with Neve Campbell in Wild Things. It's a role, and I think a bigger…
— Denise Richards
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I love her and she loves me, and we hate each other with a wild hatred born of love.
— August Strindberg
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Don't we all die someday and someday comes all too soon? What will you do with your own wild, glorious chance at this thing we…
— Mary Oliver
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Elvis couldn't leave the hotel except under heavy guard. It was incredible how they went wild over him.
— Minnie Pearl
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Once cats were all wild, but afterward they retired to houses.
— Edward Topsell
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As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once…
— Otto Hermann Kahn
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