"Headlines twice the size of the events." — John Galsworthy
"Headlines twice the size of the events."
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John Galsworthy
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47 Quotes by John Galsworthy
John Galsworthy has 47 quotes on this site.
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We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none…
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Justice is a machine which, when someone has once given it the starting push, rolls on of itself.
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I am still under the impression that there is nothing alive quite so beautiful as a thoroughbred horse.
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We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its…
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It`s always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it`s going to hurt another person more than is…
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Memory heaps dead leaves on corpse-like deeds, from under which they do but vaguely offend the sense.
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The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.
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It's not life that counts but the fortitude you bring into it.
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Once admit that we have the right to inflict unnecessary suffering and you destroy the very basis of human society.
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By the cigars they smoke, and the composers they love, ye shall know the texture of men's souls.
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From behind a wooden crate we saw a long black-muzzled nose poking round at us. We took him out-soft, wobbly,…
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The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel,…
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More Events Quotes
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one of 3,166 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
— Hannah Arendt
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You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought…
— Marcus Aurelius
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There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn…
— Richard Bach
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Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to…
— Richard Bach
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do…
— Michelle Bachelet
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All pictures are unnatural. All pictures are sad because they're about dead people. Paintings you don't think of in a…
— David Bailey
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It's true that I don't rearrange that much in the fiction, but I feel if you change even one name…
— Nicholson Baker
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Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the…
— Russell Baker
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Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also…
— Javier Bardem
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Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly…
— Amelia Barr
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