"No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln…" — Jonathan Raban
"No president has come near to rivaling Lincoln as a writer."
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45 Quotes by Jonathan Raban
Jonathan Raban has 45 quotes on this site.
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I ain't sleeping. I'm just taking a good look at the insides of my eyelids.
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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted.
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In an underdeveloped country don't drink the water. In a developed country don't breathe the air.
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Books admitted me to their world open-handedly, as people for their most part, did not. The life I lived in…
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Spells of acute loneliness are an essential part of travel. Loneliness makes things happen.
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Travel. It was an intransitive verb. It didn't involve any destinations. It was going to the going's sake, to be…
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Seattle is this curious liberal island.
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Seattle is a liberal city, its politics not so much blue (in the American, not the British, sense) as deep…
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I loved the audacity of that American principle which says. When life gets tainted or goes stale, junk it! Leave…
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In the city one clings to nostalgic and unreal signs of community, takes forced refuge in codes, badges and coteries;…
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In rural areas the majority of the victims of violent crime know their assailants (indeed, are probably married to them);…
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The city has always been an embodiment of hope and a source of feeling guilt; a dream pursued, and found…
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More Come Near Quotes
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Lord, where shall I find you? Your place is lofty and secret. And where shall I not find you? The…
— Judah Halevi
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Consider now the Milky Way. Here also we see an innumerable dust, only the grains of this dust are no…
— Henri Poincare
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Turning someone away who wants to come near you, just because of your pride is also a form of mistake.
— Sung Hoon
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There were days when I would say, 'God, I can't be without Leo'. He was my rock. We were such…
— Kate Winslet
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Millions of hells of sinners cannot come near to exhaust infinite grace.
— Samuel Rutherford
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If you were to write down all the possible ways to motivate people to do better work, friendly praise would…
— Hannah Whitall Smith
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Come near to the holy men and women of the past and you will soon feel the heat of their…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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All things are already complete in us. There is no greater delight than to be conscious of right within us.…
— Mencius
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I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments…
— Robert Frost
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I think that first nights should come near the end of a play's run-as indeed, they often do.
— Peter Ustinov
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I was very offended as this damages my reputation as a Muslim and a headscarf-wearer, and my father to whom…
— Unknown Author
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If your knowledge teaches you not the value of things, and frees you not from the bondage to matter, you…
— Khalil Gibran
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