"Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold……" — Richard Adams
"Dangerous thing, a name. Someone might catch hold of you by it, mightn't they?"
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28 Quotes by Richard Adams
Richard Adams has 28 quotes on this site.
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All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill…
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You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a…
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Like the pain of a bad wound, the effect of a deep shock takes some while to be felt. When…
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There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one…
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At that moment, in the sunset on Watership Down, there was offered to General Woundwort the opportunity to show whether…
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To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us…
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Rabbits live close to death and when death comes closer than usual, thinking about survival leaves little room for anything…
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Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.
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We all have to meet our match sometime or other.
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I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who…
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Bluebell had been saying that he knew the men hated us for raiding their crops and gardens, and Toadflax answered,…
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The Threarah doesn't like anything he hasn't thought of for himself.
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More Catch Quotes
This quote is filed under Catch Quotes,
one of 2,066 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'.
— Frank Abagnale
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Basketball is like war in that offensive weapons are developed first, and it always takes a while for the defense…
— Red Auerbach
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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you…
— Pearl Bailey
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The catch phrase for the day is 'Do an act of kindness. Help one person smile.'
— Harvey Ball
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Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.
— Dave Barry
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Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the…
— Dave Barry
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You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they are going to catch you in next.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.
— Ambrose Bierce
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My theory on housework is, if the item doesn't multiply, smell, catch fire, or block the refrigerator door, let it…
— Erma Bombeck
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I just like to catch fish, I don't care if it weighs half a pound or 10 pounds. But I…
— Terry Bradshaw
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