"Not only had he lost the only girl……" — Tom Holt
"Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant."
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20 Quotes by Tom Holt
Tom Holt has 20 quotes on this site.
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Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.
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It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a…
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There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.
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At any given time, ninety-nine-point-nine-five per cent of the human race are a confounded nuisance
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Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible…
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Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of
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I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year
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New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has…
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I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either
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The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet
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Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but…
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Lawyers are predators in grey worsted
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More Civil Quotes
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
— Hannah Arendt
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Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you…
— Margaret Atwood
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My first jobs were all civil service. At 14, I worked for the Canadian National Railways. At 16, I worked…
— Dan Aykroyd
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The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government…
— John Quincy Adams
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Our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an…
— Samuel Adams
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Let me go over this again on the reclaiming the civil rights movement. People of faith that believe that you…
— Glenn Beck
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A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Most liberals think of civil liberties as their Achilles heel. It isn't.
— Joe Biden
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During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.
— Joe Biden
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In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.
— Tony Blair
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