Let Me Quotes - Page 22

• Let me know myself; let others guess at me.

  Joseph Hall

  Knows

  Joseph Hall (1837). “The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology”, p.75

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• O yellow eye,
  let me be sick with your heat,
  let me be feverish and frowning.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Sunshine, Yellow

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• Human relations, I mess them up, and they let me down.

  Juliana Hatfield

  Relation, Mess, Humans

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• Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

  Saint Augustine

  Jesus, Lying, Love You

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• Let me make it clear that I do not assert that a President and the Congress must on all points agree with each other at all times. Many times in history there has been complete disagreement between the two branches of the Government, and in these disagreements sometimes the Congress has won and sometimes the President has won. But during the Administration of the present President we have had neither agreement nor a clear-cut battle.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Cutting, Government, Agreement

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's campaign address to the Republican-for-Roosevelt League in New York City (November 3, 1932), as quoted in "The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1928-1932" (p. 857), 1938.

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• My father wouldn't let me take typing in childhood.

  Pat Conroy

  Father, Childhood, Typing

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• Every time you open your mouth you let men look into your mind.

  Bruce Barton

  Communication, Men, Mind

  Bruce Barton (1920). “It's a Good Old World: Being a Collection of Little Essays on Various Subjects of Human Interest”

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• I'd like to play passionate women, but no one will let me.

  Russell Crowe

  Play, Passionate, Passionate Woman

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My goal has always been to play golf, and play it well. In the end, that's what I am, a golfer. If my back lets me, I'm going to play my favorite places. If I hurt myself, that'll probably be it for a while.

  Fred Couples

  Hurt, Golf, Play

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• Everybody in our family studied a musical instrument. My father was really big on that. Somehow I only took a year or two of piano lessons and I convinced my father to let me take dancing lessons.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Father, Years, Two

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• My high school was nothing like West Beverly High, let me tell you. I grew up in Fredericktown, Ohio.

  Luke Perry

  School, Ohio, West

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• First move me, astonish me, break my heart, let me tremble, weep, stare, be enraged-only then regale my eyes.

  Denis Diderot

  Art, Moving, Eye

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• The world no longer lets me love, My hope and treasure are above.

  Anne Bradstreet

  Heaven, World, Treasure

  Anne Bradstreet (2012). “To My Husband and Other Poems”, p.21, Courier Corporation

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• Let me say this: bein a idiot is no box of chocolates.

  Winston Groom

  Chocolate, Contentment, Idiot

  Winston Groom (2002). “Forrest Gump”, p.1, Simon and Schuster

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• Let me get one thing straight; I'm not an authority on sex, I'm more of a fan. I think sex is nice; no family should be without it. Of course, there are other things that are just as important as sex, like uh . . . like uh . . . like . . . uh . . . well, I'll think of it later.

  George Burns

  Funny, Sex, Nice

  George Burns (1989). “How to live to be 100--or more: the ultimate diet, sex, and exercise book”, Plume

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• Pray to God: It's all right if you don't love me, but please let me love you!

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Love, Praying, Please

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• And let me adde, that he that throughly understands the nature of Ferments and Fermentations, shall probably be much better able than he that Ignores them, to give a fair account of divers Phænomena of severall diseases (as well Feavers and others) which will perhaps be never throughly understood, without an insight into the doctrine of Fermentation.

  Robert Boyle

  Giving, Doctrine, Disease

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• Tyndall, ... I must remain plain Michael Faraday to the last; and let me now tell you, that if accepted the honour which the Royal Society desires to confer upon me, I would not answer for the integrity of my intellect for a single year.

  Michael Faraday

  Integrity, Science, Years

  On being offered the Presidency of the Royal Society, in J. Tyndall 'Faraday as a Discoverer' (1868) 'Illustrations of Character'

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• The one true friend I thought I'd found, tonight the bottle let me down.

  Merle Haggard

  Friendship, True Friend, Bottles

  Song: Tonight, The Bottle Let Me Down

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• These precious illusions in my head did not let me down when I was defenseless, and parting with them is like parting with invisible best friends.

  Alanis Morissette

  Friendship, Illusion, Invisible

  Song: Precious Illusions, Album: Under Rug Swept, 2002

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• Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Friendship, Dream, Vision

  "Song: "Born to Run"". 1975.

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• I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.

  Milton Berle

  Christmas, Beautiful, Mother

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• Let me blow that up for you again.

  Colin Powell

  Blow, Politics, You Again

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• Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.

  Joan Didion

  Writing, Answers, Novel

  Joan Didion (1984). “Joan Didion: Essays & Conversations”

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• I would also argue that there is a good chance that an outline will help you stave off any onslaught of writer's block. Let me advise you right up front that I am not a big believer in writer's block. I think writer's block is God's way of telling you one of two things - that you failed to think your material through sufficiently before you started writing, or that you need a day or two off with your family and friends.

  Terry Brooks

  Block, Writing, Thinking

  Terry Brooks (2003). “Sometimes the Magic Works: Lessons from a Writing Life”, p.76, Del Rey

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