Letters Quotes - Page 39

• He who receives a great many letters demanding answer, sees himself as if engaged in a hopeless struggle of one man against the rest of the world.

  Anna Brackett

  Struggle, Men, Answers

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• Now I know that that is just the phenomena of eating this way. Most all of my letters say I hit a plateau and then one morning I woke up and the melt had happened.

  Suzanne Somers

  Morning, Ice Cream, Way

  Interview with Cheri Sicard, fabulousfoods.com. August 06, 2007.

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• Over the last couple of years I have gotten an average of 2,000 letters a week from fans.

  Davy Jones

  Couple, Average, Years

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• Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Unexpected, Feedback

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• We were very kindly received by the English merchants to whom my companion had letters, and we set ourselves to learn what was the real state of things in Mexico.

  Edward Burnett Tylor

  Real, Mexico, States

  Edward Burnett Tylor (1861). “Anahuac; Or, Mexico and the Mexicans: Ancient and Modern”, p.19

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• Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, World, Temples

  "On Sir William Temple" by Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1838.

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• When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.

  Maya Lin

  Chinese, Littles, China

  "Presidential Medal of Freedom". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 16, 2000.

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• It was my study of the two Corinthian letters that first caused me to concentrate my attention more directly on the relation of the apostle Paul to the older apostles.

  Ferdinand Christian Baur

  Two, Attention, Firsts

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• And when the war broke out, its real horrors, its real dangers, its menace of real death were a blessing compared with the inhuman reign of the lie, and they brought relief because they broke the spell of the dead letter.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Real, War

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• X, n. In our alphabet being a needless letter has an added invincibility to the attacks of the spelling reformers, and like them, will doubtless last as long as the language.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Lasts, Alphabet

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.137, Courier Corporation

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• I've had songs written during the Falklands war, and during the first Gulf war I got letters from soldiers saying they were listening to these songs, like Island of no return.

  Billy Bragg

  Song, War, Islands

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• R.I.P. A careless abbreviation of "requiescat in pace", attesting to indolent goodwill to the dead. According to the learned Dr. Drigge, however, the letters originally meant nothing more than "reductus in pulvis".

  Ambrose Bierce

  Learning, Drs, Pace

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.783, Library of America

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• I plan to rearrange the alphabetical order because i think it has a very big error on the parts of the sequence of some letters. For example, I have just discovered that U and I should be together.

  Patricia Barry

  Cheesy Love, Thinking, Errors

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• Nights in white satin never reaching the end
  Letters I've written never meaning to send
  Beauty I'd always missed with these eyes before
  Just what the truth is I can't say any more
  Cause I love you
  Yes I love you
  Oh how I love you

  Justin Hayward

  Song, Love You, Eye

  Song: Nights In White Satin

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• I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.

  Bobby Vinton

  Summer, Goodbye, Lonely

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• Sportsmanship is the ethical and moral dimension of sports. It is demonstrated by a number of attributes and attitudes such as fair play, respect for the rules and traditions of the sport and various traits of good character including integrity (abiding by the letter and spirit of the rules and concepts of honor); demonstrated respect for others including teammates, opponents, officials and spectators; accountability, self-control, and graciousness in victory and defeat.

  Michael Josephson

  Sports, Respect, Attitude

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• Country music is a form letter. You fi ll in the blanks. You move from one broken heart to the next one and from this marriage to that divorce, from a beating here to a beating there.

  Ben Mink

  Country, Art, Moving

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• A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

  Robert M. Hutchins

  Writing, Learning, Winning

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• The mystery of writing advertisements consists mainly in saying in a few plain words exactly what it is desired to say, precisely as it would be written in a letter or told to an acquaintance.

  George P. Rowell

  Writing, Would Be, Advertising

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• Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters "twelve plus one" rearrange to give you "eleven plus two."

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Two, Giving, Mind Blowing

  Twitter post from Dec 7, 2011

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• The letters don't get their true delight, when done in haste & discomfort, nor merely done with diligence & pain, but first when they are created with love and passion.

  Giambattista Bodoni

  Love, Pain, Passion

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• Each typeface is a piece of history, like a chip in a mosaic that depicts the development of human communication. Each typeface is also a visual record of the person who created it - his skill as a designer, his philosophy as an artist, his feeling for... the details of each letter and the resulting impressions of an alphabet or a text line.

  Will Burtin

  Philosophy, Communication, Artist

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• When a type design is good it is not because each individual letter of the alphabet is perfect in form, but because there is a feeling of harmony and unbroken rhythm that runs through the whole design, each letter kin to every other and to all.

  Frederic Goudy

  Running, Perfect, Design

  Frederic William Goudy (1940). “Typologia: Studies in Type Design & Type Making, with Comments on the Invention of Typography, the First Types, Legibility, and Fine Printing”, p.43, Univ of California Press

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• That's the way to come to the Word of God. Read it as though it were His love letter to you.

  Howard G. Hendricks

  His Love, Way, Study

  Howard G. Hendricks, William D. Hendricks (2007). “Living By the Book: The Art and Science of Reading the Bible”, p.49, Moody Publishers

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• Should I marry W? Not if she won't tell me the other letters in her name. And what about her career? How can I ask a woman of her beauty to give up the Roller Derby? Decisions...

  Woody Allen

  Marriage, Giving Up, Names

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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