Mines Quotes - Page 30

• Then farewell, Horace; whom I hated so, Not for thy faults, but mine.

  Lord Byron

  Farewell, Faults, Hated

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.101, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'm still spending my working life trying to mine people's souls and now they're complimenting me in reviews on the amount of time I spend in the gym. On the definition of my triceps.

  Jason Isaacs

  People, Soul, Trying

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• I have called you by name, you are mine... you are precious in my sight.

  Isaiah

  Sight, Names, Mental Health

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• I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

  Henry Fairfield Osborn

  Character, Science, Pride

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• Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt.

  Mickey Spillane

  Book, Grain Of Salt, Looks

  Interview with Michael Carlson, "Crime Time", 2001.

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• The power to bring me out of solitude - or to push me back into it - had never belonged to another person. It was mine and only mine.

  Martha Beck

  Solitude, Individuality, Persons

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• Jah show every mon him hand, and Jah has show I mine.

  Bob Marley

  Hands, Shows

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• Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. When you pass through the waters I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you, when you walk through fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you.

  Isaiah

  Angel, Fire, Flames

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• I dreamed of myself in a dream, and told the dream, which was mine, as if it were another person's of whom I dreamed. Indeed what is life when thinking of the past, but dreaming of a dream dreamt by another who seems to be oneself?

  Stopford Brooke

  Dream, Past, Thinking

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• You know, a friend of mine asked me before I got here... it was when we were all shipping out. He asked me, 'Why are you going to fight somebody else's war? What, do y'all think you're heroes?' I didn't know what to say at the time, but if he asked me again, I'd say no. I'd say there's no way in hell. Nobody asks to be a hero. It just sometimes turns out that way.

  Black Hawk

  War, Hero, Fighting

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• We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

  James Thurber

  Wicked, Faults, Comedy

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• The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

  Robert Hughes

  Choices, Leader, Library

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• Mine is the night, with all her stars.

  Edward Young

  Stars, Night

  Edward Young (1768). “The Complaint: Or, Night-thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality: To which is Added, a Paraphrase on Part of the Book of Job..”, p.300

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• So if God should place me in serious perplexity, must He not give me much guidance; in places of great difficulty, much grace; in circumstances of great pressure and trial, much strength? No fear that HIs resources will prove unequal to the emergency! And His resources are mine, for He is mine, and is with me and dwells in me.

  Hudson Taylor

  Giving, Grace, Trials

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• Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things

  Francis Bacon

  Peace, Fighting, Cutting

  Francis Bacon, Robert Leslie Ellis, William Rawley (1861). “The philosophical works of Francis Bacon, with prefaces and notes by the late Robert Leslie Ellis, together with English translations of the principal Latin pieces”, p.372

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• St. Michaels Mount is a favourite place of mine; people will walk across to the Mount all day and assume they will be able to walk home. The spectacle of hundreds of people realising that the path they walked over on is disappearing under several feet of water is very amusing.

  John Dyer

  Home, Feet, People

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• I use a wide selection of colours. It is impossible to produce work like mine using only the primary colours as they only mix a certain range of colour.

  John Dyer

  Insomnia, Use, Impossible

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• My life is mine and I form it. Tell yourself this often. Create your own life now, using your beliefs as an artist uses color.

  Seth

  Artist, Color, Use

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• I've had to do all kinds of jobs to pay the rent. I've even worked in a Cornish tin mine.

  Peter Wright

  Jobs, Tin, Pay

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• One other hobby of mine has been playing the oboe but I have not kept this up after 1969.

  Kenneth G. Wilson

  Hobbies, Oboes, Has Beens

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• I depart, Whither I know not; but the hour's gone by When Albion's lessening shores could grieve or glad mine eye.

  Lord Byron

  Travel, Eye, Grieving

  Lord Byron (2015). “Childe Harold's Pilgrimage”, p.55, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I'm the most sampled and stolen. What's mine is mine, and what's yours is mine, too... I got a song about that... But I'm never gonna release it. Don't want a war with the rappers. If it wasn't good, they wouldn't steal it.

  James Brown

  Song, War, Rapper

  "Being James Brown," Rolling Stone Magazine, June 12, 2006.

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• You will never see'Altman's Great Film of the Seventies: The Director's Cut' because you have never seen a film of mine that wasn't the director's cut. I have never permitted it.

  Robert Altman

  Cutting, Directors, Film

  2004 In The Independent,14 May.

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• On from room to room I stray,Yet mine Host can ne'er espy,And I know not to this day,Whether guest or captive I.

  William Watson

  Guests, Rooms, Host

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• My wives will be mine in eternity.

  Joseph Fielding Smith

  Wife, Eternity, Polygamy

  Joseph Fielding Smith (1972). “Doctrines of Salvation: Sermons and Writings”

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