Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 9

• civilization is a transient sickness.

  Robinson Jeffers

  Civilization, Sickness, Illness

  Robinson Jeffers, Tim Hunt (1988). “The Collected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers: 1928-1938”, p.158, Stanford University Press

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• Be careful out there. There are things that go bump in the night. Actually, there are things that go 'Give me your wallet or I'll kill you' in the night.

  John Larroquette

  Night, Giving, Bumps

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• Some people don't get it when I'm being sarcastic.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Sarcastic, People, Being Sarcastic

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• It's so glamorous, you have to see it." (describing the $92 million Rock & Roll Hall of Fame)

  Aretha Franklin

  Rocks, Fame, Glamorous

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• The unlived life is not worth examining.

  Old Tom Morris

  Perception, Life Is, Examining

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• The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.

  George Harrison

  Mistake, Self, People

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• You are no better than you should be.

  Francis Beaumont

  Literature, Should, Garters

  Francis Beaumont (1718). “The Coxcomb. A Comedy, Etc”, p.39

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• Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder.

  Frederick William Faber

  Rocks, Talent, Buried

  Frederick William Faber (1866). “Notes on doctrinal and spiritual subjects”, p.343

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• But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Peace, Mean, Giving

  D. H. Lawrence, Warren Roberts, James T. Boulton, Elizabeth Mansfield (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.170, Cambridge University Press

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• From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

  Andre Gide

  Joy, Despair, Desire

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.65, Vintage

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• True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

  Andre Gide

  Eloquence

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• The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Book, Thinking, Ideas

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• We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Personality, Admire

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• We talk much more about individualism and liberty than our ancestors. But as so often happens, when anything becomes conscious, the consciousness is compensatory for absence in practice.

  John Dewey

  Practice, Liberty, Consciousness

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, James Gouinlock (2008). “John Dewey The Later Works, 1925-1953: 1925-1927: Essays, Reviews, Miscellany, and the Public and Its Problems”, p.160, SIU Press

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• The mind is seldom quickened to very vigorous operations but by pain, or the dread of pain. We do not disturb ourselves with the detection of fallacies which do us no harm.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Mind, Harm

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.373

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• On all the peaks lies peace.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Peace, Nature, Lying

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• Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Media, Journalism, Glory

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “Tread softly, for you tread on my jokes”

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• The Lord gives us friends to push us to our potential — and enemies to push us beyond it.

  Robert Breault

  Giving, Enemy, Lord

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• I identify more with people who ask each day for divine guidance than people equipped with a divine guidance system.

  Robert Breault

  Divine Guidance, People, Each Day

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• The mark of highest originality lies in the ability to develop a familiar idea so fruitfully that it would seem no one else would ever have discovered so much to be hidden in it.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Lying, Ideas, Originality

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• I took a look around the office. ... I walked out and closed the door behind me. I knew that I would not be back there again." (On leaving the Executive Office Building)

  Richard M. Nixon

  Doors, Office, Leaving

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• The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Funny Things, Stopping

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The journalistic vision sharpens to the point of maximum impact every event, every individual and social configuration; but the honing is uniform.

  George Steiner

  Impact, Media, Vision

  George Steiner (1991). “Real Presences”, p.27, University of Chicago Press

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