Odd Quotes - Page 11

• It's an odd thing about this universe that, though we all disagree with each other, we are all of us always in the right.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Equality, Odd Things, Disagree

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• I'm the world's original gradualist. I just think ninety-odd years is gradual enough.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Thinking, Years, World

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• God made all the animals in a single day; he could have swept them all away in the flood and re-created them in one day when they were again needed. Therefore it was an odd idea to save specimens of them for eleven months in the ark, whilst aware that eight persons could not feed or water them by any human possibility. If they were to be preserved by miracle, the ark was not necessary - to let them swim would have answered the purpose and been more indubitably miraculous.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Eight, Ideas

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• I never expected to be in the papers. I personally never expected to be in the papers. The height of my ambition for these books was, well frankly, to get reviewed. A lot of children's books don't even get reviewed.. forget good review, bad review. Personally, no, I never expected to be in the papers so it's an odd experience when it happens to you .

  J. K. Rowling

  Success, Children, Book

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• Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

  Ezra Pound

  Kings, Men, Garden

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• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

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• It's odd that the word 'atheist' even exist. I don't play golf, is there a word for non-golf players ?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Atheist, Golf, Player

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• I had this odd sibling rivalry with America.

  Patti Davis

  Brother, Sibling, America

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• About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Views

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.681, Broadview Press

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• Science lives only in quiet places, and with odd people, mostly poor.

  John Ruskin

  Science, People, Quiet

  John Ruskin (1871). “Fors Clavigera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain. Index”, p.37

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• It is odd that neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point. At what point sin begins is a matter as to which casuists differ. One eminently orthodox Catholic divine laid it down that a confessor may fondle a nun's breasts, provided he does it without evil intent. But I doubt whether modern authorities would agree with him on this point.

  Bertrand Russell

  Evil, Catholic, Doubt

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.77, Routledge

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• I didn't spend a whole lot of time here, but I had the seven best years of my career in this city and having an attachment here 20-some odd years later is pretty special to me.

  Paul Coffey

  Attachment, Years, Cities

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• Odd arrangements and funny solutions are the proof of evolution - paths that a sensible God would never tread but that a natural process, constrained by history, follows perforce.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Religion, Atheism, Path

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• Some of my relatives held on to imagined memories the way homeless people hold onto lottery tickets. Nostalgia was their crack cocaine, if you will, and my childhood was littered with the consequences of their addiction : unserviceable debts, squabbles over inheritances, the odd alcoholic or suicide.

  Mohsin Hamid

  Suicide, Memories, People

  Mohsin Hamid (2007). “The Reluctant Fundamentalist”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need to do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu, Julius Caesar, Einhard, Niccolò Machiavelli, Carl von Clausewitz (2016). “Strategy Six Pack”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• I was talking to a Zen master the other day and he said, "You shall be my disciple."I looked at him and said, "Who was Buddha's teacher?" He looked at me in a very odd way for a moment and then he burst into laughter and handed me a piece of clover.

  Alan Watts

  Spiritual, Teacher, Laughter

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• When some portion of the biosphere is rather unpopular with the human race-a crocodile, a dandelion, a stony valley, a snowstorm, an odd-shaped flint-there are three sorts of human being who are particularly likely still to see point in it and befriend it. They are poets, scientists and children. Inside each of us, I suggest, representatives of all these groups can be found.

  Mary Midgley

  Children, Science, Race

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• I missed her then but it was an odd sort of missing because by then, I knew the meaning of forever.

  Alice Sebold

  Missing Someone, Forever, Missing

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• You shall know the truth, and it will make you odd.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Funny, Truth, Humorous

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• He named me. He liked the sound of it. And I said, well, all right. I felt a little odd about it. I don't understand all that name changing business anyway... No, he felt that Lauren Bacall was better sounding than Betty Bacall. He had a vision of his own. He was a svengali. He wanted to mold me. He wanted to control me. And he did until Mr. Bogart got involved.

  Lauren Bacall

  Memorable, Names, Svengali

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• God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to hide, but is unsuccessful at hiding; therefore, somehow I succeed.

  David Foster Wallace

  Writing, Want, Way

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• It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Nature, Saint, Should

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• John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

  Paul Cornell

  Thinking, Might, Too Much

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• I do believe that his given name is something odd. Peregrine, Penrose- Piers, that's it." "He sounds like a dock." Lord Sundron put in. "Mrs. Hutchins called me a light frigate this morning," Linnet said "a dock might be just the thing for me.

  Eloisa James

  Morning, Believe, Light

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• Am I odd?Is there something wrong with me,like Mrs.Tifton Said?" Skye knelt down on the wet grass and looked straight into Batty's eyes. "No you stupid idiot,there's nothing wrong. with you.

  Jeanne Birdsall

  Stupid, Eye, Idiot

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