Register Quotes

• I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash register.

  Mike Tyson

  Sports, Believe, Cash

  "Tyson unplugged: On media, fans and his reputation". www.espn.com. May 5, 2002.

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• Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

  Joey Bishop

  Money, Thinking, Gas Stations

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• Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Life, Catholic, Deeds

  Venerable Fulton J. Sheen, Aeterna Press (1936). “The Moral Universe”, p.52, Aeterna Press

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• History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

  Edward Gibbon

  War, History, Tourism

  'The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' (1776-88) ch. 3.

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• Once we have learned to read, meaning of words can somehow register without consciousness.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Book, Reading, Consciousness

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• My decision to register women confirms what is already obvious throughout our society-that women are now providing all types of skills in every profession. The military should be no exception.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Patriotic, Skills

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

  Voltaire

  History, Crime, Misfortunes

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• If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

  Stephen King

  Responsibility, Gun, Car

  "CNN Debate: What Fonda, Cuban, Nye, Stone, Jillette and Patterson want to ask". www.cnn.com. September 16, 2015.

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• The Register of Knowledge of Fact is called History .

  Thomas Hobbes

  Facts

  Thomas Hobbes (2016). “The Essential Leviathan: A Modernized Edition”, p.46, Hackett Publishing

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• When God makes a beautiful woman, the devil opens a new register.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Beautiful, Women, Devil

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2696, Delphi Classics

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• If you're a large corporation, you can afford to pay the money to register patents, but if you're an individual like me, you can't.

  Larry Wall

  Money, Patents, Pay

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• Our brains are too slow to register that every concrete object is winking in and out of existence at the quantum level thousands of times per second.

  Deepak Chopra

  Brain, Levels, Quantum

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• We are deeply concerned about the situation in Russia with regards to human rights. There are several examples of this situation, such as the new law requiring NGOs to register as "foreign agents", the law banning homosexual "propaganda", problems with the rule of law and arbitrary judicial processes, and court rulings against the opposition.

  Cecilia Malmstrom

  Law, Russia, Rights

  "Situation in Russia". Personal blog at the European Commission website, ec.europa.eu. January 17, 2014.

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• Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.

  Fay Weldon

  Practice, Mind, Affirmation

  "It's Do-able!: Power to Unleash Your Dream". Book by Canaan Mashonganyika, 2013.

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• I don't write just to be clever. But sometimes I do. And if you don't have an understanding of the language, then the way in which it's bent doesn't actually register. It's the old you-gotta-paint-like-them-before-you-can-paint-like-you thing.

  Joss Whedon

  Clever, Writing, Understanding

  "Joss Whedon on Comic Books, Abusing Language and the Joys of Genre". Interview with Adam Rogers, www.wired.com. May 3, 2012.

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• Mr. Moony presents his compliments to Professor Snape, and begs him to keep his abnormally large nose out of other people's business. Mr. Prongs agrees with Mr. Moony, and would like to add that Professor Snape is an ugly git. Mr. Padfoot would like to register his astonishment that an idiot like that ever became a professor. Mr. Wormtail bids Professor Snape good day, and advises him to wash his hair, the slimeball.

  J. K. Rowling

  Humor, Good Day, Hair

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• What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps not accurately.

  John Steinbeck

  Gauges, Mass, Frightening

  John Steinbeck (2008). “The Winter of Our Discontent”, p.90, Penguin

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• I would get my student loans, get money, register and never really go. It was a system I thought would somehow pan out.

  Ray Romano

  Students, Get Money, Loan

  Interview with Joel Stein, content.time.com. June 06, 1999.

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• I got involved because I wanted to help inspire more people to get off their butts and register and vote - not just in this election, but in every other election from now on, you know?

  Jello Biafra

  People, Inspire, Helping

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• Register is very important. Music sounds best in a certain register.

  Steve Lacy

  Important, Sound, Certain

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• The first issue of The Register was printed in London, and gave a glowing account of the province that was to be - its climate, its resources, the sound principles on which it was founded.

  Catherine Helen Spence

  Glowing, Issues, Sound

  Catherine Helen Spence “An Autobiography”, Library of Alexandria

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• Again, I find it difficult to be taken care of and rarely acknowledge it, and every act he does registers, but I also just need to verbally acknowledge him and hug him.

  Patricia Heaton

  Taken, Acknowledge Him, Hug

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• I don't know any celebrated people that register in a big way who aren't unique.

  Claire Danes

  Unique, People, Way

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• When Gordon the Brown, in London in 1997, commissioned a great inquisition or survey of his new realm, the result was the so-called national asset register (NAR), which was immediately dubbed by the boomers of the UK Treasury "the modern Domesday Book".

  James Buchan

  Book, London, Modern

  "Judgment Day... again" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. August 6, 2001.

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• The whole value of science consists in the power which it confers upon us of applying to one object the knowledge acquired from like objects; and it is only so far, therefore, as we can discover and register resemblances that we can turn our observations to account.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Knowledge, Science, Observation

  William Stanley Jevons (1874). “The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method”, p.1

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