Remarks Quotes

• He [John McCain] is a war hero because he was captured. I like people that weren`t captured.

  Donald Trump

  War, Hero, People

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• Happy is the man who can brush aside the offending remarks of another and go on his way.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Men, Offending, Goes On

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• If you feel irritated by the absurd remarks of two people whose conversation you happen to overhear, you should imagine that you are listening to a dialogue of two fools in a comedy.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Two, People, Listening

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer - Counsels and maxims (illustrated)”, p.65, Full Moon Publications

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• I made the remark that I don't avoid people in order to live quietly, but rather in order to be able to die quietly.

  Franz Kafka

  Order, People, Able

  Franz Kafka (1949). “The Diaries of Franz Kafka: 1914-1923. Tr. by Martin Greenberg, with the co-operation of Hannah Arendt”, Schocken

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• People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

  Frank Sinatra

  People, Luck, Important

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• I can't stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.

  Tennessee Williams

  Light, Rude, Naked

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• One often makes a remark and only later sees how true it is.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.24, University of Chicago Press

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• There are some remarks that are so stupid that to be even vaguely aware of them is the intellectual equivalent of living next door to Chernobyl.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Stupid, Doors, Intellectual

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• Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark.

  Bryce Courtenay

  Change, Earth Life, Chance

  Bryce Courtenay (1989). “The Power of One”, Random House LLC

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• Blessings be on this house," Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

  Terry Pratchett

  Blessing, People, House

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• She tried to allow herself only one biting remark an hour, and she had already overstepped her allowance.

  Anne Stuart

  Biting, Hours, Allowance

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• The First Amendment defends all forms of speech including hate speech, which is why groups like Ku Klux Klan are allowed to utter their poisonous remarks.

  Salman Rushdie

  Hate, Ku Klux Klan, Groups

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• A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth.

  Will Rogers

  Funny, Sarcastic, Hurt

  Will Rogers, James Smallwood, Steven K. Gragert (1982). “Will Rogers' Weekly Articles: The Hoover years, 1929-1931”

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• As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.

  Quintilian

  Father, Pregnancy, Parent

  Quintilian (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Quintilian (Illustrated)”, p.18, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

  Willa Cather

  Forgiveness, Fall, Dark

  Willa Cather (1938). “The novels and stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can't help it. It's the truth.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Art, Money, Business

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm just preparing my impromptu remarks.

  Winston Churchill

  Leadership, Hair, Planning

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  It has become almost a cliché to remark that nobody boasts of ignorance of literature, but it is socially acceptable to boast ignorance of science and proudly claim incompetence in mathematics.

  Richard Dawkins

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Science

  "The Richard Dimbleby Lecture: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder". Lecture, BBC1 Television, November 12, 1996.

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• I'm known for my slightly inappropriate remarks.

  Gilbert Gottfried

  Inappropriate, Known

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• Most remarks that are worth making are commonplace remarks. The things that makes them worth saying is that we really mean them.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Mean, Corny, Commonplace

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• Most people should be talking about how Floyd Mayweather is a great undefeated future Hall of Famer that's his own promoter and that works extremely hard to get to where he's at. Instead, all you hear is hate and jealous remarks from critics who criticize me and, you know, most of the time, the people that criticize me can't do what I can do.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Hate, Jealous, Talking

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A censor is an expert in cutting remarks. A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

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• I apologize for the insensitivity of my remarks with respect to the mayor or his family, however I think it is important to note that this decision involves potential risk to innocent people.

  John Shadegg

  Thinking, People, Decision

  "Shadegg Apologizes For Saying NYC Mayor's Daughter Could Get Kidnapped" by Rachel Slajda, "Talking Points Memo" (TalkingPointsMemo.com), November 17, 2009.

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• 'You didn't build that' will be Obama's political epitaph: With these remarks, Obama has come out of the closet as a most odious collectivist, who believes religiously that government predation is a condition for production. Or, put simply, that the parasite created the host.

  Ilana Mercer

  Believe, Government, Political

  "'You Didn't Build That': Obama's Political Epitaph". www.wnd.com. July 27, 2012.

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• How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.

  Willard Van Orman Quine

  Doctrine, Answers, Variables

  Willard Van Orman Quine, Roger F. Gibson (2004). “Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine”, p.189, Harvard University Press

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