Suggesting Quotes - Page 9

• Suggesting I hate people with religion because I hate religion is like suggesting I hate people with cancer because I hate cancer.

  Ricky Gervais

  Hate, Cancer, People

  FaceBook post by Ricky Gervais from Jul 06, 2014

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• I hope nobody is seriously suggesting that we get our morals from scripture because if we did we'd be stoning people for working on the Sabbath or switching on a light on the Sabbath. So the point is that you can find good bits of the Bible but you have to cherry-pick, you have reject the nasty bits and pick the nice bits.

  Richard Dawkins

  Nice, Light, People

  "Richard Dawkins at the Sydney Writers' Festival". Interview with Robyn Williams, www.abc.net.au. September 8, 2007.

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• Verse is a mechanism by which we can create interpretative illusions suggesting profoundities of response and understanding which far exceed the engagement or research of the writer.

  John Constable

  Art, Poetry, Understanding

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• I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Atheism, Facts, Lord

  Abraham Lincoln (1894). “The Table Talk of Abraham Lincoln”

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• The first thing you do is sit down with your wife and say something like this, Honey, I've made a terrible mistake. I've given you my role. I gave up leading this family. ... I'm not suggesting that you ask for your role back, I'm urging you to take it back ... Be sensitive. Listen. Treat the lady gently and lovingly. But lead!

  Tony Evans

  Mistake, Wife, Scary

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• I'm certainly not suggesting legalization of polyamory. But it's also unfairly judgmental of you to compare such relationships to the criminal acts of bestiality or child sexual abuse.

  Emily Yoffe

  Children, Abuse, Criminals

  "This Holiday Ain't Big Enough for the Both of Us". Interview with Emily Yoffe, www.slate.com. May 13, 2013.

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• Architecture is about aging well, about precision and authenticity. There is much more to the success of a building than what you can see. Im not suggesting that gestural architecture is always superficial, but solid reasoning has its place.

  Annabelle Selldorf

  Architecture, Aging, Authenticity

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• I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

  Robert Six

  Work, Simple, Ideas

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• When one wakes up in the morning, one's whole life is neatly laid out, consistent with the past, to the degree that we even (apparently) remember the same language spoken the day before, suggesting previous experience had simply entered a dormant state.

  James R. Swartz

  Dream, Morning, Past

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• Parents can offer their help by suggesting and locating resources likely to be unfamiliar to children, such as people, books, andmaterials that can be useful.

  Dorothy H Cohen

  Children, Book, People

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• We cannot forbear suggesting one practical result which it appears to us must be greatly facilitated by the independent manner in which the engine orders and combines its operations: we allude to the attainment of those combinations into which imaginary quantities enter.

  Ada Lovelace

  Independent, Order, Results

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• The first cut I do is usually between five and 10 minutes shorter then the cut that we release. Anything I think isn't working or might not work, I don't even put it in the director's cut. And usually it's the studio suggesting I put stuff back in, as opposed to studios saying, "You got to lose 40 minutes," they are always saying, "You've got to gain five minutes."

  Barry Sonnenfeld

  Cutting, Thinking, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always more interesting when you're doing things with someone you like because you're much more open to suggesting things. Also, it's fun. It's like if you're sitting with your mates and you're bantering, or you're winding each other up and insulting each other in a playful way, but having fun with it.

  Joseph Morgan

  Fun, Interesting, Insulting

  Source: collider.com

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• I think that relations between professors and grad students can be messy and not entirely boundable. Part of the problem is that those boundaries become eroticized. I don't think people are quite so managerial with their sexuality. By suggesting that sex can be successfully regulated, we're imposing stupidity on the issue.

  Laura Kipnis

  Sex, Thinking, Issues

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• To understand something changing form as a destructive act is a very modern, Western gut reaction to things, and I get it. But what I'm suggesting is nothing radical, this notion of things constantly changing, and that the change is not inherently destructive.

  Dario Robleto

  Things Change, Modern, Reactions

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not superwoman. It's impossible to do everything 100 percent all of the time. And suggesting that women should be able to do it only puts more pressure on them.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Able, Pressure, Impossible

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

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• When we unravel the theological tomes of the ages, the makeup of God becomes quite clear.  God is a human being without human limitations who is read into the heavens.  We disguised this process by suggesting that the reason God was so much like a human being was that the human beings were in fact created in God's image.  However, we now recognize that if was the other way around.  The God of theism came into being as a human creation.  As such, this God, too, was mortal and is now dying.

  John Shelby Spong

  Makeup, Heaven, Dying

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• I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Religious, Writing, Games

  Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “Hind Swaraj”, p.12, Rajpal & Sons

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• I am not elevating women to sainthood, nor am I suggesting that all women share the same views, or that all women are good and all men bad.

  Bella Abzug

  Men, Views, Sainthood

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• My single biggest financial concern is the loss of the dollar as the reserve currency. I can't imagine anything more disastrous to our country. . .you're already seeing things in the markets that are suggesting that confidence in the dollar is waning. . .I think you could see a 25% reduction in the standard of living in this country if the U.S. dollar was no longer the world's reserve currency. That's how valuable it is.

  Sam Zell

  Country, Loss, Thinking

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• If it annoys you when team members ask about their next promotion or talk about other job opportunities in the industry, you have motivational problems in the making. You need to build a habit of proactively seeking employee interests and suggesting follow-up steps.

  Martin Zwilling

  Jobs, Team, Opportunity

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• A Day never passes without some ardent reformer or group of reformers suggesting some new government intervention, some new statist scheme to fill some alleged 'need' or relieve some alleged distress.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Government, Groups, Needs

  Henry Hazlitt (1971). “Man Vs. the Welfare State”, p.204, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• There are directors, and I think this is true of all directors, it would be true if I was a director - If the actor didn't want to do what I was suggesting, I would let him do it his way, and then I would say to him, "Just give me one where you do what the director wants", and that, of course, is the take that's used.

  Ian Mckellen

  Thinking, Giving, Directors

  Source: collider.com

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• It seems like cloud cuckoo land. If anyone is suggesting that I would go to Parliament and suggest the abolition of the Pound Sterling - no! We have made it quite clear that we will not have a single currency imposed upon us.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Clouds, Land, Cuckoos

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• I think you are looking at sexuality and not attributes, and I think it's odd because the conservative mantra is a meritocracy. And I think what you're suggesting is the fact that being gay parents makes you not as good as others. And I would suggest that a loving, gay family with a financially secure background beats the hell out of Britney Spears and Kevin Federline any day of the week.

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Thinking, Parent

  "Mike Huckabee, Part 2". "The Daily Show" official website, December 09, 2008.

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