Dashiell Hammett Quotes
'A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.'Dashiell Hammett
Quotes to Explore
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
Rachel Bilson -
We can't continue with a justice of vengeance. Peace will require us to accept a certain degree of impunity; it's inevitable.
Ingrid Betancourt -
Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
Daniel Dennett -
Common Core results finally give families an accurate barometer of whether our kids are mastering the skills they need to succeed in a knowledge-based global economy, early enough that we can intervene.
Wendy Kopp -
I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
Gary Hamel -
When you are a successful business person, you are only as good as your team. No one can do every deal alone.
Magic Johnson
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I don't like attacking.
Barbara Bush -
Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
Laura Dern -
As Senator, I will always put the health and safety of New Hampshire's families first.
Maggie Hassan -
If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
Walter Kirn -
I have been acting since I was thirteen.
Caleb Landry Jones -
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
Saint Basil
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff -
Daring is not safe against daring men.
Ovid -
In terms of the mechanics of story, myth is an intriguing one because we didn't make myth up; myth is an imprinture of the human condition.
Baz Luhrmann -
Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
Baruch Spinoza -
War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi -
I don't want to be known for someone that's good-looking. I want to be known as someone who is one of the best midfielders. That's my thing.
Carli Lloyd
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I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.
John Malkovich -
A cultural thing that is funny to me is that every time I go out in D.C. after a show, all the nightclubs and restaurants are owned by Iranians and Afghans. It's funny to me how we lost our countries but we gained the nightlife.
Maz Jobrani -
Truth is not always injured by fiction.
Charlotte Lennox -
It's a terrible and tragic and counterproductive policy to avoid communicating with people who disagree with us.
Jimmy Carter -
She had little doubt that whatever happened to her on this drifting ship was of scant interest to a God who could allow her to reach this sorry state in the first place.
Tad Williams -
'A lot of fancier yarns come from people trying to tell the truth. It’s not easy once you’re out of the habit.'
Dashiell Hammett