Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
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When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
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Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.
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Sometimes love is stronger than a man's convictions.
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Some people thought I'd be on the PGA Tour, that I'd win tournaments, play in majors, contend in majors, win majors. I thought they were crazy.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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The goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who had brutalized them for 400 years.
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To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once in one single motion, in one single heave, one single cry. For we correct the errors of the past and chart a new course for the future, based on the experience of the present.
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But generally I am fine with a capital F; probably in extraordinary shape for a man of my age.
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What Alexander Graham Bell thought up occupied less space than a flower vase. Now it's so small that I have to search all my pockets to discover I've received a spam text.
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I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really.
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I thought everybody else was doing much better than I was.
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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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I'm a professional fighter and like most professional fighters I have had difficulties with my hands in the past.
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The ancestor of every action is a thought.
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If you want to see the true measure of a man, watch how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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I am a man who is noble. I have a good heart, but at the same time, I'm a little malicioso. There's no way of hiding that side.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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Somebody has to look out for and protect our kids, and I feel blessed to be a blessing to someone else.
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Before I came to England, my favorite authors were P. G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. I used to devour both.
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The difference that a drama group or a cinema club can make to a small village or a town. It opens people up to ideas, potential about themselves that really, in a way, education often fails to. It's a way of drawing a community together.
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Tis true that tho' People can transcend their Characters in Times of Tranquillity, they can ne'er do so in Times of Tumult.
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Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.
