Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

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• The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.

  

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• As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.

  

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• I want to pursue a career in film.

  

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• The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.

  

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• In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

  

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• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  

  Venus Williams
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• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
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• Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

  

  Walt Whitman
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• I'll eat one cookie, not a whole box of cookies. But I'll still eat the one cookie... sometimes two, or even three. But not the whole box.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
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• Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

  

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• Persistence is to the character of man as carbon is to steel.

  

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• One of life's fundamental truths states, 'Ask and you shall receive.' As kids we get used to asking for things, but somehow we lose this ability in adulthood. We come up with all sorts of excuses and reasons to avoid any possibility of criticism or rejection.

  

  Jack Canfield
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• I'm a big 'American Idol' watcher, and sometimes I like to watch 'America's Got Talent.' Those are big, corny admissions, but sometimes it's so fun to see those kids really sing their hearts out.

  

  Katey Sagal
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• As newly created P2P businesses disrupt the status quo and compete with established companies, they face the difficulty of fitting a square peg into a round hole when it comes to existing regulatory regimes that don't contemplate their business models.

  

  Sam Graves
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• Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
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• Anyone who has played the game professionally, you're always taught that the ball is the most important, most precious thing, so when the ball hits the ground, it's always a mad scramble. It's amazing how many times there is a fumble, and the person who recovers it initially doesn't walk away with the ball.

  

  Barry Sanders
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• Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.

  

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• I was very competitive. I hated losing. No matter what, I had to win.

  

  Marat Safin
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• When I was living in New York and didn't have a penny to my name, I would walk around the streets and occasionally I would see an alcove or something. And I'd think, that'll be good, that'll be a good spot for me when I'm homeless.

  

  Larry David
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• Politicians as a class are dangerous, that people who are seeking power over us are not, by definition, our friends.

  

  James Bovard
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• You think I wuh-wuh-wuh-want to stay in here? You think I wouldn't like a con-con-vertible and a guh-guh-girl friend? But did you ever have people l-l-laughing at you? No, because you're so b-big and so tough! Well, I'm not big and tough.

  

  Ken Kesey
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• If I think about music in the future, I imagine it often as not involving electricity, in some dystopian, post-apocalyptic future. And that's what I get from Penderecki: people making music by taking these instruments out of boxes and playing them. That's a very bizarre and modern thing.

  

  Jonny Greenwood Radiohead
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• Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • People
  • Good
  • Some People