Don Marquis Quotes

I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race

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• I think software patents are a bad idea. Many patents are given for trivial inventions.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Software

• Being taken seriously, for a young writer, is a wonderful form of encouragement, but at the same time, I don't think one should ever feel like attempting a kind of artistic endeavor is beyond your scope just because of age or inexperience.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Time
  • Age
  • Taken

• I am here because I think it was a terrible sin of the west to allow those years of war.

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • War
  • Sin
  • Terrible

• Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Political
  • Lost
  • Party

• One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.

  

  Jack Henry Abbott
  • Up
  • Free
  • Morning

• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• When I was in high school, I started getting into Japanese wrestling. For me to watch those matches, I had to order VHS tapes through catalogues, and these tapes were, like, $20 each.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • School
  • Wrestling
  • Matches

• Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Life
  • Work
  • You

• Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Man
  • Belief
  • Equality

• The difference between the denominational system and the public school system is all the difference between bolstering them up on the one hand and letting them alone of the other.

  

  Edmund Barton
  • Up
  • School
  • Alone

• Human well-being is not a random phenomenon. It depends on many factors - ranging from genetics and neurobiology to sociology and economics. But, clearly, there are scientific truths to be known about how we can flourish in this world. Wherever we can have an impact on the well-being of others, questions of morality apply.

  

  Sam Harris
  • World
  • Morality
  • Random

• I love puffins. They are small, round gothic birds, and their babies are called pufflings.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Small
  • Babies
  • Gothic

• Sometimes it takes dealing with a disability - the trauma, the relearning, the months of rehabilitation therapy - to uncover our true abilities and how we can put them to work for us in ways we may have never imagined.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Work
  • May
  • True

• Portraying Pocahontas' story well was important to me because she was a real person and these were real events in her life.

  

  Q'orianka Kilcher
  • Life
  • Important
  • Person

• I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Time
  • Trying
  • School

• We have a choice - we can both think and feel, using our heads and our hearts.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Think
  • Feel
  • Choice

• I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Think
  • Teach
  • Patience

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work.

  

  Jay Chiat
  • People
  • Work
  • Help

• Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Trying
  • Death
  • Food

• Beaten biscuits: This is the most laborious of cakes, and also the most unwholesome, even when made in the best manner. We do not recommend it; but there is no accounting for tastes. Children would not eat these biscuits-nor grown persons either, if they can get any other sort of bread. When living in a town where there are bakers, there is no excuse for making Maryland biscuit. Believe nobody that says they are not unwholesome. . . . Better to live on Indian cakes.

  

  Eliza Leslie
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Food

• I have noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is enough for all of them i wonder if it might not be the same with the human race

  

  Don Marquis
  • Food
  • Wonder