Walter Scott Quotes
Stood for his country’s glory fast,And nail’d her colours to the mast!
Walter Scott
Quotes to Explore
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I guess I'd be put in the ID politics camp. But there is really nothing in the world-view of, say, Bernie Sanders I actually disagree with. I'd like a guaranteed income, single-payer health care, a stronger safety net, etc. The problem is the temptation to paper over historically fraught issues to achieve that is tempting.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I'm always looking to do things that are really different from each other.
Rachelle Lefevre
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I love tennis, but I just don't like grass.
Marat Safin
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The environmental crisis is a global problem, and only global action will resolve it.
Barry Commoner
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I'm a military guy. I'm not a political character.
Oliver North
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
Hannah Arendt
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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.
Jose Saramago
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Misprize common sense at your peril is my motto.
Kingsley Amis
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America, for me, is the country where, if you have something great to offer, you'll be valued highly.
Tadashi Yanai
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The French fried potato has become an inescapable horror in almost every public eating place in the country. 'French fries', say the menus, but they are not French fries any longer. They are a furry-textured substance with the taste of plastic wood.
Russell Baker
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Stood for his country’s glory fast,And nail’d her colours to the mast!
Walter Scott