John Betjeman Quotes
I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
John Betjeman
Quotes to Explore
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
T. S. Eliot
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The beauty of a Moroccan riad is undeniable, but even the most die-hard fan may find herself growing a little weary of what can come to feel like a one-size-fits-all aesthetic: tilework, white Berber rugs, woolen tribal throw pillows in reds and ochers, cut-metal lanterns.
Hanya Yanagihara
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Whatever they did for democracy, the U.S. interventions in the Middle East and the vaunted Arab Spring have proved to be pure hell for Arab Christians.
Pat Buchanan
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
Dalai Lama
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
Carlos Ponce
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The devil made me do it.
Flip Wilson
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In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
Karin Slaughter
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
Ville Valo
HIM
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World's children cannot wait any longer. While international community debates and issues recommendations, statements and fine speeches, world's children - marginalised, socially excluded, poor and vulnerable - continue to suffer.
Kailash Satyarthi
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
Ted Deutch
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I just try to keep myself a traditionalist. I liked being an underground comic doing my thing. I want to maintain that. I just do.
Zach Galifianakis
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I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mahatma Gandhi
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I enjoyed my stay in the Congress. Most people do not. And too many people who have been elected really don't understand the nature of government.
Ed Koch
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I've long been an admirer of Philip French's way of writing as well as his knowledge of films. He was one of the few critics to be aware, and make audiences aware, of the work of people on a film set other than the director.
Douglas Slocombe
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This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
Walter Rudolf Hess
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Health care is a need; it's not a commodity, and it should be distributed according to need. If you're very sick, you should have a lot of it. If you're not sick, you shouldn't have a lot of it.
Marcia Angell
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Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
Bhumibol Adulyadej
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I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.
John Betjeman
