John Grisham Quotes
I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
John Grisham
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More than likely, mother would simply go enigmatic on him, give him one of her inscrutable smiles, and tell him that if he didn't already understand, he never would.
Orson Scott Card
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The more noisy Negro leaders, by depicting all whites as natural and implacable enemies to their race, have done it a great disservice. Large numbers of whites who were formerly very friendly to it, and willing to go to great lengths to help it, are now resentful and suspicious.
H. L. Mencken
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Our own time, and by this I mean the last two or three generations, including our own, can be summed up in a way that brings into unity an immense number of details by saying of it that it is a time in which the search for the supreme truth has been a search in reality or through reality or even a search for some supremely acceptable fiction.
Wallace Stevens
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How many shots does it take before the concept ay choice becomes obsolete?
Irvine Welsh
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Clearly, we have compiled a record of serious failures in recent technological encounters with the environment. In each case, the new technology was brought into use before the ultimate hazards were known. We have been quick to reap the benefits and slow to comprehend the costs.
Barry Commoner
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Portam itineri dici longissimam esse.
Marcus Terentius Varro
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Rose Aylmer, whom these wakeful eyesMay weep, but never see,A night of memories and of sighsI consecrate to thee.
Walter Savage Landor
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Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour.
William Shakespeare
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Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
Ameen Rihani
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Abandoning open society for fear of terrorism is the only way to be defeated by it.
Edward Snowden
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Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.
Max Levchin
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I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.
John Grisham