John Milton Quotes
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When I go a stretch without tweeting, I will occasionally get an email from my mom, checking in. I always find this amusing but also gratifying: Thanks to Twitter, I can keep in touch with my parents and let them in on what I'm doing in a way that even the regular phone calls of a doting daughter can't do.
Rachel Sklar -
Foie gras is sold as an expensive delicacy in some restaurants and shops. But no one pays a higher price for foie gras than the ducks and geese who are abused and killed to make it.
Kate Winslet -
Whoso walketh in solitude, And inhabiteth the wood, Choosing light, wave, rock, and bird, Before the money-loving herd, Into that forester shall pass From these companions power and grace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.
Barack Obama -
I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
Patrick Modiano -
It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.
Donald Trump
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I spent most of my time with adults because although my parents were older when they had me, they're really like teenagers. I sort of became the third musketeer.
Emily Ratajkowski -
Man was made at the end of the week's work, when God was tired.
Mark Twain -
I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Mark Twain -
If man could be crossed with the cat it would improve man, but deteriorate the cat.
Mark Twain -
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.
Mark Twain -
It put our energies to sleep and made visionaries of us - dreamers and indolent... It is good to begin life poor; it is good to begin life rich - these are wholesome; but to begin it prospectively rich! The man who has not experienced it cannot imagine the curse of it.
Mark Twain
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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
Mark Twain -
Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
Mark Twain -
I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Mark Twain -
Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run.
Mark Twain -
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
Mark Twain -
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
Mark Twain
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I'm not locked into playing one guy.
Jeff Bridges -
Naming is a privilege of reason and the province of bullies. We name to tame and to maim; to honor the great, the dead, and ourselves.
Jane Leavy -
You appear to know more of my private history than I have the pleasure of knowing of yours. Pray, sir, may I—but, bless me! are you unwell?” I asked this in some alarm, because the little man was rolling about in his seat, holding his sides, and growing very red in the face.
R. M. Ballantyne -
People wander about what you are pursuing. You have to explain about the thread.
William Stafford -
Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.
John Milton