George Bancroft Quotes
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
George Bancroft
Quotes to Explore
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The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.
Caleb Cushing
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
Samuel Johnson
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I'm omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though I'll read a novel in a day or two.
O. R. Melling
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I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
Dana Spiotta
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I thought it was a wonderful line - right on the cutting room floor.
Natalie Wood
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On 'Oz' one day, I got a chunk of a camera embedded in my head, and I was passed out on the floor geysering blood while the set medic stood over me, freaking out. No help whatsoever. I ended up going to the ER and getting nine stitches in my head – real Frankenstein stitches.
J. K. Simmons
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But I think, and hope, that the novels can be understood and enjoyed as science fiction, on their own terms.
Dan Simmons
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Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.
Kamala Harris
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THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN CONTROL PEOPLE IS TO LIE TO THEM. You can write that down in your book in great big letters. The only way you can control anybody is to lie to them.
L. Ron Hubbard
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Oh! Women can never forgive me. They hate me, they can feel that I ‘m disarming them. I show them without their coquetry, in the states of animals cleaning themselves... ...I'm sure of it; they see me as the enemy. Fortunately, since if they did like me, that would be the end of me.
Edgar Degas
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No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself.
J. R. R. Tolkien
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Now we can cross the Shifting Sands.
L. Frank Baum
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When we're children we're told love is going to be great: Just fall in love, the rest will take care of itself - and then we fall in love and we realize, Okay, this is actually really, really hard work. This guy doesn't just tell me I'm great every day, you know?
Jewel Kilcher
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My appearance has changed a lot over the years, but it has far more to do with how I feel about being a woman.
Emma Thompson
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Sometimes me think, 'What is friend?' Then me say, a Friend is someone to share the last cookie with you.
Patrick Henry
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Work-family conflicts-the trade-offs of your money or your life, your job or your child-would not be forced upon women with such sanguine disregard if men experienced the same career stalls caused by the-buck-stops-here responsibility for children.
Letty Cottin Pogrebin
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Everyone wants to get behind the red rope, but actually: be yourself, don't believe what you see, don't believe all this marketing.
Daphne Guinness
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In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.
George Bancroft
