Evelyn Waugh Quotes
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
Quotes to Explore
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
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My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
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Old habits die hard. I don't like spending money willy-nilly.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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To retire is to begin to die.
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Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence.
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When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.
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Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.
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I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
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Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.
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I will stand against those who see terrorism when Americans die, but who see suicide bombers who kill Israelis and believe that that is just part of the negotiating process.
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It is the same thing: killing, dying, it is the same thing: one is just as alone in each. He is lucky, he will only die once. As for me, for ten days I have been killing him at every minute.
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My dad's job was to manage apartment complexes, so when people would move out or when people would die or whatever, people left things in their apartments, he would always bring me home people's collection of music that they left behind. I was excited because I didn't really have money to go to the CD store all the time.
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I have a son, who is a... not an ordinary form of schizophrenia, but clearly, cannot take care of himself. And the great fear of then, of all parents is, when the parents die, who takes care of your child? And the answer is: they become homeless.
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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
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Even though I wasn't born or raised in El Paso, it'll always be a part of me until the day that I die.
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The king must die so that the country can live.
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When my brother passed away... I made a decision that I might die soon, and if I die, I want people to know who I really am.
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
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Contrary to popular belief, Oxford has the highest concentration of dull-witted, stupid, narrow-minded people anywhere in the British Isles.
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Nothing we learn about the universe threatens our faith. It only enriches it.
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Boston is so laced with jerseys that you can be dressed head to toe in team apparel and no one will look twice.
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We're investing record sums on buses and trains. We have a huge programme to encourage people to walk and cycle, and everyone up to and including the PM has been looking closely at how we can promote electric vehicles, hybrids, and other technologies.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
