R. M. Williams Quotes

Land was bringing six shillings an acre, travelling dentists charged a shilling an extraction – but in Caltowie the local draper pulled them out as a free service to customers.

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• Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• By virtue of our private property society, we have disconnected individuals from the land. We have put them in high rises and asked them to live their lives in urban settings, disconnected from the land.

  

  Adam Dell
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• The Land of Israel goes with the Torah of Israel under the sovereignty of the State of Israel.

  

  Naftali Bennett
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• As long as there's land available, single-family homes will be built, and Colorado residents will always go for a single-family over a condo.

  

  Gary Bauer
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• If we can't afford to take good care of the land that feeds us, we're in an insurmountable mess.

  

  Wendell Berry
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• I love Canada. It's a wonderful political act of faith that exists atop a breathtakingly beautiful land.

  

  Yann Martel
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• To put it rather bluntly, I am not the type who wants to go back to the land; I am the type who wants to go back to the hotel.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Back
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• The settlement of the Land of Israel is the essence of Zionism. Without settlement, we will not fulfill Zionism. It's that simple.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Simple
  • Land
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• When men come to like a sea-life, they are not fit to live on land.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Men
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• If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Earth
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• It is very true that D.C. often operates in the land of caricature.

  

  Ted Cruz
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• They're criminals, they brutalized Afghanistan, they killed our people, they destroyed our land.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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• The ethnic differences among Filipinos are very real. The paucity of arable land, for instance, explains the industry of the Ilokanos and the Cebuanos.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Real
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  • Land

• If I told you about a land of love, friend, would you follow me and come?

  

  Yunus Emre
  • Friend
  • Land
  • Follow

• To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Believe
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• Buy land, they're not making it anymore.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Land
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• I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Done
  • Appreciate
  • Land

• Orwell's '1984' convinced me, rightly or wrongly, that Marxism was only a quantum leap away from tyranny. By contrast, Huxley's 'Brave New World' suggested that the totalitarian systems of the future might be subservient and ingratiating.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
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  • Brave

• The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
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• When Jared smiled, his teeth were stained with fresh scarlet. "Don't you hate me?" he demanded. "I'd hate me." "You just tried to drown yourself," Ash said. "You seem to hate yourself plenty already.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Hate
  • Said
  • Plenty

• Land was bringing six shillings an acre, travelling dentists charged a shilling an extraction – but in Caltowie the local draper pulled them out as a free service to customers.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Land
  • Shillings
  • Acre