Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.

Vladimir Nabokov

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• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
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• I want to make sure I don't interfere with the success of that team next year. I don't see any way I could go to practice like most of 'em do, and not hurt the team. I'd go nuts if I tried doing that.

  

  Bear Bryant
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• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
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• I've been angst-ridden all my life, but finally I'm in a place where things don't matter so much.

  

  Kate Dickie
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• Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

  

  Jack Kerouac
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• Touring a segregated America - forever being stopped and harassed by white cops hurt you most 'cos you don't realise the damage. You hold it in. You feel empty, like someone reached in and pulled out your guts. You feel hurt and dirty, less than a person.

  

  B. B. King
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• By what principle of original right is it that one-fiftieth or one-ninetieth of a great nation, by calling themselves a State, have the right to break up and ruin that nation as a matter of original principle?

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• There are things that people say that hurt my feelings or whatever, especially with social media right now. It can be the most amazing thing, and it can also be the most negative and detrimental thing.

  

  Zendaya
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• Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
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• Cyber terrorists are no different from other terrorists: No matter where they hide, we will track them down and seek to bring them to the United States to face justice.

  

  Dana Boente
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  • Matter

• You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
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• When you're dealing with machines or anything that you build, it either works or it doesn't, no matter how good of a salesman you are.

  

  Marc Andreesen
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• I love Memphis, I guess you could say, in the way that you love a brother even if he does sometimes puzzle and sadden and frustrate you. Say what you want about it, it's an authentic place. I was born and raised in Memphis, and no matter where I go, Memphis belongs to me, and I to it.

  

  Hampton Sides
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• I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
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• Almost any movie, no matter how original, is borrowing from some other movies.

  

  Oren Peli
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• Grown-ups and children are not readily encouraged to unearth the power of words. Adults are repeatedly assured a picture is worth a thousand of them, while the playground response to almost any verbal taunt is 'Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.' I don't beg so much as command to differ.

  

  Inga Muscio
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• The stars are matter, we're matter, but it doesn't matter.

  

  Captain Beefheart
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• I wore a thong and a bra and a wig. Those things hurt. I mean, thongs? Like, they dig in. It takes a tough man to be a woman.

  

  Hank Azaria
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  • Woman
  • Hurt

• A rapid bolt will rend the clouds apart, and every single White be seared by wounds. I tell you this. I want it all to hurt.

  

  Dante Alighieri
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• I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

  

  Tamala Jones
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• They could see she was a real Princess and no question about it, now that she had felt one pea all the way through twenty mattresses and twenty more feather beds. Nobody but a Princess could be so delicate.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
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  • She
  • Question

• Work out problems in person, not on e-mail.

  

  Karin Ireland
  • Person
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• I guess edgy things tend to get my attention.

  

  Rick Rubin
  • Attention
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• I adore you, mon petit, and would never allow him to hurt you, no matter how gently or madly.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Hurt
  • Matter
  • Adore