Archibald Rutledge Quotes
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Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.
Alice James -
How wrong people always were when they said: 'It's better to know the worst than go on not knowing either way.' No; they had it exactly the wrong way round. Tell me the truth, doctor, I'd sooner know. But only if the truth is what I want to hear.
Kingsley Amis -
An angry man is unfit to pray.
Nachman of Breslov -
History is a game played backwards only.
Marge Piercy -
Praise Roxane Gay for her big-hearted self-examining intelligence, for her inclusive and forgiving stance, for her courage and determination . . . for saying out loud the things we were thinking, for guiding us back to ourselves and returning to us what was ours all along.
Pam Houston -
You who choose to lead must follow. But if you fall, you fall alone.
Robert Hunter Grateful Dead
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And yet we are but tenants. Let us assure ourselves of this, and then it will not be so hard to make room for the new administration; for shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired.
Joseph Jefferson -
There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
Lucy Fry and I became very good friends on the set…I called her ‘Royal Higness’ & she answered, ‘Yes, my Guardian.
Danila Kozlovsky -
Like the sorcerer of old, the television set casts its magic spell, freezing speech and action and turning the living into silent statues so long as the enchantment lasts. The primary danger of the television screen lies not so much in the behavior it produces as the behavior it prevents — the talks, the games, the family festivities and arguments.
Urie Bronfenbrenner -
God does not create poverty; we do, because we do not share.
Mother Teresa
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Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations.
Barack Obama -
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children.
Hector Berlioz -
Turkey is undoubtedly one of the best gifts that the New World has made to the Old.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin -
It is much easier to be the hunter than the hunted. When you are the one not expected to do anything, you play better.
Gary Payton -
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.
Archibald Rutledge