Arthur Morrison Quotes

But in the end the truth prevails, if it be well set forth; and the schoolmen, groaning in their infinite labour, wearily write another prescription, admit another precedent, and make another pigeon-hole.

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• Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.

  

  Baha'u'llah
  • Him
  • Near
  • Unto

• In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
  • Man
  • Reality
  • Lies

• When it looks like I may live longer than five minutes I'll drop cigarettes like a hot potato.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • May
  • Like

• I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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  • Play
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• I'm not super into sports.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
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  • Super

• Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Down
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• Writing is something I've always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Myself

• Every role is a new form of surrender.

  

  Laura Dern
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  • Role
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• Facebook and Instagram are spiritual brothers.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Spiritual
  • Brothers

• It takes a lot of people to make a winning team. Everybody's contribution is important.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • People
  • Important
  • Team

• I was definitely surrounded by music and fashion at a very, very young age.

  

  Harley Viera-Newton
  • Music
  • Age
  • Fashion

• A counted number of pulses only is given to us of a variegated, dramatic life. How may we see in them all that is to to be seen in them by the finest senses?

  

  Walter Pater
  • Life
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• 'You will be very welcome,' answered Dorothy, 'for you will help to keep away the other wild beasts. It seems to me they must be more cowardly than you are if they allow you to scare them so easily.' 'They really are,' said the Lion, 'but that doesn't make me any braver, and as long as I know myself to be a coward I shall be unhappy.'

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Long
  • Help
  • Lion

• My suffering left me sad and gloomy.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Suffering
  • Sad

• Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • Society

• Tupac is taking the message to black kids and a lot of white kids, going 'This shit's happening on the streets.' Well, I'm from a different part of the black community. Why is Orleans Woods in Charleston, South Carolina, less 'valid' than Compton?

  

  Darius Rucker Hootie & the Blowfish
  • Different
  • Why
  • Kids

• God is a great concept, but it doesn't work

  

  Kevin Smith
  • Work
  • Great
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• The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

  

  Bertrand Russell

• All the characters I play are all inside of me in a way, and they're all different, the darkness, the lightness, whatever that is.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Different

• The subconscious is ceaselessly murmuring, and it is by listening to these murmurs that one hears the truth.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Truth
  • Listening
  • Murmuring

• Telling the truth is the slow, mundane, difficult route to a meaningful life. Anything else is cheating.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Meaningful

• Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

  

  David A. Siegel
  • Men
  • Business
  • Small

• Experience is the mother of custom.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Experience
  • Mother
  • Custom

• But in the end the truth prevails, if it be well set forth; and the schoolmen, groaning in their infinite labour, wearily write another prescription, admit another precedent, and make another pigeon-hole.

  

  Arthur Morrison
  • Truth
  • Set
  • Prevails