Lewis Carroll Quotes

His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

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• At his direction, I have taken command as the temporary Head of the Republic.

  

  Ziaur Rahman
  • Taken
  • Head
  • Direction

• I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!

  

  Abraham Polonsky
  • You
  • Give
  • Answer

• I know there is a bounty on my head, such as there is with many other leaders and protesters.

  

  Tawakkol Karman
  • Know
  • Head
  • Leaders

• Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Death
  • Head
  • Pure

• I shaved the back of my head once and did the asymmetrical hair.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Hair
  • Back
  • Head

• In ancient British times, the whole country belonged to tribes, and the tribes owned their several districts. At the head of each tribe was the chief.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • Country
  • Head
  • Whole

• I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head when I'm writing my books.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Head

• I'm a massive yoga head. Lots of yoga and lots of running. I do Bikram yoga. I adore it.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Running
  • Yoga
  • Head

• I cannot have God in my heart if he is not in my head. Before I can believe in, I must believe that.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Believe
  • Heart

• The greatest answer to prayer is that I am brought into a perfect understanding with God, and that alters my view of actual things.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Perfect
  • Understanding

• The first beginnings of wisdom...is to ask questions but never to answer any.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Wisdom
  • First
  • Answer

• And now it's your turn - the time to answer the greatest challenge of our existence on this planet is now.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Time
  • Challenge
  • Answer

• Don't think. Get out of your head. Stop planning and just go.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Stop
  • Planning
  • Head

• People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Question

• An answer, once found, is dull; and the only remaining interest lies in a further effort to render equally dull what is still obscure enough to be intriguing.

  

  Nelson Goodman
  • Effort
  • Lies
  • Interest

• There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution.

  

  Jennifer Donnelly
  • Woman
  • Head
  • Marquise

• I fear not," Hamilcar said gravely, shaking his head. "It seems to be the fate of all nations, that as they grow in wealth so they lose their manly virtues. With wealth comes corruption, indolence, a reluctance to make sacrifices, and a weakening of the feeling of patriotism.

  

  G.A. Henty
  • Head
  • Shaking
  • Hamicar

• There’s no need to look at a machine to find what is twelve times twelve. The answer is indelibly there.

  

  R. M. Williams
  • Answer
  • Machine
  • Indelibly

• While the soul is in mortal sin, nothing can profit it; none of its good works merit an eternal reward, since they do not proceed from God as their first principle, and by Him alone is our virtue real virtue.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Real

• He lost some timing when he got hurt. Our defense is not going to be able to create for him as much as it did last year. He gets a lot of his baskets in the open court, and we're not going to be able to get that for him as much this year.

  

  Dan Monson
  • Lost
  • Create
  • Defense

• As a teenager, I had to struggle alone to learn about myself and what it meant to be gay. Now for 48 years I've had the satisfaction of working with other gay people all across the country to get the bigots off our backs, to oil the closet door hinges, to change prejudiced hearts and minds, and to show that gay love is good for us and for the rest of the world too. It's hard work – but it's vital, and it's gratifying, and it's often fun!

  

  Barbara Gittings
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• His answer trickled through my head like water through a sieve.

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Head
  • Answer
  • Sieve