Anthony Trollope Quotes
It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope
Quotes to Explore
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I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs.
Mae West
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That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad..
Wallace Stevens
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This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.
Ted Hughes
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I'm the first to admit that there's something unnatural... something unseemly... about rock stars mounting the pulpit and preaching at presidents, and then disappearing to their villas in the South of France. Talk about a fish out of water. It was weird enough when Jesse Helms showed up at a U2 concert... but this is really weird, isn't it?
Bono
U2
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We live not in order to eat, but in order not to know what we feel like eating.
Anton Chekhov
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In the category of economic superpowers, more is better than less - the more technology those leaders develop, the more we all benefit.
Edward C. Prescott
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A king is a thing men have made for their own sakes, for quietness sake. Just as in a family one man is appointed to buy the meat.
John Selden
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It would be better for me … that multitudes of men should disagree with me rather than that I, being one, should be out of harmony with myself.
Plato
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Remain close to government and away from politics. It means deal more with the authorities. And less with individuals.
Wang Jianlin
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'Still feeling guilty, are we? I’d have thought you’d be over that by now.''I have a nettlesome little thing called a conscience,' Emily hissed. 'Ever hear of it?''They’re out of fashion in New York,' Stanton said, and though she guessed she was joking, he didn’t sound humorous.
M. K. Hobson
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I'm not gay, although I wish I were, just to piss off the homophobes.
Kurt Cobain
Nirvana
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It is hard to rescue a man from the slough of luxury and idleness combined. If anything can do it, it is a cradle filled annually.
Anthony Trollope