Edward Lear Quotes
There he heard a Lady talking,To some milk-white Hens of Dorking,-'Tis the lady Jingly Jones!On that little heap of stonesSits the Lady Jingly Jones!
Edward Lear
Quotes to Explore
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I understand how the economy actually works.
Carly Fiorina
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I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?
Karl Marlantes
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The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security.
Jack Reed
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Unusually for an Indian man of his generation, my father, being aware of my mother's intellectual abilities, encouraged her to go abroad by herself to obtain a Ph.D.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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What people don't realize is that professionals are sensational because of the fundamentals. The sensationalism has taken over the professionalism.
Barry Larkin
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Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Traffic was like a bad dog. It wasn't important to look both ways when crossing the street; it was important to not show fear.
P. J. O'Rourke
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To speak of joy and to sing of it, borne on The shoulders of joyous men, to feel the heart That is the common, the bravest fundament, This is a facile exercise
Wallace Stevens
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Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know?
Irvine Welsh
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In my youth, growing up in a Jewish milieu, there was one thing we did not have to look for and that was exaltation. Every moment is great, we were taught, every moment is unique.
Abraham Joshua Heschel
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
Larry Wall
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...why did we wait for any thing? - why not seize the pleasure at once? - How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!
Jane Austen
