Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Heart
  • Read

• War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Good
  • Money
  • War

• When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • Idea
  • Young
  • Become

• We're in a world that celebrates things: success, beauty, money. And I reckon that's really about 4 per cent of the world. The rest of us are just getting on with it.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • World
  • Money
  • Success

• And a friend of mine in the Christys, we used to sit up at night and talk and read and wonder if reincarnation, and if it wasn't reality, what would happen to the human spirit when the body dies? Is there an afterlife? Just questions like that.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Up
  • Night
  • Reality

• There is no longer a way out of our present situation except by forging a road toward our objective, violently and by force, over a sea of blood and under a horizon blazing with fire.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Present
  • Road
  • Fire

• We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

  

  Samuel Fuller
  • Afraid
  • Common
  • Common Sense

• A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.

  

  Omar Epps
  • You
  • Doubt
  • Instincts

• When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Like
  • Road
  • First

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• Try to devote the percentage of time for each club that you're going to be using on the golf course. I like to have two or three different clubs that I practice with, not four or five.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Time
  • Different
  • Practice

• I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • American
  • Story
  • Pride

• American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • American
  • Powerful

• Real beauty is to be true to oneself. That's what makes me feel good.

  

  Laetitia Casta
  • Good
  • Real
  • True

• A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Justice
  • Right
  • Soldier

• It's crazy: when it's raining, it makes no sense to me that people drive 10 miles an hour faster than they normally would, but then the other thing that makes no sense is when people drive 30 miles an hour slower than normal.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • People
  • Crazy
  • Sense

• I watched the Bush administration overreact to the Clinton administration, who believed they did too much nation building, sustaining other countries, and that's why we never put the commitment on Afghanistan and Iraq that should have been in there under their policy leadership.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Why
  • Leadership
  • Commitment

• When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Breakfast
  • Allowed
  • Hyper

• There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. The Talmud tells us that by saving a single human being, man can save the world.

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • Time
  • World
  • May

• I'm not surprised by the way these kids are. When I recruited them I knew that these were special kids. I just prayed that we could get them to commit. And how excited I am that we're going to have them for more years. The fact that they're poised when it matters ... over the course of the season those two guys have done incredible things. When you look at them as a pair, I challenge you to find a freshman combination anywhere that's doing the things they're doing.

  

  Brad Soderberg
  • Kids
  • Season
  • Combination

• The Bible is a statement, not of theories, but of actual facts... things are not true because they are in the Bible, but they are only in the Bible because they are true.

  

  Hannah Whitall Smith
  • Bible
  • Facts
  • Theories

• In Florida I was illiterate, Boxing Authority didn't want me, then they had a special psychiatrist to come to Kentucky, they checked and they didn't want me. But as soon as my name was Mohammed Ali, as soon as I announced I was a Muslim, then all of a sudden I became smart.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Boxing
  • Muslim
  • Psychiatrist

• Those who write need that "willing suspension of disbelief ", as Coleridge called it.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Write
  • Disbelief
  • Suspension

• Some facts should be suppressed, or, at least, a just sense of proportion should be observed in treating them.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Facts
  • Sense
  • Proportion