Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
There is no satisfaction in vengeance unless the offender has time to realize who it is that strikes him, and why retribution has come upon him.
Quotes to Explore
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.
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Charlie Rangel was writing laws on our taxes as chair of the Ways and Means Committee while somehow neglecting to pay his own.
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I don't like to read the Internet; I'm not aware of what's going on.
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After some reflection I have decided that while I am the president of Ecuador, I will not attend any Summit of the Americas until it begins to make the decisions required.
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I'll risk forty dollars that he can outjump any frog in Calaveras county.
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I like what we've got at quarterback. I like our depth there. You know, we'll see.
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Do I believe that God can change bitter circumstances into sweet blessing? Am I willing to let Him?
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The worse the news, the more effort should go into communicating it.
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The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
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[Bob] Dylan began to incorporate things into that scene that were controversial then. He got shouted at in Newport when he played electric guitar, for instance. There was a certain purity that was sought among those people.
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Anyone who says that women do not have influence in men's decisions makes a vast and stupid mistake.
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Greenlight is a bad example of an election process. We came to the conclusion pretty quickly that we could just do away with Greenlight completely, because it was a bottleneck rather than a way for people to communicate choice.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
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Don't let your eyes look here and there, and don't look on someone elses' beauty, so that the devil will not conquer you with the help of your eyes.
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The lovers of romance can go elsewhere for satisfaction but where can the lovers of truth turn if not to history?
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If you are not happy with yourself, even the loftiest achievements won't bring you much satisfaction.
