Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

Arthur Conan Doyle

• Blessing
• Brothers

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 was an immense tragedy that sparked a global response. The international community came forward with aid to the victims and came together to address the broader concerns about nuclear security and safety.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Together
  • Community
  • Safety

• I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Life
  • World
  • Game

• I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • War
  • Reading
  • Star

• Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Men
  • Funny
  • Like

• In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • World
  • Politics
  • Thankful

• Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Time
  • Leisure

• My operas usually come from musical ideas rather than ideas about subject matter.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Ideas
  • Matter
  • Rather

• The struggle to conquer oppression in our country is the weaker for the traditionalist, conservative, and primitive restraints imposed on women by man-dominated structures within our movement, as also because of equally traditionalist attitudes of surrender and submission on the part of women.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Women
  • Country
  • Struggle

• I'm 23 years old and still wearing pigtails.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Years
  • Old
  • Still

• When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Me
  • Thought

• Idling is not my strong suit.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Strong
  • Suit
  • Idling

• And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Song
  • Me
  • Wanted

• After things started to happen here, my choice of material was extremely limited. It was a weird situation.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Weird
  • Situation
  • Choice

• I really feel all my adult life has been spent in that little black box. If a wonderful part on TV came along I would do it. But I don't want to do a recurring role. It would just be my luck that the thing would be successful. I'm old enough now and also secure enough financially that I really only want to do what I want to do.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Life
  • Black
  • Successful

• Leaving your country at a tender age really rearranges the way you perceive the world. So I feel marginally attached to many places rather than deeply attached to any one place.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • World
  • Country
  • Age

• Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
  • Success
  • Beautiful

• The more faithful preachers are to the Word of God in their preaching, the more liable they are to the charge of hypocrisy. Why? Because the more faithful people are to the Word of God the higher the message is that they will preach. The higher the message, the further they will be from obeying themselves.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• War is like a monster," he says, almost to himself. "War is the devil. It starts and it consumes and it grows and grows and grows." He's looking at me now. "And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Men
  • War
  • Devil

• If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Freedom
  • Weapons
  • Willpower

• The world stretches before me, the vast world of the big, the little, and the medium.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • World
  • Me
  • Big

• To claim, therefore, inerrancy for the King James Version, or even for the Revised Version, is to claim inerrancy for men who never professed it for themselves.

  

  William Bell Riley
  • King
  • Claim

• Whoever comes to me, will be free and equal, because I am freedom.

  

  Adam Mickiewicz
  • Freedom
  • Equal
  • Comes

• I feel there are expectations that I have given to myself that were given to me externally as opposed to internall.

  

  Noah Syndergaard
  • Expectations
  • Internally
  • Externally

• Brothers are a blessing for one thing. There is no possibility of any young lady getting unreasonably conceited if she be endowed with them.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Blessing
  • Brothers