Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• Republicans ... are conservatives who think it would be best if we faced the fact that people are no damned good. They think that if we admit that we have selfish, acquisitive natures and then set out to get all we can for ourselves by working hard for it, that things will be better for everyone. They are not insensitive to the poor, but tend to think the poor are impoverished because they won't work. They think there would be fewer of them to feel sorry for if the government did not encourage the proliferation of the least fit among us with welfare programs.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• Your character is the harvest of your habits.

  

  Adrian Rogers
  • Character
  • Habit
  • Harvest

• I'm surrounded by young and beautiful people. I hate looking at ugliness.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Hate

• You can kill a man but you cant kill a idea.

  

  Sophocles
  • Idea
  • Kill

• No matter what, I think people are trying to better themselves, or to better their situation, or to find something new and exciting.

  

  Mark Hoppus Blink-182
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Vanish
  • Venus
  • Firmament

• Just a good shot right on the right spot in the rib cage.

  

  Champ Bailey
  • Right
  • Shot
  • Rib Cage

• When anyone is going wrong, it is a mistake to warn him not to go further. It is also a mistake to leave him alone. The proper course is to call his attention to something better, and frame our conversation in such a way that he becomes wholly absorbed in the better. He will then forget his old mistakes, his old faults and his old desires, and will give all his life and power to the building of that better which has engaged his new interest.

  

  Christian D. Larson
  • Power
  • Mistake
  • Interest

• I think I make better use of language and imagery than when I started out.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Language
  • Imagery

• The charm of variety there was not, nor the excitement of incident; but I liked peace so well, and sought stimulus so little, that when the latter came I almost felt it a disturbance, and rather still wished it had held aloof.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Excitement
  • Charm
  • Variety

• Anecdote: The extent of Michael Jackson's fame at its height, and his eagerness to exploit it is shown by an incident in 1984 when invited to a White House reception hosted by then President and First Lady Ronald and Nancy Reagan. Jackson had been assured that the only people there, besides the presidential couple, would be a few staff members' children. Aghast to find around 75 adults and no children, Jackson locked himself in an upstairs bathroom, refusing to emerge until assured that all non-essential adults had been replaced by a number of children.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • White House
  • Extent
  • Incident

• Hey anyone who thinks a non-military–grade rappelling cable can support the weight of two grown men and a miniature donkey deserves to fall off a cliff.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Support
  • Military
  • Deserves

• The more outré and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Deserves
  • Incident
  • Grotesque