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

• These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias was towards sadness, their stars cloud-hidden when their spirits woke to life....In this world, surely, there should always be a mating between the lovers of life and the endurers of it, in couples they should find a causeway for their feet and walk it together, the star-shine of the one comforting the darkness of the other.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Stars
  • Darkness
  • Sadness

• The possibility that members of the Trump team coordinated and colluded with agents of the Kremlin on Russia's interference in our elections is a profound and disturbing one, but it is pivotal that we approach this issue with the seriousness it deserves.

  

  Raja Krishnamoorthi
  • Possibility
  • Issue
  • Deserves

• Gonzales incident happened last September 21. The announcement is September 28. This is not rush. In fact it was studied by the legal.

  

  Eduardo Ermita
  • Legal
  • Rush
  • Incident

• Get the love you deserve and gave your partner the love and support he deserves.

  

  John Gray
  • Love
  • Support
  • Deserves

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

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Deserves
  • Incident
  • Grotesque