Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes

Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

Arthur Conan Doyle

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• I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Men
  • Look
  • Old

• I organize my denim, leather, and dresses by color, although my jeans are pretty much just black and gray.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Pretty
  • Black
  • Color

• Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Discipline
  • Habit
  • Easy

• If you're true to yourself, you just do what you do.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • True
  • You
  • Yourself

• If I lose my job at a furniture factory where I've worked for decades, no amount of cheaper toys and raincoats at Wal-Mart is going to make me whole again.

  

  David Autor
  • Job

• 'What's wrong - what's the matter with you?' Nothing, nothing's the matter, I've merely taken a leap outside my fate, and now I don't know where to turn, what to run for...

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Taken
  • Fate

• There are parallels between the 1960s and now, because during the 1960s, people were being slaughtered, their lives were being taken, there was violence, greed, drugs were rising - just all of this. And my uncle was saying, you've got to come back to faith, hope and love. Now, you get the translation and say faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and love.

  

  Alveda King
  • People
  • Hope
  • Faith

• The universe is already programmed to give each of us a year of happiness. Our challenge lies in programming ourselves to receive it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Universe
  • Challenge
  • Happiness

• Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

  

  Harvey Mackay
  • God
  • Humble
  • Thankful

• Class is much more than Marx's definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involved your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Thinking
  • Future
  • Relationship

• I can control my passions and emotions if I can understand their nature.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Control
  • Emotions
  • Passions

• Ceremonies are no aid to blessedness.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Aid
  • Blessedness
  • Ceremonies

• Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Suffering

• Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states...

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Society
  • Propaganda
  • Section

• Genius or fool, you don't live in the world alone. You can hide underground or you can build a wall around yourself, but somebody's going to come along and screw up the works.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Genius
  • Build
  • Works

• Everything's not black and white. We choose to make bad decisions or not. I wanted to explore that and shine a light on it. Chip is trying to be a better person and lead a better life. His methods are just super flawed.

  

  William Emerson Arnett
  • Trying
  • Black
  • Decision

• Critics have a problem with sentimentality. Readers do not. I write for readers.

  

  Mitch Albom
  • Problem
  • Readers
  • Sentimentality

• Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Readers
  • Seldom
  • Desultory