Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion.Edgar Allan Poe
Quotes to Explore
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Every Jew is my brother, and I will not succumb to hate speech.
Yair Lapid -
Reducing the price of cancer drugs is a humanitarian move.
Yusuf Hamied -
Music knows no barrier of age or culture. It isn’t about being politically correct or even making a statement. Music is what appeals to the ears and touches your soul.
A. R. Rahman -
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting.
Ben Affleck -
These old ballparks are like cathedrals in America. We don't have big old Gothic cathedrals like they do in Europe. But we got baseball parks.
Jimmy Buffett -
Dad somewhat enjoyed being called gay. He said it made women want to prove the assertion wrong.
Jennifer Grant
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Because it is so unbelievable, the Truth often escapes being known.
Heraclitus -
To deny a man a job is to say that a man has no right to exist.
Martin Luther King, Jr. -
There's such an advantage to being involved in the day-to-day details of each other's lives. It's a marvelous fabric to exist in.
Tom Hanks -
Whoever finds love beneath hurt and grief disappears into emptiness with a thousand new disguises
Rumi -
When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before.
Sharon Stone -
The best advice I've heard was from a lady in her 80s at my grandmother's 90th birthday. I was telling her how wonderful my children are. She said, "Don't forget your husband: you only borrow your children; your husband you'll have for ever."
Davina McCall
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Lift up your eyes. The heavenly Father waits to bless you - in inconceivable ways to make your life what you never dreamed it could be.
Anne Ortlund -
It's like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you're all excited, 'My God, how did I ever get here?' Then, about six months later, you say, 'How the hell did the rest of them get here?'
Mike Gravel -
I have never understood why the politicians who are most eager to send soldiers into harm's way are always depicted as their most ardent friends.
Joe Conason -
I still do the standard editorial cartoon: that is my bread and butter. I absolutely love doing that.
Walt Handelsman -
It helps over time to lift our national standard ... but AP doesn't reach all students. Indeed, the challenge of high schools is, first of all, reducing a dropout rate that, nationally, is almost one-third.
Bob Wise -
Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.
Aristotle