Quotes with dead-letter

Quotes 261 till 280 of 426.

  • Ernest Hemingway Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Dwight L. Moody Someday you will read in the papers that Moody is dead. Don't you believe a word of it. At that moment I shall be more alive than I am now. I was born of the flesh in 1837, I was born of the spirit in 1855. That which is born of the flesh may die. That which is born of the Spirit shall live forever.
    Dwight L. Moody
    American evangelist (1837 - 1899)
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  • Arnold Rothstein Somehow, I had the feeling that I was responsible for Harry being dead. I remembered all the times that I wished he were dead, all the times I had dreamed of killing him. I got to thinking that maybe my wishing had finally killed him.
    Arnold Rothstein
    American racketeer, businessman and gambler (1882 - 1928)
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  • Oscar Wilde Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Thomas Carlyle Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
    Thomas Carlyle
    Scottish writer and historicus (1795 - 1881)
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  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
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  • Bob Uecker Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
    Bob Uecker
    American Major League Baseball (MLB) player (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Jackson Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was.
    Bruce Jackson
    American folklorist, documentary filmmaker and writer (1936 - )
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  • Bob Barr The 2011 riots in England, which left five dead and caused more than $300 million in property damage, were fueled by a generation of young Brits who grew up without ever hearing the word 'No.'
    Bob Barr
    American attorney and politician (1948 - )
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  • Bruno Maag The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.
    Bruno Maag
    Swiss type designer and businessman (1962 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The body of a sensualist is the coffin of a dead soul.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Bernie Sanders The bottom line is that when Senator Inhofe says, 'Global warming is a hoax,' he is just dead wrong, according to the vast majority of climate scientists.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee The busiest of living agents are certain dead men's thoughts.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Lewis Mumford The chief function of the city is to convert power into form, energy into culture, dead matter into the living symbols of art, biological reproduction into social creativity.
    Lewis Mumford
    American social philosopher (1895 - 1990)
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  • Herman Melville The consciousness of being deemed dead, is next to the presumable unpleasantness of being so in reality. One feels like his own ghost unlawfully tenanting a defunct carcass.
    Herman Melville
    American author (1819 - 1891)
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  • Auguste Comte The dead govern the living.
    Auguste Comte
    French philosopher (1798 - 1857)
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  • Lord George Byron The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Alexander Smith The dead keep their secrets, and in a while we shall be as wise as they - and as taciturn.
    Alexander Smith
    Scottish Poet, Author (1829 - 1867)
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  • Willa Cather The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
    Willa Cather
    American author (1873 - 1947)
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  • Samuel Butler The dead should be judged like criminals, impartially, but they should be allowed the benefit of the doubt.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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