Quotes 201 till 220 of 791.
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How gladly would I meet mortality, my sentence, and be earth in sensible! how glad would lay me down, as in my mother's lap! There I should rest, and sleep secure.
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How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.
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Humility is of central importance; I think it's an underappreciated virtue in the contemporary discussion of law and politics.
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Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law.
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I ... have another cup of coffee with my mother. We get along very well, veterans of a guerrilla war we never understood.
Source: Slouching Towards Bethlehem (2013) 121 -
I am a reflection of my mother’s secret poetry as well as of her hidden angers.
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I am not just a lesbian. I am not just a poet. I am not just a mother. Honor the complexity of your vision and yourselves.
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I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
Source: The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (2011) 97 -
I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.
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I believe that always, or almost always, in all childhood and in all the lives that follow them, the mother represents madness. Our mothers always remain the strangest, craziest people we've ever met.
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I believe that the fewer the laws in a home the better; but there is one law which should be as plainly understood as the shining of the sun is visible at noonday, and that is, implicit and instantaneous obedience from the child to the parent, not only for the peace of the home, but for the highest good of the child.
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I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
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I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. I am President of the United States, and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.
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I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.
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I don't fear death. I remember my last meeting with my father when he told me, You know, tonight when I will be killed, my mother and my father will be waiting for me. It makes me weepy... but I don't think it can happen unless God wants it to happen because so many people have tried to kill me.
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I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.
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I don't think necessity is the mother of invention — invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
Source: An Autobiography (1977) part III, sect. 2 -
I got to grow up with a mother who taught me to believe in me.
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I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
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