Quotes with prison-house

Quotes 161 till 180 of 388.

  • Henry Manning Intellectual pride inflicts itself upon everybody. Where it dwells there can be no other opinion in the house.
    Pastime papers
    Henry Manning
    British cleric and cardinal (1808 - 1892)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Quentin Crisp Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Bob Marley It is better to live on the house top
    than to live in a house full of confusion
    Song Lyrics Running Away, from the album Kaya
    Bob Marley
    Jamaican singer-songwriter (1945 - 1981)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes It is by no means certain that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps we have cotenants in this house we live in.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Coleman Dowell It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of one's inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness.
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  • Bob Latta It is my privilege to have introduced House Resolution 1612 honoring the Constitution of the United States, and the freedoms and rights it has given to every American.
    Bob Latta
    American politician (1956 - )
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  • Franz Kafka It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet.
    Franz Kafka
    Chech German-speaking writer (1883 - 1924)
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  • Thomas Malthus It is not the most pleasant employment to spend eight hours a day in a counting house.
    Principles of Political Economy (1836) II, I, IX
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Bipasha Basu It is said that anyone who does commercial cinema is not acting, and anyone who does an art film is acting. I don't believe it. I feel whenever you are doing a film, you are acting. So you need to be applauded for that. I won't do art house cinemas. I want to make commercial films. I want my films to make money.
    Bipasha Basu
    Indian film actress and model (1979 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Nancy Reagan It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.
    Nancy Reagan
    American film actress and First Lady (1921 - 2016)
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  • Bobby Sands It lights the dark of this prison cell,
    It thunders forth its might,
    It is 'the undauntable thought', my friend,
    That thought that says 'I'm right!
    The Rhythm of Time
    Bobby Sands
    Irish activist and IRA member (1954 - 1981)
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  • Bob Beauprez It was my privilege to serve with Paul Ryan in the House and on the Ways and Means Committee. Ryan's vast experience and bold, reform-minded ideas were always evident. His knowledge of the federal budget is widely recognized.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Bill Paxton It was so weird that I would end up directing 'The Greatest Game Ever Played,' because, y'know, I'm not a big golfer myself. But I grew up around the game. My mom and dad kind of built their dream house off the 11th fairway of Shady Oaks Country Club in Fort Worth.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • Ann Macbeth It will never be Hollywood, the same way people think it should be. I think it will grow and it will be healthy and it will expand into more than one production house.
    Ann Macbeth
    British embroiderer, designer, teacher and author (1875 - 1948)
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  • Barry Sternlicht It's cheaper to buy a house and finance it than it is to rent in many markets.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Robert Eldridge Willmott Joy and grief are never far apart. In the same street the shutters of one house are closed while the curtains of the next are brushed by the shadows of the dance. A wedding party returns from the church; and a funeral winds to its door. The smiles and
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  • Bill Bryson Just down the road stood a little town, which I shall call Dullard lest the people recognize themselves and take me to court or come to my house and batter me with baseball bats.
    The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-Town America
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Bobby Fischer Kasparov is a gangster, he is a disgrace to chess, he is a disgrace to the human race. He is not something Russia should be proud of. He should join Khodorkovsky in prison. He has committed a terrible fraud with all these prearranged games and matches.
    Radio Interview, May 15 2005 [29]
    Bobby Fischer
    American chess grandmaster (1943 - 2008)
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