Quotes with subject-matter

Quotes 421 till 440 of 700.

  • Germaine Greer Older women can afford to agree that femininity is a charade, a matter of colored hair, ecru lace and whalebones, the kind of slap and tat that transvestites are in love with, and no more.
    Germaine Greer
    Australian writer and public intellectual (1939 - )
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  • Carol Loomis On the rare occasions when my family talked about business, the subject was Kansas City's Boss Pendergast and his potential for muscling my dad's small gravel-and-sand operation.
    Carol Loomis
    American financial journalist (1929 - )
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
    The Sign of the Four (1890) ch. 6
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Lewis Carroll One day Alice came to a fork in the road and saw a Cheshire cat in a tree. Which road do I take? she asked. Where do you want to go? was his response. I don't know, Alice answered. Then, said the cat, it doesn't matter.
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Forest Witcraft One hundred years from now, it will not matter what my bank account was, how big my house was, or what kind of car I drove. But the world may be a little better, because I was important in the life of a child.
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Bailee Madison One of my favorite traditions is that my sisters and I, we all wear the same pajamas. I've even still got some from when I was 6. Also, I'll always remember cooking together in the kitchen and that no matter how busy our schedules are, we are all together for Christmas.
    Bailee Madison
    American actress (1999 - )
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  • Bob Richards One of the great lessons I've learned in athletics is that you've got to discipline your life. No matter how good you may be, you've got to be willing to cut out of your life those things that keep you from going to the top.
    Bob Richards
    American athlete (1926 - )
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  • George Herbert Allen One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope to survive. No matter who you are or what your position is you must keep fighting for whatever it is you desire to achieve.
    George Herbert Allen
    American football coach (1918 - 1990)
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  • Carol Ann Duffy One saw I was alive. Loosened
    his belt. My bowels opened in a ragged gape of fear.
    Between the gap of corpses I could see a child.
    The soldiers laughed. Only a matter of days separate
    this from acts of torture now. They shot her in the eye.
    Standing Female Nude (1985) Shooting Stars
    Carol Ann Duffy
    British poet and playwright (1955 - )
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  • Ayn Rand Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Walter Benjamin Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Thomas Mann Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.
    Thomas Mann
    German author, critic and Nobel laureate in literature (1929) (1875 - 1955)
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  • Katherine Anne Porter Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we could be or do. The potentialities are so great that we never, any of us, are more than one-fourth fulfilled.
    Katherine Anne Porter
    American short-story writer (1890 - 1980)
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  • Francis Chan Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
    Francis Chan
    American writer (1967 - )
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  • Samuel Johnson Pain is less subject than pleasure to careless expression.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Betty Williams Peace in the world is everybody's business, no matter where you live or what you do.
    Betty Williams
    Irish activist (1943 - 2020)
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  • Adam Arkin People can get obsessed with romance, they can get obsessed with political paranoia, they can get obsessed with horror. It's isn't the fault of the subject matter that creates the obsession, I don't think.
    Adam Arkin
    American actor (1956 - )
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  • Annie Dillard People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subject inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.
    Annie Dillard
    American author (1945 - )
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  • Billy Collins People think of poetry as a school subject... Poetry is very frustrating to students because they don't have a taste for ambiguity, for one thing. That gives them a poetry hangover.
    Billy Collins
    American poet (1941 - )
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