Quotes with subject-matter

Quotes 661 till 680 of 700.

  • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself when dying. Never.
    Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
    French writer (1900 - 1944)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When the impossibility has been eliminated, whatever remains, no matter how improbable... is possible.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Audre Lorde When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.
    Audre Lorde
    American writer, feminist, womanist, librarian, and civil (1934 - 1992)
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  • Charles Dickens When you're a married man, Samivel, you'll understand a good many things as you don't understand now; but whether it's worth while, going through so much, to learn so little, as the charity-boy said when he got to the end of the alphabet, is a matter o taste.
    Charles Dickens
    English writer (1812 - 1870)
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  • Duffy Daugherty When your are playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that.
    Duffy Daugherty
    American football player and coach (1915 - 1987)
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  • Anselm Kiefer When, at the end of the 1960s, I became interested in the Nazi era, it was a taboo subject in Germany. No one spoke about it anymore, no more in my house than anywhere else.
    Anselm Kiefer
    German painter and sculptor (1945 - )
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  • Anthony J. D'Angelo Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
    Anthony J. D'Angelo
    American writer
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  • Ann Coulter Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America. They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant.
    Ann Coulter
    American far-right media pundit and author (1961 - )
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  • Benigno Aquino III While I accept that there are certain things about my private life that will always be of interest to the public, it would be better if you give the same amount of attention to issues that matter as well.
    Benigno Aquino III
    Filipino politician (1960 - )
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  • Amos Bronson Alcott While one finds company in himself and his pursuits, he cannot feel old, no matter what his years may be.
    Amos Bronson Alcott
    American educator and social reformer (1799 - 1888)
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  • Bill Simmons Why should it matter to us when wrestlers are found dead in their beds or seen limping around on two fake hips? Why should it matter to us that there's a list of modern wrestlers who died before the age of 50 - many of them famous - and that the list is more than 70 names long? Hey, there's always another wave of guys on the way. Always.
    Bill Simmons
    American sports analyst and author (1969 - )
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  • Lewis Carroll Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here? ''That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.'' Said the Cat. I don't much care where - Said Alice. Then it doesn't matter which way you go, said the Cat.
    Source: Alice in wonderland
    Lewis Carroll
    British Writer, Mathematician (1832 - 1898)
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  • Joan Didion Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
    Source:  (2006)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Malcolm X Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it.
    Malcolm X
    American activist (1925 - 1965)
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  • Friedrich von Schiller Yes great people are always subject to persecution and always getting into straits.
    Friedrich von Schiller
    German poet and playwright (1759 - 1805)
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  • Bob Geldof You can't trust politicians. It doesn't matter who makes a political speech. It's all lies - and it applies to any rock star who wants to make a political speech as well.
    Bob Geldof
    Irish singer-songwriter, author, political activist (1951 - )
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  • Bunker Roy You come for the money, you don't come to Barefoot College. You come for the work and the challenge, you'll come to the Barefoot College. That is where we want you to try crazy ideas. Whatever idea you have, come and try it. It doesn't matter if you fail. Battered, bruised, you start again.
    Bunker Roy
    Indian social activist and educator (1945 - )
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  • Larry Mcmurtry You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. Hold the philosophy, hold the adjectives, just give us a plain subject and verb and perhaps a wholesome, nonfattening adverb or two.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Abraham Lincoln You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Jack Youngblood You learnt that, whatever you are doing in life, obstacles don't matter very much. Pain or other circumstances can be there, but if you want to do a job bad enough, you'll find a way to get it done.
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