Quotes with up-their-own-butt

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  • Betty Wright All of my babies know that I preach all day... I ain't trying to hide no light under no bushel. Everybody needs a little light in their life, and when they need prayer, they know where to come because they know I love them all, and I ain't judging nobody.
    Betty Wright
    American singer (1953 - 2020)
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  • Peter Kline All of us, you, your children, your neighbors and their children are everyday geniuses, even though the fact is unnoticed and unremembered by everyone. That's probably because school hasn't encouraged us to notice what's hidden inside us waiting for the right environment to express itself.
    Peter Kline
     
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  • Ernest Hemingway All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Anna Quindlen All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.
    Anna Quindlen
    American author and journalist (1952 - )
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  • John Arbuthnot All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.
    John Arbuthnot
    Scottish physician, satirist and polymath (1667 - 1735)
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  • Robert Collier All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Cesare Pavese All sins have their origin in a sense of inferiority otherwise called ambition.
    Cesare Pavese
    Italian writer and poet (1908 - 1950)
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  • Arnold H. Glasgow All some folks want is their fair share and yours.
    Arnold H. Glasgow
    American editor and businessman (Born as Arnold Henry Glasow) (1905 - 1998)
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  • Camille Paglia All the genres of philosophy, science, high art, athletics and politics were invented by men. But by the Promethean law of conflict and capture, woman has a right to seize what she will and vie with man on her own terms.
    Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Bennet Omalu All the NFL players I have examined pathologically, I have not seen one that did not have changes in their brain system with brain damage.
    Bennet Omalu
    Nigerian-American physician and neuropathologist (1968 - )
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  • George Orwell All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Carl Gustav Jung All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
    Carl Gustav Jung
    Swiss psychiatrist (1875 - 1961)
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  • C. S. Lewis All their life in this world and all their adventures in Narnia had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before.
    Source: The Chronicles of Narnia (1950) The Last Battle (1956), Closing lines, in Ch. 16 :
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • James Joyce All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.
    James Joyce
    Irish writer (1882 - 1941)
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  • Dorothy Parker All those writers who write about their childhood! Gentle God, if I wrote about mine you wouldn't sit in the same room with me.
    Dorothy Parker
    American humoristic writer (1893 - 1967)
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  • Abdurrahman Wahid All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.
    Abdurrahman Wahid
    Indonesian politican and Muslim leader (1940 - 2009)
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  • Laurence Sterne All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we hit the mark.
    Laurence Sterne
    British author (1713 - 1768)
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  • George Orwell All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Ernest Hemingway All you can be sure about in a political-minded writer is that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as a form of the pursuit of happiness.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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