Devoted Quotes - Page 10

• Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

  Matt Groening

  Fans, Lines, Quoting

  Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. April 26, 2006.

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• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  Samuel Gompers

  Men, Race, Labor Day

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• I think I know why you never married, Sarah." "Well, and I reckoned if I wanted something that'd come and go as he pleased, take me for granted, and ignore me when he chose, I'd get a cat. And if I wanted something I'd always have to be picking up after, getting into trouble, but slavishly devoted, I'd get a dog.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Dog, Cat, Thinking

  Mercedes Lackey (2005). “Phoenix and Ashes: Elemental Masters #3”, p.132, Penguin

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• ...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

  Tori Amos

  Healing, Scar, Has Beens

  Tori Amos, Ann Powers (2008). “Tori Amos: Piece by Piece”, p.154, Crown Archetype

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• I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

  Lady Gaga

  Thinking, Parent, Littles

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• I am as devoted to adventure now as then, and that’s never going to stop.

  William Goldman

  Adventure

  William Goldman (2013). “The Princess Bride”, p.17, A&C Black

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• So we have neighbors to bless, children to protect, the poor to lift up, and the truth to defend. We have wrongs to make right, truths to share, and good to do. In short, we have a life of devoted discipleship to give in demonstrating our love of the Lord. We can’t quit and we can’t go back.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Children, Giving, Our Love

  "The First Great Commandment". Jeffrey R. Holland's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. October 2012.

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• Life could not be entirely devoted to debauchery and monkeys. Magnus had to finance all the drinking somehow.

  Cassandra Clare

  Drinking, Monkeys, Debauchery

  Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan (2013). “What Really Happened in Peru”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Twice I have testified in congress that unbiased funding on the subject of the causes of warming would be much closer to a reality if 50% of that money was devoted to finding natural reasons for climate change.

  Roy Spencer

  Reality, Climate, Would Be

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• Each day should be devoted to miracles. The purpose of time is to enable you to
  learn how to use time constructively.
  It is thus a teaching device and a means to an end.
  Time will cease when it is no longer useful in facilitating learning.

  Kenneth Wapnick

  Teaching, Mean, Miracle

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• The nation must to a degree take it on faith that we, too, are honorable men devoted to her service.

  Richard Helms

  Men, Honorable Man, Degrees

  Address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 14 April 1971.

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• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

  Joseph Conrad

  Nature, Intelligent, Revolutionary Leaders

  Under Western Eyes pt. 2, ch. 3 (1911)

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• The devoted golfer is an anguished soul who has learned a lot about putting, just as an avalanche victim has learned a lot about snow.

  Dan Jenkins

  Golf, Snow, Soul

  Dan Jenkins (2015). “DOGGED VICTIMS OF INEXORABLE FATE”, p.36, Simon and Schuster

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• For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

  Jimmy Carter

  Life, Spiritual, Patriotic

  "President, peacemaker, peanut farmer". www.cnn.com. October 11, 2002.

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• I've lost track of where friendship ends and falling begins. (this is the foolish refrain of the hopelessly devoted.) there are times I want to kiss you midsentence. undo the not-doing with one gesture.

  David Levithan

  Fall, Kissing, Track

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.55, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Former vice president Al Gore has devoted his post-administration years to a mission to tell the world about global warming. It's funny, but in his civilian life Gore has discovered the voice that voters had trouble hearing when he ran for president in 2000. The voice he has found is clear, impassioned, and moving.

  Graydon Carter

  Moving, Voice, Years

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  Warren Buffett

  Business, Investing Money, Investment Success

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.118, John Wiley & Sons

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• In the old world, you devoted 30% of your time to building a great service and 70% of your time to shouting about it. In the new world, that inverts

  Jeff Bezos

  Motivation, Educational, World

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• At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later I devoted less time to ballet, but every workout of mine included training in choreography.

  Natalia Yurchenko

  Workout, Gymnastics, Two

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• At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him.

  Martin Luther

  Friday, Devil, Lasts

  Martin Luther (1862). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”, p.321

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• Our educational results lag behind other states, and other nations, but worse still, behind the potential of the kids and the devoted teachers in our classrooms.

  Mitch Daniels

  Teacher, Educational, Kids

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• The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wisdom, Time, Work

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.99, Penguin

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• I'm a devoted husband. That must strike you as totally deviant.

  Iain Banks

  Husband, Strikes, Deviants

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• I've always really just liked football, and I've always devoted a lot of time to it. If it is 11 against 10 then you have almost no chance of stopping him.

  Arda Turan

  Football, Stopping, Chance

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• I am deeply devoted to the 27,000 songs I can take anywhere on my iPod Classic as well as the exquisitely engineered MacBook Air on which I typed this column.

  Eric Alterman

  Song, Air, Ipods

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