Dues Quotes - Page 37

• Mass communication--wonder as it may be technologically and something to be appreciated and valued--presents us wit a serious daner, the danger of conformism, due to the fact that we all view the same things at the same time in all the cities of the country. (p. 73)

  Rollo May

  Country, Communication, Views

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• With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

  David Levithan

  Three, Fetus, Forty

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• Lisa's baby was due about now. I've decided she had it and it was a girl. I've named her Rachel.

  Susan Beth Pfeffer

  Girl, Baby, Decided

  Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.229, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Boys, Men, Dying

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• That the reason why they are not fallen already and do not fall now is only that God's appointed time is not come. For it is said, that when that due time, or appointed time comes, their foot shall slide. Then they shall be left to fall, as they are inclined by their own weight. God will not hold them up in these slippery places any longer, but will let them go; and then, at that very instant, they shall fall into destruction; as he that stands on such slippery declining ground, on the edge of a pit, he cannot stand alone, when he is let go he immediately falls and is lost.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Letting Go, Fall, Feet

  Jonathan Edwards a. M., Jonathan Edwards (2012). “Jonathan Edwards in the Pulpit: Famous Sermons”, p.144, Curiosmith

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• The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Errors, May

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.67, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Goodwin scowled at her cup. "With all due respect, my lord, I hate it when you make sense.

  Tamora Pierce

  Hate, Cups, Lord

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.356, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.

  Karl Pilkington

  Men, Cameras, Sound

  Karl Pilkington (2010). “An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington”, p.67, Canongate Books

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• Be sure don't let people's telling you, you are pretty, puff you up; for you did not make yourself, and so can have no praise due to you for it. It is virtue and goodness only, that make the true beauty.

  Samuel Richardson

  People, True Beauty, Puff

  Samuel Richardson (2015). “Pamela Volume 1: Samuel Richardson Collections”, p.9, 谷月社

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• More is happening out there than we are aware of. It is possibly due to some unknown direful circumstance.

  Edward Gorey

  Circumstances, Happenings

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• Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

  Anne Lamott

  Brother, Father, Book

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, Anchor

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• Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame.

  William Shakespeare

  Blame

  William Shakespeare (1833). “The plays and poems of William Shakspeare”, p.542

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• But even friendship like our heroes' Exist no more; for we've outgrown All sentiments and deem men zeroes-- Except of course ourselves alone. We all take on Napoleon's features, And millions of our fellow creatures Are nothing more to us than tools... Since feelings are for freaks and fools. Eugene, of course, had keen perceptions And on the whole despised mankind, Yet wasn't, like so many, blind; And since each rule permits exceptions, He did respect a noble few, And, cold himself, gave warmth its due.

  Alexander Pushkin

  Hero, Men, Feelings

  Alexander Pushkin (1998). “Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse”, p.41, OUP Oxford

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• The first couple of times, he simply stayed - a stranger to kill the aloneness. A few nights after that, he whispered “Shhh, I’m here, its alright.” After three weeks, he held her. Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man’s gentleness, his thereness.

  Markus Zusak

  Couple, Night, Men

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• Kira, the highest thing in man is not his god. It's that in him which knows the reverence due a god. And you, Kira, are my highest reverence.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Kira, Reverence

  Ayn Rand (2009). “We the Living”, p.316, Penguin

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• Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or the alarm." She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. "You're due for an upgrade." Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her. "She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here.

  Ally Carter

  Alarms, Pockets, Naked

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• People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Prayer, People, Would Be

  KURT VONNEGUT, JR (1969). “SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE”

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• His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed.

  Victor Hugo

  Heart, Men, Compassion

  Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr

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• My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here’s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier, Charles Knight (1847). “Romeo and Juliet. Othello. Hamlet. Macbeth. King Lear. Cymbeline. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus. Julius Caesar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Troilus and Cressida. Titus Andronicus. Pericles”

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• It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.

  Mark Helprin

  Country, Storm, Speech

  Mark Helprin (2005). “Freddy and Fredericka”, p.313, Penguin

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• J.T Woodland, known as “the cute one” in The Corporation’s seventh-grade boy band, Boyz Will B Boyz. Due to the success of their triple-platinum hit, “Let Me Shave Your Legs Tonight, Girl,” Boyz Will B Boyz ruled the charts for a solid eleven months before hitting puberty and losing ground to Hot Vampire Boyz.

  Libba Bray

  Cute, Girl, Boys

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• The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers." "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch.” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend.

  Josh Lanyon

  Ex Boyfriend, Phones, Voice

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• Jonah peered critically up at the Renaissance masterpiece. "Man, those copies don't due it justice. This one's the truth!" "Only a Janus," groaned Hamilton.

  Gordon Korman

  Men, Justice, Renaissance

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• Never attribute to malevolence what is merely due to incompetence

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Incompetence, Attributes, Malevolence

  Arthur C. Clarke (2012). “3001: The Final Odyssey”, p.155, RosettaBooks

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• It was a quiet way - He asked if I was his - I made no answer of the tongue But answer of the eyes - And then He bore me on Before this mortal noise With swiftness, as of Chariots and distance, as of Wheels. This World did drop away As acres from the feet of one that leaneth from Balloon Upon an Ether Street. The Gulf behind was not, The Continents were new - Eternity was due. No Seasons were to us - It was not Night nor Morn - But Sunrise stopped upon the place And Fastened in Dawn.

  Emily Dickinson

  Distance, Eye, Night

  Emily Dickinson (1998). “The Poems of Emily Dickinson”, p.743, Harvard University Press

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