Letters Quotes - Page 12

• Busy replying to letters from divers office-seekers. They come by the dozens.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Office, Dozen, Busy

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.512, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.

  Barbara Mertz

  Dream, Ambition, Cutting

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• Woman--with a capital letter--should by now have ceased to be a specialty. There should be no more need of "movements" on her behalf, and agitations for her advancement and developmentthan for the abolition of negro slavery in the United States.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Slavery, Agitation, United States

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• How circumstantial reality is! Facts are like individual letters, with their spikes and loops and thorns, that make up words: eventually they hurt our eyes, and we long to take a bath, to rake the lawn, to look at the sea.

  John Updike

  Hurt, Eye, Reality

  1989 Self-Consciousness, I.'A Soft Spring Night in Shillington'.

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• The bulk of mankind believe in two gods. They are under one dominion here in the house, as friend and parent, in social circles, in letters, in art, in love, in religion; but in mechanics, in dealing with steam and climate, in trade, in politics, they think they come under another.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Believe, Technology

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.265, Penguin

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• You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Family, Eye, Zest

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• that's exactly what climbing is to me. ... Expression. What a painter does on a canvas, what a writer can do with the twenty-six letters in the alphabet. It's the key that unlocks my spirit, the clearest representation of who I am. When I'm focused, climbing is almost an unconscious act for me. I don't have to drive myself, I'm already driven.

  Stacy Allison

  Sports, Climbing, Who I Am

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• Now tell me this. What would you consider the greatest spectator sport in the country today? Would you say it was baseball, basketball, football?... It's politics. That's right, politics. Millions and millions of people following it every day in the newspapers, over the TV and the radio. Now mind you, they wouldn't get mixed up in this themselves for all the tea in China, but they know the names and numbers of all the players. And what they can't tell the coaches about strategy. Oh, you should see some of the letters I get.

  Frank Nugent

  Basketball, Sports, Baseball

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• The FBI is urging all Americans to beware of any letters or packages that have badly misspelled words. Man, this is going to be terrible news for the rap industry.

  Jay Leno

  Rap, Men, News

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• I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody.

  Hank Aaron

  Long, Threat, Fbi

  "Home Run King". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. September 10, 2013.

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• The wonderful fortune of some writers deludes and leads to misery a great number of young people. It cannot be too often repeated that it is dangerous to enter upon a career of letters without some other means of living. An illustrious author has said in these times, "Literature must not be leant on as upon a crutch; it is little more than a stick.

  Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

  Mean, Numbers, Careers

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• I love man-kind, but I hate the institutions of the dead unkind. Men execute nothing so faithfully as the wills of the dead, to the last codicil and letter. They rule this world, and the living are but their executors. Such foundation too have our lectures and our sermons, commonly.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Education, Hate, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.109, Delphi Classics

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• The heroic books, even if printed in the character of our mother tongue, will always be in a language dead to degenerate times; and we must laboriously seek the meaning of each word and line, conjecturing a larger sense than common use permits out of what wisdom and valor and generosity we have. The modern cheap and fertile press, with all its translations, has done little to bring us nearer to the heroic writers of antiquity. They seem as solitary, and the letter in which they are printed as rare and curious, as ever.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Mother, Book, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (1939). “Walden: or, Life in the woods”

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• There are only two words with four letters which can make us fly: Wing and Love.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Love, Wings, Two

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• Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.

  Isabella Rossellini

  Love, Mother, Brother

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• Courtroom for Ted Bundy's trial is packed with women, trying to meet him and give him love letters and wedding-fucking-proposals...and the first thought that enters my mind is, "And I'm not getting laid." What am I doing wrong?

  Bill Hicks

  Kings, Giving, Mind

  "Arizona Bay". Comedy album by Bill Hicks, 1997.

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• I believe in sending a lot of letters and notes to friends.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Believe, Notes, I Believe

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Can you imagine a world in which the letter O does not exist? My name would be Thm Yrke. Think about that.

  Thom Yorke

  Thinking, Names, Doe

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• Back in the 70s and 80s, women felt the discrimination of being overweight. And now 35% of the letters I receive are from men.

  Richard Simmons

  Men, Discrimination, Overweight

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• I receive a lot of letters on tour, and read about a lot of people hurting.

  Alex Gaskarth

  Hurt, People

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• Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power of a wafer or a drop of wax or gluten to guard a letter, as it flies over sea over land and comes to its address as if a battalion of artillery brought it, I look upon as a fine meter of civilization.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Religious, Sea, Land

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.434, Harvard University Press

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• Books are just dead words on paper and it is the readers who bring the stories alive. Previously, writers wrote a book and sent it out into the world. A couple of months after publication letters from readers might arrive. And, leaving aside the professional reviews, it is really the reader's opinions that the writer needs. They vote for a book - and a writer - with their hard earned cash every time they go into a bookstore (or online - that's my age showing!) and buy a book.

  Michael Scott

  Couple, Book, Leaving

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• Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.

  John Elkington

  Real, Keys, Offering

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• My name came from me wanting a 'double-letter' artist name. In search of the ultimate L-word to put in front of my real name Luke, I heard Snoop Dogg rapping in Gin and Juice 'Laaaaiiidbackk...' and I was sold!

  Laidback Luke

  Real, Rap, Artist

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• I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I'm so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.

  Betty White

  Blessed, Acting, Able

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