Miscellaneous Quotes - Page 10

• Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Witty, Government

  The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet preface (1911)

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• I carry around a notebook that is equal parts day planner and journal. Every morning, I check to see what the agenda for the day is, and if there isn't a plan, I make one. I strive to fill the rest of the page with miscellaneous thoughts and ideas and go back through and fill sparse pages as well. If I start skipping days, I know I'm off course and need to take a step back and ground my life.

  Kit Williamson

  Notebook, Morning, Ideas

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• Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand.

  Chevy Chase

  Hands, People, Lasts

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• I am feeling razor-sharp. Training sessions are really good. I feel that I am in peak condition. I know that I am ready for action.

  David Ginola

  Feelings, Training, Razors

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• What is moral is what you feel good after.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Feel Good, Afternoon, Ethics And Morals

  Death in the Afternoon ch. 1 (1932)

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• People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

  Thomas Sowell

  Leadership, Teamwork, Live Life

  Thomas Sowell (2006). “Ever Wonder Why? and Other Controversial Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• Absence of proof is not proof of absence.

  William Cowper

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• We haven't got a plan so nothing can go wrong!

  Spike Milligan

  Humour, Plans, Havens

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• One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?

  Spike Milligan

  Funny, Humor, One Day

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• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Men, Personal Growth

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• I want to feel good, I want to feel proud, I want to feel that I give someone enough and that I get enough.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Giving, Feel Good, Want

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• We’re never gonna understand women. They’re way too complex. You’ve got too many variables to consider. PMS, bad hair days, miscellaneous mood swings . . . there’s no way to tell what’s causing their attitude. - Mike

  Susane Colasanti

  Attitude, Hair, Swings

  Susane Colasanti (2008). “When It Happens”, p.176, Penguin

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• It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid interests and the fiercest passions of mean confedes.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Passion, Mean, Political

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• Nowhere else can one find so miscellaneous, so various, an amount of knowledge as is contained in a good newspaper.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Knowledge, Newspapers, Various

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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• Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade.

  Noel Coward

  Witty, Writing, Caviar

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• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.

  Winston Churchill

  Motivational, Leadership, Beautiful

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• Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.

  Mary McCarthy

  Witty, Eye, Past

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  1987 Interview, ABC TV, 18 Mar.

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• It had been the longest time since she had had a rib-scraping laugh. She had forgotten how deep and down it could be. So different from the miscellaneous giggles and smiles she had learned to be content with these past few years.

  Toni Morrison

  Past, Years, Laughing

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• I do believe there is many a tear in the heart that never reaches the eyes.

  Norman MacEwen

  Believe, Heart, Eye

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• The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.

  Joseph LeConte

  Inspirational, Character, Essentials

  Joseph LeConte (1896). “Evolution: Its Nature, Its Evidences, and Its Relation to Religious Thought”

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• Go to the people. Learn from them. Live with them. Start with what they know. Build with what they have. The best of leaders when the job is done, when the task is accomplished, the people will say we have done it ourselves.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Leadership, Jobs

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• As the gardener, by severe pruning, forces the sap of the tree into one or two vigorous limbs, so should you stop off your miscellaneous activity and concentrate your force on one or a few points.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Motivational, Two, Tree

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• A flower without a stem, is beauty waiting to die. A heart without love, is a tear waiting to cry.

  Octavio Paz

  Flower, Heart, Love Is

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