Pockets Quotes

• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

  John Rzeznik

  Regret

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

  Jim Bishop

  Fall, Autumn, Gold

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• And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

  Charles Dickens

  Uncles, Believe, Gold

  Charles Dickens (1858). “A Christmas Carol”, p.6

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• He gave her his heart. She took it and placed it quietly in the pocket of her gown. No one observed what she did.

  Susanna Clarke

  Heart, Gowns

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.464, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Keep all ur troubles in ur own pocket. But, make sure that the pocket has a hole!

  Robert Frost

  Trouble, Holes

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• Must protect my little pockets of happiness.

  Sara Gruen

  Littles, Protect

  Sara Gruen (2016). “The Sara Gruen Collection: Water for Elephants - At the Water's Edge - Ape House”, p.243, Hachette UK

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• You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

  John Adams

  Life And Love, Poetry, Liberty

  Letter to John Quincy Adams, 14 May 1781

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• His smile was the nightmare in my back pocket.(Speaking about Ronald Reagan)

  William Gibson

  Nightmare, His Smile

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• Hope is a pocket of possibility.
  I'm holding it in my hand.

  Tahereh Mafi

  Hands, Possibility

  Tahereh Mafi (2014). “Shatter Me Complete Collection: Shatter Me, Destroy Me, Unravel Me, Fracture Me, Ignite Me”, p.50, Harper Collins

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• Don't put the key to your happiness in someone else's pocket

  Chinmayananda Saraswati

  Keys, Key To Happiness

  "Quotations From Gurudev's Writings". Collected by Chinmaya Mission, Chicago, www.mychinmaya.org.

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• Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

  Mark Twain

  Writing, Hands, Looks

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• President Obama is also standing up for women in North Carolina and across our country. He has helped women fight for equal pay for equal work; he has fought to guarantee that women have access to quality, affordable health care, including making sure that insurance plans cover birth control with no out-of-pocket cost.

  Bev Perdue

  Country, Fighting, Equal Pay

  "Gov. Bev Perdue DNC 2012 speech". www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality

  Victor Hugo

  Reality, Found

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• The deeper your belief, the deeper your pockets.

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Belief, Deeper

  Jeffrey Gitomer, Jeffrey H. Gitomer (2007). “Jeffrey Gitomer's Little Platinum Book of Cha-ching!: 32.5 Strategies to Ring Your Own (cash) Register of Business and Personal Success”, Ft Press

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• We need enormous pockets, pockets big enough for our families and our friends, and even the people who aren't on our lists, people we've never met but still want to protect. We need pockets for boroughs and for cities, a pocket that could hold the universe.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Cities, People, Needs

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Money is always there but the pockets change.

  Gertrude Stein

  Funny, Money

  Gertrude Stein (2013). “Wars I Have Seen”, p.31, Random House

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• Poverty is not what's in your pocket - its what you have in your head.

  John Hope Bryant

  Poverty

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• Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Failure, Funny Graduation, Ladders

  "Six Rules on How to Be Successful". Speech at the University of Southern California, www.graduationwisdom.com. May 15, 2009.

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• An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.

  Emil Zatopek

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Quoted by Christopher Brasher in the Observer,12 Sep 1982.

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• When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Time, Hundred, Thrive

  Friedrich Nietzsche, R. J. Hollingdale (1996). “Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits”, p.183, Cambridge University Press

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• I dreamt we walked together along the shore. We made satisfying small talk and laughed. This morning I found sand in my shoe and a seashell in my pocket. Was I only dreaming?

  Maya Angelou

  Dream, Morning, Shoes

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• I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.

  John Lennon

  Book, Paper, Stuff

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• Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

  "MIT Students Develop A Wearable That Detects Emotions In Speech" by Logan Strain, wearablezone.com. February 09, 2017.

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• Empty pockets make empty heads.

  William Carlos Williams

  Poverty, Empty, Empty Pockets

  William Carlos Williams, A. Walton Litz, Christopher MacGowan (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams: 1939-1962”, p.88, New Directions Publishing

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