Warts Quotes - Page 3

• Whether at home or abroad, the task of statesman is to work with human nature warts and all, and to draw on instincts and even prejudices that can be turned to good purpose. It is never to try to recreate Mankind in a new image.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Home, Trying, Prejudice

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• A Noah's Ark of mathematicians, their lives, loves, hard times, and madnesses, Loving and Hating Mathematics shows our community with all its warts as well as its triumphs. I especially liked the chapter on much-hated school mathematics, 'Almost All Children Left Behind.'

  David Mumford

  Children, Hate, School

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• In front of the coffee tablethere is a neon-pink stump stool, which I bought because my friend Amanda Brooks told me that every house has to have a 'wart,' or one really ugly piece.

  Lauren Santo Domingo

  Coffee, House, Pieces

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• Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.

  Ilka Chase

  Men, Hands, Names

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• Here we write well when we expose frauds and hypocrites. We are great at counting warts and blemishes and weighting feet of clay. In expressing love, we belong among the underdeveloped countries.

  Saul Bellow

  Country, Writing, Hypocrite

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• If you happen to have a wart on your nose or forehead, you cannot help imagining that no one in the world has anything else to do but stare at your wart, laugh at it, and condemn you for it, even though you have discovered America.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  America, Laughing, Noses

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• Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Each Day, Television, Might

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• Like no other writer in contemporary American literature, Brock Clarke has a way of looking at us, I mean looking straight at us--warts, lots of warts, and beauty and hypocrisy and love, too, the gamut. And hes done it again in this brilliant The Happiest People in the World, a novel that is as hilarious and thought-provoking as it is ultimately, deadly, deadly serious. I for one am grateful hes out there--watching our every move.

  Peter Orner

  Moving, Grateful, Mean

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• Too many historical writers are the votaries of cults, which, by definition are dedicated to whitewashing warts and hanging halos.

  Thomas A. Bailey

  History, Historical, Halos

  Thomas A. Bailey (1969). “Essays Diplomatic and Undiplomatic of Thomas A. Bailey”, p.15, Ardent Media

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• You have to trust your government. Don't let every scar, every wart, every hiccup condemn the whole body.

  Salman Khurshid

  Government, Hiccups, Body

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• Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more nervous and imaginative. He could imagine the effect of each blow that was aimed at him, and this weakened his defense. Wart was only an infuriated hurricane.

  T. H. White

  Blow, Winning, Defense

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.75, Penguin

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• I think I ought to have some eddication,"said the Wart, "I can't think of anything to do.

  T. H. White

  Thinking, Said, I Can

  T. H. White (2011). “The Once and Future King”, p.64, Penguin

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• "Well, we were always going to fail that one," said Ron gloomily as they ascended the marble staircase. He had just made Harry feel rather better by telling him how he told the examiner in detail about the ugly man with a wart on his nose in the crystal ball, only to look up and realize he had been describing the examiner's reflection.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Men, Details

  "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix". Book by J. K. Rowling, June 21, 2003.

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• Ron," said Hermione in a dignified voice, "you are the most insensitive wart I have ever had the misfortune to meet.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Hermione, Said

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