Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
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Books wont stay banned. They wont burn. Ideas wont go to jail. In the long run of history, the censo...
ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD When you will, they wont, when you wont, they will.
TERENCE PUBLIUS TERENTIUS AFER Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the ce...
ALFRED WHITNEY GRISWOLD Be as thou wast wont to be.
See as thou wast wont to see.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I wont be labeled as average
RACHEL JOY SCOTT We had missteps that we wont repeat.
ASAKO MIYATA I wont eat anything green
KURT COBAIN Nature is wont to hide herself.
HERACLITUS We wont get something without giving something,
We wont give something without getting something,
an...
LIONY LUMOMBO VON TIRAMISU Be as thou wast wont to be.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. in the long run of history, the ce...
WHITNEY GRISWOLD Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
GEORGE HERBERT Wine is wont to show the mind of man.
THEOGNIS We wont refuse someone a ride if they don't take the survey,
PATRICK COOK I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.
EURIPIDES Love is giving someone the power to break ur heart... but trusting them that they wont
JASON MRAZ He who finds Fortune on his side should go briskly ahead, for she is wont to favor the bold.
BALTASAR GRACIAN No, he wont understand! People with guns don't understand! That's why they have guns... to many misu...
JERRY SEINFELD Sir Amice Pawlet, when he saw too much haste made in any matter, was wont to say, "Stay a while, tha...
FRANCIS BACON SR. Wont to unlearn from history, we aptly repeat even its most brazen mistakes.
ESKINDER NEGA As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) My life is so empty, that even death doesn't wont to take me!
JOHN ZEA You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed h...
BIBLE But, as it has been our wont this year, we have one bad quarter and it came in the third quarter.
JOHN PETERSON You Cannot Fly Like An Eagle If You Wont Stretch Your Wings!
GEORGE M. ETHERIDGE If your doing Gods will , you wont have time to do as you will
TIPSON N MOKGOPHA If you dont get what you want,you wont want what you get.
KENNETH ELLIOTT HUDSON If you don't believe in 5 seconds then you wont in 5 minutes.
TABISH AHMED SHAH If you let me troll you today, i gladly wont troll you tuesday!
STEVEN REYNAGA A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
RUDYARD KIPLING I wont the world to hear me out but the worlds deaf and i am mute.
NOMAN QAYYUM If you cant believe my first word, then my last words wont make sense to you...
OLASOT Running from your problems wont put food on your table. Unsolved problems block your opportunities.
NERISSA IRVING As the hawk is wont to pursue the trembling doves.
[Lat., Ut solet accipiter trepidas agitare colu...
OVID (PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO) When having Problem You Smile. It wont lessened Your Problem But Give You Courage To face It!
RAMEESHA SHEIKH A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
RUDYARD KIPLING The only reason you wont let go of what is making you sad is because it was the only thing that made...
OMAR ASHRAF EZZELDIN Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They ar...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU BEING WITH SOMEONE THAT WONT LOVE YOU THE WAY YOU NEED TO BE LOVED IS WORSE THAN BEING ALONE.
ERIC LEE MCKINNEY You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.
RUTH ELLIS Though you be absent here, I needs must say / The trees as beauteous are, and flowers as gay, / As e...
ABRAHAM COWLEY sometimes its hard to distinguish the weeds from the daisys but it wont be long before you find your...
AINE LEECH people judge you from what they hear and what others tell them, they wont take time to learn about y...
MARIAM My Hopes are so High that your Kiss might Kill me So wont you Kill me So I die Happy.
DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL Your sheep, that were wont to be so meek and tame and so small eaters, now, as I hear say, be become...
THOMAS MORE It is the very error of the moon;She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,And drives men mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you know the right answers long enough people wont notice when you make up the ones you don't.
ENMANUEL SELLA YERMENOS If men are wont to play with swearing anywhere, can we expect they should be serious and strict ther...
ISAAC BARROW I wont let a wife lead me to the altar. [I will not have a wife
that shall be my master.]
UNKNOWN Fear and dull disposition, luke warmness and sloth, are not seldom wont to cloak themselves under th...
JOHN MILTON The films that I really enjoy now are films that are made by, for wont of a better word, mavericks.
PETER MULLAN I wont cry, it'll be fine. I'll take my last breath. Push it out my chest 'til there's nothing left.
HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD Firelight will not let you read fine stories but its warm and you wont see the dust on the floor.
IRISH PROVERB You may have been broken before and hurt and cheated,but please know this I'm here now,I'm here to f...
NICKOLI LEE ALLEN D'AVANZO When People Want To Impress Someone By Not Being Themselves It Wont Work, because You Have To Be You...
ANTONY VENGERVOSKIY It is the very error of the moon: She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, and makes men mad.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE love is when you cant control it. No matter how much your try and tell yourself to stop, your heart ...
RACHEL LYNNE When I'm not afraid to fail, I wont. When I'm not afraid to fall down, falling down won't feel like ...
JAN DENISE Singletary's a big shot-maker and so is Reynolds. It's sort of, 'Pick your poison. As has been our w...
SKIP PROSSER Singletary's a big shot-maker and so is Reynolds. It's sort of, 'Pick your poison.' As has been our ...
SKIP PROSSER One of the Seven was wont to say: "That laws were like cobwebs;
where the small flies were caught,...
FRANCIS BACON He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other ...
JOHN AUBREY Folly is wont to have more followers and comrades than
discretion.
[Sp., Mas acompanados y panigu...
CERVANTES (MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA) Know your worth and love yourself in such a way that anyone who is no good for you, wont be able to ...
NIKKI ROWE You need to be feel beautiful on your own before a guy can make you feel beautiful, because it wont ...
MEGAN PARK To admire nothing, (as most are wont to do;)
Is the only method that I know,
To make men happy...
THOMAS CREECH Olivia. Your marriage wont last. Tell Noah the truth; be fair. when you do, come find me, and ill gi...
TARRYN FISHER Zombies have no memories of their former life. You wont see the undead trying to wash windows or do ...
MAX BROOKS Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out...
DAVID NICHOLLS While gripinge grefes ye hart would wounde,
And dolefulle domps ye mynde oppresse,
There music...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS PERE Life is uncertain and death is unknown, so forget your past and stick with the present cause you won...
MATTHEW WAYNE GAULIN Racism is essentially natural, it's old fashioned it's an evolutionary phase that we're ...
MICHAEL HUTCHENCE You are letting this feeling get cold, I cant blame you, you must know you are free to go... Don't y...
ANDRES OLIVER (Bush) said we wont stop until victory, but what does victory look like and how many sons and daught...
BURT COHEN That eagle's fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espied a feather of...
EDMUND WALLER That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his o...
EDMUND WALLER Lie ten nights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to speak plain and to the pu...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I think we have a fascinating new and quite dominant input into politics - and it wont go away. From...
JIM BOLGER The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along...
BARACK OBAMA Do you see how the god always hurls his bolts at the greatest houses and the tallest trees. For he i...
HERODOTUS His reputation precedes him, as it is wont to do for shady characters. But this year, I've found him...
SEAN PATTERSON He's a big shot-maker at the end of the game. So is Reynolds. You've sort of got to pick your poison...
SKIP PROSSER I am really astonished at the amount of work we do. The only trouble here, they wont [sic] let us st...
ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS It was the wont of the immortal gods sometimes to grant prosperity and long impunity to men whose cr...
JULIUS CAESAR Throughout life you will meet one person who is unlike any other, you could talk to this person for ...
AUTHOR UNKNOWN On desperate seas long wont to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy naiad airs have ...
EDGAR ALLAN POE He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at
those who, after thirty years of a...
TACITUS (CAIUS CORNELIUS TACITUS) Demand your respect. Know what you want out of a man so he can manifest and become it... But that wo...
NERISSA IRVING If you choose great language and truthfully inspirational thinking you never have meaningfulness liv...
JAMES WOOD Do you know something about whining? People who whines a lot is like a sitting on a lazy chair, it m...
ALI-AZRI HASSAN I think the world offers so many wonderful varieties of obstacles, but that shouldn't be one for...
DREW BARRYMORE Driver wont return any phone calls. Mark always returns calls within about 10 minutes. When we first...
LARRY MIX Relax. You're in good hands. Tabby wont hurt you.
She stabbed me!
Damn! I told...
SHERRILYN KENYON Carolus V, Emperor of Rome, was wont to say that the Hispanic tongue was seemly for converse with Go...
MIKHAIL LOMONOSOV Translating this to the spiritual regions as their wont is, the poets sang beautifully how roses fad...
VIRGINIA WOOLF A word to the unwise.
Torch every book.
Char every page.
Burn every word to ash.
ELLEN HOPKINS Censorship is the child of fear and the father of ignorance.
LAURIE HALSE ANDERSON Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave m...
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CHARLES GRISWOLD Literally millions of specimens have been collected. There will be many more new species of spiders.
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DAN GRISWOLD This is nine parts politics, one part legitimate concerns about national security.
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DANIEL GRISWOLD Pete Wilson set back the Republican Party in California.
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DAN GRISWOLD This would be a tax increase on low and middle-income Americans.
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DAN GRISWOLD reach out in prayer and tangible support to our brothers and sisters as they live through these over...
FRANK GRISWOLD [In the DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES, Bishop J. Jon Bruno lost the first round in a property fight with St...
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FRANK GRISWOLD They will probably carry these friendships into high school.
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ALFRED For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Always make the audience suffer as much as possible.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Revenge is sweet and not fattening.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Some of our most exquisite murders have been domestic, performed with tenderness in simple, homey pl...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Even at drama school if there was a part of some eastern European thug it would be me.
ALFRED MOLINA When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.
ALFRED EISENSTAEDT I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK If I have a thousand ideas and only one turns out to be good, I am satisfied.
ALFRED NOBEL No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, ...
ALFRED ADLER Theirs not to reason why,
Theirs but to do and die
ALFRED TENNYSON I think it would be a problem if Hollywood was casting British actors only as villains; if that were...
ALFRED MOLINA My most profound confidence is however based upon the fact that at the head of Germany there stands ...
ALFRED JODL Major markets are a key factor in advertise and budgeting decisions.
ALFRED AMOROSO Television is like the American toaster, you push the button and the same thing pops up everytime.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN Dawn was breaking, like the light from another world.
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ALFRED POLGAR It is conventional to call 'monster' any blending of dissonant elements. I call 'monster...
ALFRED JARRY It needs courage to let our children go, but we are trustees and stewards and have to hand them back...
ALFRED TORRIE The heart bow'd down by weight of woe,
To weakest hope will cling,
To thought and impulse whil...
ALFRED BUNN The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a ...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.
ALFRED SHEINWOLD Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.
ALFRED TENNYSON ... everything based on arguments involving the ''is'' of identidy and the older el (elementalistic)...
ALFRED KORZYBSKI Hope
Smiles from the threshold of the year to come,
Whispering 'it will be happier'...
ALFRED TENNYSON If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever.
ALFRED TENNYSON A lie that is half-truth is the darkest of all lies.
ALFRED TENNYSON We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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ALFRED JARRY Puns are the highest form of literature.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Once in a golden hour
I cast to earth a seed.
Up there came a flower,
The people s...
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ALFRED TENNYSON Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK I am a part of all that I have met.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
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ALFRED NOBEL Man know much more than he understands.
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ALFRED HITCHCOCK With so much information now online, it is exceptionally easy to simply dive in and drown.
ALFRED GLOSSBRENNER Exaggerated sensitiveness is an expression of the feeling of inferiority.
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ALFRED ADLER To be human means to feel inferior.
ALFRED ADLER We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.
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ALFRED JARRY Man knows more than he understands.
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Seven hundred years and fifty-three
Had Rome been growing up...
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--ALFRED MARSHALL This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid.
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ALFRED ADLER I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning
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With vassals and serfs at my side,
And of all who assem...
ALFRED BUNN We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.
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ALFRED ADLER Every time you get angry, you poison your own system. -Alfred Montapert.
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI It is now no mystery that some quite influential ‘philosophers’ were ‘mentally’ ill.
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for wor...
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ALFRED JARRY It is easier to fight for our principles than it is to live up to them.
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ALFRED KORZYBSKI Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing t...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a v...
ALFRED HITCHCOCK Here lies who, born a man, a grocer died.
[Fr., Ne homme--mort epicier.]
ALFRED AUSTIN The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent'.
ALFRED BRENDEL The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to c...
ALFRED ADLER To be a human being means to possess a feeling of inferiority which constantly presses towards its o...
ALFRED ADLER There is nothing to winning, really. That is, if you happen to be blessed with a keen eye, an agile ...
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ALFRED KASTLER On the day when two army corps may mutually annihilate each other in a second, probably all civilize...
ALFRED NOBEL Do you know that my very first experience as a composer was a 'Concerto for Accordion?'
ALFRED SCHNITTKE Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevi...
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ALFRED NOBEL By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's bir...
ALFRED ENOCH Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to sit...
ALFRED ADLER Television has brought back murder into the home - where it belongs.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
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ALFRED NOBEL Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.
ALFRED MARSHALL In the absence of any short term in common use to represent all desirable things, or things that sat...
ALFRED MARSHALL In every age poets and social reformers have tried to stimulate the people of their own time to a no...
ALFRED MARSHALL The price of every thing rises and falls from time to time and place to place; and with every such c...
ALFRED MARSHALL Again, most of the chief distinctions marked by economic terms are differences not of kind but of de...
ALFRED MARSHALL It is common to distinguish necessaries, comforts, and luxuries; the first class including all thing...
ALFRED MARSHALL Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading s...
ALFRED MARSHALL And very often the influence exerted on a person's character by the amount of his income is hard...
ALFRED MARSHALL But if inventions have increased man's power over nature very much, then the real value of money...
ALFRED MARSHALL Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.
ALFRED MARSHALL Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at lea...
ALFRED MARSHALL The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from ...
ALFRED MARSHALL All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indir...
ALFRED MARSHALL Material goods consist of useful material things, and of all rights to hold, or use, or derive benef...
ALFRED MARSHALL All labour is directed towards producing some effect.
ALFRED MARSHALL In common use almost every word has many shades of meaning, and therefore needs to be interpreted by...
ALFRED MARSHALL Consumption may be regarded as negative production.
ALFRED MARSHALL One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.
ALFRED KAZIN There is no gardening without humility. Nature is constantly sending even its oldest scholars to the...
ALFRED AUSTIN Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
ALFRED AUSTIN Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
ALFRED AUSTIN