Labels are devices for saving talkative persons the trouble of thinking
John Morley
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[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always...
A.A. MILNE Some persons don't know the difference between thinking for yourself, and thinking of yourself.
UNKNOWN Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.
MARTINA NAVRATILOVA Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen.
ANONYMOUS We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the wo...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble...
THOMAS J. WATSON All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is ...
THOMAS J. WATSON All the problems of the world could be settled if people were only willing to think. The trouble is ...
THOMAS J. WATSON SR. The systems in place today at any workplace are for meant for average persons, the best persons are ...
APURVA GAGLANI Labels are for cans, not people.
ANTHONY RAPP Labels are for shelved items only.
THEE AMAZING GRACE We have all these wonderful life-saving devices ... air bags, etc., but none of it means anything if...
JASON CAHILL The medical implant industry needs to decide if wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation is more impo...
STEVEN MAGEE Labor saving devices have destroyed many jobs but have given rise to many new ones. It simply is up ...
MILES ANTHONY SMITH Novels set in distant places give us expectations not unlike those we have of travel writing, and of...
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CHRISTOPHER MORLEY Each person is chargeable with the essential task to make his or her thought processes as refined as...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Most persons who indulge in second thought don't do much thinking when the subject is presented for ...
WILLIAM FEATHER I might have had trouble saving France in 1946-I didn't have television then.
CHARLES DE GAULLE THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT PITY.
THE INFERNAL DEVICES ARE WITHOUT REGRET.
THE INFERN...
CASSANDRA CLARE Labels bias our perceptions, thinking, and behavior. A label or story can either separate us from, o...
MICHAEL J. COHEN By his very success in inventing labor-saving devices, modern man has manufactured an abyss of bored...
LEWIS MUMFORD We have so many labor-saving devices today that we go broke keeping them repaired. Everything is eas...
LORNE SANNY Your thoughts have the power to control; our being, our emotions, and the way we view the world that...
MARTIN R. LEMIEUX For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since
he whom I loved, as if he should...
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO The greenbelt system is an entirely forward-thinking idea. It is saving this community significant a...
JACK MESSER Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.
REX HARRISON Because I must do something while I still can. Each soul is still incalculably precious.
MICHEL FABER Record labels today are nothing more than just "labels". Enough said!
PRAVIN PRAJAPATI [Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we shoul...
JEAN SIBELIUS What's the meaning of life? Other people.
JOHN GREEN A saving, though an immethodical knowledge of Christ, will bring us to heaven, John 17: 2, but a reg...
JOHN FLAVEL Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than ...
TOM HODGKINSON In this age of media and Internet access, we are much more talkative than ever before.
DAVID DUCHOVNY Go ahead and label me, cause labels are made for gifts.
ROBERT M. HENSEL If we have white persons in the March, we are certain to have trouble with the Communists, and it ma...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
TAMMY BALDWIN You're a hero,' Mom repeated, squeezing my hand and kissing my forehead. 'You saved six lives in tha...
DAN WELLS The thinking of John Cage derived from Duchamp and Dada. I was not interested in that.
SOL LEWITT It depends on what they find. Basically, they're replacing lighting devices, doing some troubleshoot...
BRENDAN GILL Don't rely too much on labels, for too often they are fables
CHARLES H. SPURGEON Awkward interests me, he said. At least when you are feeling awkward you are always thinking. When y...
ELIZABETH BRUNDAGE How many persons condemned to the horrors of solitary confinement have gone mad - simply because the...
JULES VERNE First we attacked the Russian soldiers with our gases, and then when we saw the poor fellows lying t...
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JEFF SLUMAN More Americans are focused on saving for retirement, but are they putting away enough? It's not grou...
DON BLANDIN Words Have The Power To Change Us
CASSANDRA CLARE The Christian leaders of the future have to be theologians, persons who know the heart of God and ar...
HENRI NOUWEN Instead of helping parents, these labels are deceiving parents.
ALISON CASSADY Every absurdity has a champion to defend it; for error is always talkative.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Every absurdity has a champion to defend it, for error is always talkative
OLIVER GOLDSMITH Equal Vision seems to be doing really well. A lot of these major labels are just imploding and becom...
VIC FUENTES (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON Aristotle is famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood...
WILL CUPPY Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the bloo...
WILL CUPPY The labels are pushing the subscription services approach.
PHIL LEIGH Most people understand that the important things in life are not things at all - they are the relati...
JOHN PAUL WARREN My first class is about still in the bed and you guys are my most talkative bunch.
JEAN WEBB Perhaps these devices are changing the notion of socializing.
ZACH NELSON Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
EDWARD ABBEY We are definitely seeing an increase in demand for these types of more sophisticated devices.
ANSSI VANJOKI People in their 40s and 50s are saving for their kids and for their retirement. They have the most d...
LEWIS ALTFEST Quite a few companies are trying to sell [distributed computing] under the p-to-p banner. While I th...
IAN CLARKE The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes s...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Today's mobile devices are becoming mini-computers, and they are vulnerable to similar types of thre...
RAIMUND GENES The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling ...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Artists are traditionally resistant to labels.
PATTI SMITH He's always been a talkative guy. He loves people to hear him, that's for sure.
KYLE DAQUANNA From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE I'm not usually in a talkative mode.
CHRIS CORNELL I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship
JOHN PAUL WARREN The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Gove...
JAMES MADISON All labels are offensive in some way.
J MASCIS When Betancourt went looking for trouble with Sanchez, both are responsible for all the trouble they...
CHUCK HUGHES Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior
LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH I read in a book once that a rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but I've never been able t...
L.M. MONTGOMERY Normally a computer or a laptop draws up your energies. If you can start pulling your energies from ...
APURVA GAGLANI Average intelligence loves blinders, which facilitate an even trot; but a brisker and livelier intel...
WITOLD GOMBROWICZ What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA Plastics are devices that are relatively inexpensive, lightweight and durable. They can be used in v...
RACHEL SEGALMAN You poets are accustomed to finding words for everything beautiful and you don’t even grant that p...
HERMANN HESSE When women are supposed to be quiet, a talkative woman is a woman who talks at all
DALE SPENDER The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it.
TERRY PRATCHETT A wide variety of devices beyond personal computers are arriving, many of which will be used to brow...
KEVIN LYNCH The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive
JOHN GREEN While email has been bruised, it's emerged intact. What people are thinking now is not how I can get...
MARK LEVITT I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.
SKEET ULRICH The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR, VISCOUNTESS The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with...
NANCY WITCHER ASTOR VISCOUNTESS A deaf and dumb in the mist of morons is a renowed talkative among brains.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON If you are out of trouble, watch for danger
SOPHOCLES looking for a lady that has the potential to be physically abused by her spouse? Just look in the di...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I can offer you my life, but it is a short life; I can offer you my heart, though I have no idea how...
CASSANDRA CLARE it was books that made me feel that perhaps i was not completely alone
CASSANDRA CLARE People are too complicated to have simple labels.
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