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I have never advised the destruction of life, but of property, yes. -- Emmeline Pankhurst
You will be better advised to watch what we do instead of what we say. -- A. A. Milne
I was regularly advised not to go into music, that I should give up that foolish dream. -- Dave Matthews
An actress once advised me, 'Make sure you do your own laundry - it will keep you honest.' -- Cate Blanchett
We had good white friends who advised us against taking the war path. My friend and brother, Mr. Chapman, told us just how the war would end. -- Chief Joseph
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. -- Francis Bacon
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. -- Eugenio Montale
When I was 40, my doctor advised me that a man in his 40s shouldn't play tennis. I heeded his advice carefully and could hardly wait until I reached 50 to start again. -- Hugo Black
A friend of mine took me to Memphis advised me that I should get in the musicians' union. He gave me a set of drums and said, Stay on the job, son. -- Levon Helm
I no longer teach law. But when I did I advised my students that they should never accept a case if it meant that by doing so you couldn't sleep at night. -- Christopher Darden
It is true I gained muscular vigour, but with it a prodigious appetite, which I was compelled to indulge, and consequently increased in weight, until my kind old friend advised me to forsake the exercise. -- William Banting
The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. -- Martin Luther
I reached a time in college when I didn't know what I wanted to do. At that time, women's careers were essentially nursing, secretarial and teaching. My mother advised me to get my teacher's certificate. -- Kay Granger
One of the things that I think you see sometimes in politics is a certain degree of caution. It's usually advised by consultants who don't want to see you march to the end of a limb. -- Elizabeth Edwards
Economics is a subject profoundly conducive to cliche, resonant with boredom. On few topics is an American audience so practiced in turning off its ears and minds. And none can say that the response is ill advised. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Whistleblowers are typically rendered incommunicado, either because they're in hiding, or advised by their lawyers to stay silent, or imprisoned. As a result, the public hears only about them, but never from them, which makes their demonization virtually inevitable. -- Glenn Greenwald
Even after they fired me, called me a bigot and publicly advised me to only share my thoughts with a psychiatrist, I did not call for defunding NPR. I am a journalist, and NPR is an important platform for journalism. -- Juan Williams
In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward. -- Pranab Mukherjee
Many of our problems are home-grown. Gordon Brown regularly advised the rest of the world to follow his British model of growth. But the model was flawed. It led to the highest level of household debt in relation to income in the world. -- Vince Cable
About 100 things that your kid will do that will surprise you and break your heart and it will be a combination of fact based therapy, medically advised kinds of passages accompanied by celebrity anecdotes and just some funny stuff to lighten the load. -- Alan Thicke
I've done movies that I've been advised not to do. 'Dog Soldiers,' the movie I did 11 years ago now, I remember my agent at the time was like, 'You shouldn't do that. It's a weird film about werewolves,' and it became a cult hit. -- Kevin McKidd
I was still young when I missed Beijing. I was favourite to win a medal but I knew I had time. My coach advised me to stay at school and finish my exams. Even if I had gone and won the Olympics, I might not have handled the pressure. So I moved on. -- David Rudisha
I actually don't pay a lot of attention to the movie 'industry'... I just do the work when I get it. I never considered anything I was in, or did, as a possible breakthrough for me. I have advised other actors not to expect anything. Expecting a 'breakthrough' is almost an automatic for sure 'let down' or heartbreak. -- Mark Margolis
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college. -- Henry Petroski
I met my wife in Bombay at an official function. And then we courted for three years. That's a great old term, 'courting.' And we had to do it quietly, of course, because you would know the difficulties one might have with Indian parents. She was advised by her father that people in the West don't take marriage seriously. -- Glenn Turner
I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 A.M. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. -- Joan Didion
I have always advised men to read -- Mother Jones
They first condemn that first advised the ill. -- John Dryden
Exercise caution, as I have advised many people. -- George Carman
Be advised that there is no parking in Europe. -- Dave Barry
Chilo advised, "not to speak evil of the dead." -- Diogenes
You're advised not to drink the replica Arab spring water. -- Banksy
Readers are advised to remember the devil is a liar. -- C. S. Lewis
You must not allow yourself to be advised, cautioned, influenced, persuaded -- Minnie Maddern Fiske
Parental Discretion is advised, but will be completely f*n, ignored -- Triple H
Don't be surprised if I demur, for, be advised my passport's green. -- Seamus Heaney
I wasn't ever advised by Scott Sullivan of anything ever being wrong. -- Bernard Ebbers
If the lion was advised by the fox, he would be cunning. -- William Blake
People are generally badly advised when they're starting out in the creative field. -- Julian Lennon
The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity. -- Ambrose Bierce
I'm always advised and I follow that advice never to talk about security issues. -- Geert Wilders
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. -- Jean de La Fontaine
The Republican Party would be well advised to get the heck out of people's bedrooms. -- Rudy Giuliani
I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname. -- Rachel Weisz
Don't decide yet," Hephaestus advised. "Wait until daybreak. Daybreak is a good time for decisions. -- Rick Riordan
I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want. -- Mike Todd, Jr.
I have always advised people never to apply for a job you do not really want. -- Mike Todd, Jr.
My staff was very excited for Brisvegas. When I arrived, they advised I needed some XXXX. -- Barack Obama
Anyone who is concerned about his dignity would be well advised to keep away from horses. -- Prince Philip
Struggling writers are often advised to pick a simple genre, but it doesn't work that way. -- Alan Furst
The practising Bayesian is well advised to become friends with as many numerical analysts as possible. -- Jim Berger
What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay. -- Francis Quarles
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the most popular man in the United States. -- Duff Green
In high school my mother advised me to make my last lines into titles. It was very good advice. -- Rachel Zucker
Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over. -- Charles Duke
One grows accustomed to being praised, or being blamed, or being advised, but it is unusual to be understood. -- E. M. Forster
I have been advised by the best medical authority, at my age, not to attempt to give up alcohol. -- W. C. Fields
I've worn some particularly baggy jeans and cowboys boot combinations after coming back from Austin, Texas. This was ill-advised. -- Jamie Cullum
Grandfather / advised me: / Learn a trade / I learned / to sit at desk / and condense / No layoff / from this / condensery. -- Lorine Niedecker
Art "? the one achievement of man which has made the long trip up from all fours seem well advised -- James Thurber
In the desert, an old monk had once advised a traveler, the voices of God and the Devil are scarcely distinguishable. -- Loren Eiseley
In that respect, Martin Luther King, whom A.J.[Muste] advised in the civil rights movement, was also a radical pacifist. -- Nat Hentoff
Young poets are advised by their elders to avoid the practice of journalism as they would wet socks and gin before breakfast. -- Archibald MacLeish
When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose. -- Warren Christopher
Thomas Hardy once advised us to record impressions more and to express ideas less. Now and then I would remember this advice. -- Mu Xin
You might want to lie down," Magnus advised. "I find that it helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in. -- Cassandra Clare
Extolling the virtues of conservation of energy, Churchill advised, Never stand when you can sit, and never sit when you can lie down. -- Winston S. Churchill
When I was 15, if Stephen Fry had advised me to trim my eyebrows with a Flymo, I would have given it serious consideration. -- Robert Webb
There is no goodness in people who don't give advice, and there is no goodness in people who don't like to be advised -- Umar
Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos. -- Thomas Sowell
We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. -- Joan Didion
A Labor prime minister, Julia Gillard, who does believe in climate change, nevertheless advised her predecessor, Kevin Rudd, to abandon his emissions trading scheme. -- Richard Flanagan
Earth would soon Be uninhabitable as the moon. What for that matter had it ever been? Who advised man to come and live therein? -- Robert Frost
He advised that I could invest in stocks to make money. Given that I have a negative balance, that was where the conversation stopped. -- Vann Chow
I think it's ill-advised to attribute pathologies to healthy people. It doesn't help normal, healthy, thriving children to be viewed as pitiable and fragile. -- Christina Hoff Sommers
I must confess that if I had been consulted whether to establish a Nobel Prize in economics, I should have decidedly advised against it. -- Friedrich August von Hayek
If I had taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral. -- George Burns
There are two modes of transport in Los Angeles: car and ambulance. Visitors who wish to remain inconspicuous are advised to choose the latter -- Fran Lebowitz
We are advised to meditate on things that are true, lovely, noble, gracious and bring good report. These should form the basis of our thought pattern. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised. -- Elvis Costello
It takes a very strong head to keep secrets for years and not go slightly mad. It isn't wise to be advised by anyone slightly mad. -- C.P. Snow
Pretend to be a delinquent?" I asked clarifying. "You can do it," Dave advised me. "Just don't smile, and try to look like you're considering stealing something. -- Sarah Dessen
And I think the almost undeviating support by Great Britain for the ill-advised policies of President Bush in Iraq have been a major tragedy for the world. -- Jimmy Carter
Having read the inscriptions upon the tombstones of the great and little cemeteries, Wang Peng advised the Emperor to kill all the living and resurrect the dead. -- Paul Eldridge
Had Calhoun been advised by me, he would have been the Candidate in opposition to General Jackson, and elected and the country saved the misery that followed. -- Duff Green
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement. -- John Gierach
At 1.24 am on 26 April 1986 Chernobyl's Unit 4 reactor exploded after staff disabled safety systems and performed an ill-advised experiment to check "? ironically enough "? the reactor's safety. -- Mark Lynas
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have loved a daughter. -- Toni Braxton
Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. "Thy words," said he, "Aristodemus, smell of the apron. -- Plutarch
The one who admonishes his brother secretly, he has advised sincerely and has honored him. If he does it outwardly (among others) then he has dishonored and shamed him. -- Al-Shafiâ??i
The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff. -- Cindy Sherman
In a manner familiar to anyone who had ever packed a car for a family trip, genial confusion gave way to impatience, then furious ultimatums, then ill-advised snap decisions. -- Neal Stephenson
It isn't the sign of a good sport to go out among other people when one has a cold: it is the sign of a selfish and ill-advised person. -- Mary Elizabeth Clark
If the image one holds of one's self contains elements that don't square with reality, one is best advised to let go of them, however difficult that may be. -- Sidney Poitier
At this point I was strongly advised that I was too young socially to go to college so I took a second senior year at Andover, another boarding school. -- William Standish Knowles
Your life today and tomorrow is patterned alongside your thoughts. You are therefore advised to create good and wonderful thoughts today so they will deliver a beautiful tomorrow for you. -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Iâ??ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to put all their eggs in one basket. -- Darren Rowse
As I've said, I've been advised not to get into the specifics out there. Is there some truth out there? Yes. Is there a lot of falsehood out there? Absolutely. -- Jeff Gannon
I stayed in Hamburg a few more days, and during that time I received a visit from Rolf Aldag, the sporting director at T-Mobile. He advised me to tell the truth. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
My smartest move was joining Google. It wasn't obvious at the time that it would be a good decision. A lot of people, many of my friends, advised me against it. -- Susan Wojcicki
Those interested in celestial navigation are advised to first obtain a rudimentary knowledge of integral calculus, phlebotomy, astral physics and related subjects. The use of liquor is strictly forbidden on interplanetary flights. -- Henry Miller
There never was a man of solid understanding, whose apprehensions are sober, and by a pensive inspection advised, but that he hath found by an irresistible necessity one true God and everlasting being. -- Walter Raleigh
Europe would be well advised to pay more attention to Latin America. The emerging economies are the engines of the global economy. Colombia has done too little to improve its reputation in Europe. -- Juan Manuel Santos
The Chancellor [Angela Merkel] and the European partners would be well-advised to address the problems in eastern Ukraine more thoroughly. Maybe they have too many domestic problems of their own at the moment. -- Vladimir Putin
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn. -- Walt Disney
A prince who is not himself wise cannot be wisely advised. . . . Good advice depends on the shrewdness of the prince who seeks it, and not the shrewdness of the prince on good advice. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
I canâ??t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It puts them to sleep. -- Anne Bernays
I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it. -- John Nance Garner
What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter. -- Barack Obama
The best way to find out if a man has done something is to advise him to do it. He will not be able to resist boasting that he has done it without being advised. -- Comtesse Diane
Libby was advised by the vice president of the United States that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA in the counterproliferation division. Libby understood that the vice president had learned this information from the CIA. -- Patrick Fitzgerald

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