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A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame. -- William Shakespeare
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find.[Quoted by Theodore Sorensen in 'Kennedy']" -- John F. Kennedy
Tall oaks grow from little acorns.Testing. This is the text of an item. Testing. Origin. Testing. Quoted. Testing. Source. The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity) -- George MacDonald
State interference in social relations becomes, in one domain after another, superfluous, and then dies out of itself; the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things, and by the conduct of processes of production.Quoted in The Situationists and the City, pg. 194 -- Friedrich Engels
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience] -- George Bernard Shaw
All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport -- in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy."[Quoted in Socialism and Foreign Policy and War and the Liberal Conscience] -- George Bernard Shaw
To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. -- Alexander Smith
God - if the press ever quoted anyone correctly, it would be brilliant. -- Lauren Bacall
Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. -- Fred Allen
Hugh Lynn Cayce, Edgar Cayce's son, is quoted as saying, The best interpretation of a dream is one you apply. -- Henry Reed
Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke. -- Ambrose Bierce
Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted. -- John Ralston Saul
The biggest problem I have in journalism is being quoted or misquoted and then being asked to defend something I haven't said. -- Robert Fisk
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really. -- Andy Grove
I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous. -- Ben Elton
Tony La Russa was quoted as saying that I was using steroids back then, and I was talking about it in the clubhouse, openly. -- Jose Canseco
Journalists have misquoted people for so long - and quoted them out of context that for many people like to have their words on record. -- Jason Calacanis
Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive. -- Mac Thornberry
The weaker the data available upon which to base one's conclusion, the greater the precision which should be quoted in order to give the data authenticity. -- Norman Ralph Augustine
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
When you're around your family, and you have that history and that shared language, you say things you'd be embarrassed to hear quoted back to you later. -- Noah Baumbach
I read in the press, and therefore it must be true, that no secretary of defense had ever been quoted as arguing for a bigger budget for State. -- Robert M. Gates
The lines of poetry, the period of prose, and even the texts of Scripture most frequently recollected and quoted, are those which are felt to be preeminently musical. -- William Shenstone
In interviews I gave early on in my career, I was quoted as saying it was possible to have it all: a dynamic job, marriage, and children. In some respects, I was a social adolescent. -- Jessica Savitch
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; and, however generally this maxim has been quoted and believed, it is not true to fact. The people are turbulent and changing, they seldom judge or determine right. -- Alexander Hamilton
Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer. -- Karl Rove
Truly, learning appears to be a reverse geometric progression with experiences at one hour, one day, one month or one year dramatically more influential and formative than later experiences. As has often been quoted, 85% of brain development takes place by age 3, and yet we spend only 4% of our educational dollars by that point. -- George Kaiser
I became a larger than life figure for one reason only. When you're quoted in the 'Wall Street Journal', the 'New York Times', constantly as the expert in the business people assume you're a lot bigger than you are. And then I had to run like hell to catch up with my own image. -- Barbara Corcoran
I just got on Twitter because there was some MTV film blog that quoted me on something really innocuous that I supposedly said on Twitter before I was even on Twitter. So then I had to get on Twitter to say: 'This is me. I'm on Twitter. If there's somebody else saying that they're me on Twitter, they're not.' -- Anna Kendrick
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. -- Roger Ebert
When I grew up in the South, I was taught that segregation was the will of God, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that women were by nature in inferior to men, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. I was taught that it was okay to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and the Bible was quoted to prove it. -- John Shelby Spong
You can always be quoted. -- Susan Sontag
Cunning authors cut to be quoted. -- Willis Regier
Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted. -- Groucho Marx
I've quoted Lost in America several times. -- Robin Tunney
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. -- Simeon Strunsky
Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel. -- Leslie Charteris
I wish always to be quoted as George Eliot. -- George Eliot
I don't even like being quoted in a press release. -- Marco Arment
You never see the stock called Happiness quoted on the exchange. -- Henry Van Dyke
I know my career is going badly because I'm being quoted correctly. -- Lee Marvin
God if the press ever quoted anyone correctly it would be brilliant. -- Lauren Bacall
Sure, I've often been misrepresented - anyone frequently quoted has this experience. -- Todd Gitlin
Because I dislike being quoted I lie almost constantly when talking about my work. -- Terry Gilliam
A whipper-snapper of criticism who quoted dead languages to hide his ignorance of life. -- Herbert Beerbohm Tree
Maxims are often quoted by those who stand in more need of their application. -- James Ellis
Like the Bible, Stanislavsky's basic texts on acting can be quoted to any purpose. -- Lee Strasberg
And I quoted from Nietzsche: That which does not kill me, makes me stronger. -- Viktor E. Frankl
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer's certainly did. -- Richelle Mead
If I see Danny Hillis quoted as an expert on MPP one more time, I'm going to puke. -- Larry Ellison
Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later. -- Harry Shearer
If you try to give an on-the-one-hand-or-the-other- hand answer, only one of the hands tends to get quoted. -- Alan Blinder
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey -- John Cheever
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You become smart when you don't need to quote someone anymore." I am still stupid: I quoted Chuck Palahiniuk -- Chuck Palahniuk
After all, it was never Darnay he quoted, only Sydney, drunk and wrecked and dissipated. Sydney, who died for love. -- Cassandra Clare
It seems pointless to be quoted if one isn't going to be quotable ... it's better to be quotable than honest. -- Tom Stoppard
If kisses were what you were looking for, little fool, why didn't you come to me? quoted by Susannah Simon -- Meg Cabot
I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly. -- Stanley Kubrick
All of those faeries and duels and mad queens and so on, and no one quoted old Billy Shakespeare. Not even once. -- Jim Butcher
Public circulation is what renders something a quotation. It's quotable because it's been quoted, and its having been quoted gives it authority. -- Louis Menand
[Donald Trump] even quoted a tweet from a self-identified 16-year-old as a way to justify crazy unsupported claims about the popular vote. -- Chuck Todd
Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors. -- Benjamin Franklin
I have been quoted saying that, in the future, all companies will be Internet companies. I still believe that. More than ever, really -- Andy Grove
It's necessary in order to attract attention, to dazzle at all costs, to be disapproved of by serious people and quoted by the foolish. -- Jill Johnston
The trouble with being quoted a lot is that it makes other people think you're quoting yourself when in fact you're merely repeating yourself. -- Larry Wall
An open sack hides nothing, And an open door hides little, but an open man is surely hiding something. lini is quoted by Nynaeve. -- Robert Jordan
I so hate it when I'm quoted to thwart the juices and desires of the great interior design public at large - Daily Express -- Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
The Bible was the only book Jesus ever quoted, and then never as a basis for discussion but to decide the point at issue. -- Leon Morris
Wouldn't it be terrible if I quoted some reliable statistics which prove that more people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol. -- W. C. Fields
I've been so mutilated by a lot of articles. I know I haven't said a lot of things I'm quoted as saying in the papers. -- Mary Docter
Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. -- Rush Limbaugh
Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. -- Rush Limbaugh
Whenever you see some business person quoted complaining about how he or she can't find workers with the necessary skills, ask what wage they're offering. -- Paul Krugman
So many figures are quoted to prove so many things. Sometimes it depends on what paper you read or what broadcast you listen in on. -- Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Tezuman priests have a sophisticated calendar and an advanced horology," quoted Rincewind. "Ah," said Eric, "Good." "No," said Rincewind patiently. "It means time measurement." "Oh. -- Terry Pratchett
Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense. -- Oscar Wilde
I don't know how many off the record conversations I've had with African-American leaders who would not be quoted and refused to make their sentiments public. -- Julianne Malveaux
I want my questions answered by an alert and experienced politician, prepared to be grilled and quoted -- not my hand held by an old smoothie. -- William Safire
The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it.[As quoted in The New Yorker, April 25, 2011] -- Francis Crick
I don't know about that. I'm not a very analytical person. I have various impulses. I've often quoted Walt Whitman's phrase "I contain multitudes." I understand that. -- Patti Smith
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The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands. -- Robert Benchley
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? -- Philip Gilbert Hamerton
People who quoted the Scriptures in criticism of others were terrible bores and usually they misapplied the text. One could prove anything against anyone from the Bible. -- Muriel Spark
We exist, and are quoted, as standing proofs that a government, so modeled as to rest continually on the will of the whole society, is a practicable government. -- Thomas Jefferson
Ron Sirak, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be. -- Annika Sorenstam
Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38 -- Thomas Merton
The cause of liberty becomes a mockery if the price to be paid is the wholesale destruction of those who are to enjoy liberty. Ghandi, quoted in Merton, p. 68 -- Thomas Merton
Stock prices have been quoted in fractions for two centuries, based on a system descended from Spanish pieces of eight. Each dollar was cut into eight bits worth 12.5 cents each.. -- Charles Jaffe
We also quoted Robert Luskin, Rove's attorney, acknowledging that Rove did speak to Cooper late on the week prior to the article coming out, which would have been July 10 or 11. -- Michael Isikoff
Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination. -- Pola Negri
Winning supporters over can only really be achieved by what you do, not what you say. It's no use just smiling and shaking hands and getting quoted with witty one-liners. -- Randy Lerner
Fine phrases I value more than bank-notes. I have ear for no other harmony than the harmony of words. To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for. -- Alexander Smith
I just don't want to give out interviews. I just hate them. Inevitably, I ended up hurting some people or leaving some names out or getting quoted out of context. -- Jerry Perenchio
We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Also, General Zinni, who commanded central command, was very much opposed to the war in the first place, as I was. We were both quoted to that effect in February of 2003. -- William Odom
Henry Ford is quoted as saying. "History is more or less bunk." Now, if he never spoke those words, doesn't that just prove he was right when he didn't say them? -- Alex Bosworth
For what is the life of a man, if it is not interwoven with the life of former generations by as sense of history. [Cicero, quoted by Goldsworthy in his Augustus] -- Adrian Goldsworthy
[Gerald] Ford and [Jimmy] Carter, in fact, were huge disappointments to me. Think about this: They were the presidents around the time of America's historic bicentennial, and yet rarely quoted the founders. -- Paul Kengor
I asked Mother how she endured so many years of goodbyes. She quoted a mountain-man who said, 'Make the least of all that goes and the most of all that comes.' -- Gigi Graham
Pat Robertson said the feminist movement was just a bunch of lesbians who wanted to leave their husbands and kill their children. I quoted him in my book. It's a fantastic statement. -- John Shelby Spong
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody can read."[As quoted in Literary Censorship in England (in Current Opinion, Vol. 55, No. 5, November 1913)] -- George Bernard Shaw
These were not people you could disagree with. If you disagreed, you were wrong."Juliet Hopkins, Tavistock Institute, as quoted in Relationships and how They Shape Our Capacity to Love By Robert Karen -- Juliet Hopkins
I've heard it quoted that I was dead. You can't believe anything you read. That was just an off-hand remark somebody picked up, and now it's been quoted and quoted, and therefore misquoted. -- Tom Lehrer
I would remain nearer you for what time there is." "Gone in one faerie sigh," she quoted. Leather-clad fingers brushed over her short hair, rested on her cheek. "I can hold my breath. -- Holly Black
Steve Bannon has quoted as lamenting the fact that he predicts a "Fox News" that will be more centrist in the future. He came after our boss Rupert Murdoch in some unflattering terms. -- Megyn Kelly
Brother Horse spread five fingers in the wind. "'Thus the tree grows,'" he quoted, "'and each new branch, as a new tree. Nothing is unchanging, least of all the ways of people. -- Greg Keyes
Well, a lot of people don't want to be quoted. But keep in mind that Bob Woodward did all of his Watergate reporting with anonymous sources, and we know how that turned out. -- Edward Klein
A good saying often runs the risk of being thrown away when quoted as the speaker's own. [Fr., C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre que de le donner pour sien.] -- Jean de la Bruyere
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A classic lecture, rich in sentiment, With scraps of thundrous Epic lilted out By violet-hooded Doctors, elegies And quoted odes, and jewels five-words-long, That on the stretched forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Do or do not. There is no try," says Yoda, the bewitching philosopher warrior created by George Lucas in Star Wars. Yoda is quoted at least as often as the founding fathers on this topic. -- Jerry I. Porras
The much-quoted immaculate conception of the Virgin Mary occurred but once so that the world might know that Almighty God, when He so chooses, has no need of men, though He cannot dispense with women. -- Jose Saramago

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