“ Children should be like waffles — you should be able to throw the first one away. ”
- Nancy Mitford- Copy
- 571
“ I am in earnest; I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard. ”
- William Lloyd Garrison- Copy
- 924
“ Let's not quibble! I'm the foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.". ”
- Tallulah Bankhead- Copy
- 1.5K
“ For you know, nuncle, The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long That it's had it head bit off by it young. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court. ”
- William Wycherley- Copy
- 1.5K
“ I will be as harsh as truth, and uncompromising as justice… I am in earnest, I will not equivocate, I will not excuse, I will not retreat a single inch, and I will be heard. ”
- William Lloyd Garrison- Copy
- 2.4K
“ I am in earnest — I will not equivocate — I will not excuse — I will not retreat a single inch and I will be heard. ”
- William Lloyd Garrison- Copy
- 630
“ No man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
- 3.7K
“ We cannot avoid using power, cannot escape the compulsion to afflict the world, so let us, cautious in diction and mighty in contradiction, love powerfully. ”
- Martin Buber- Copy
- 284
“ The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but… what we ought to avoid. ”
- Jose Ortega y Gasset- Copy
- 3.3K
“ Working with Daddy - it's sort of like playing tennis against somebody, instead of just hitting them into a hedge where they sort of go in, you know. ”
- Hayley Mills- Copy
- 2.9K
“ People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have must to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
- 2.9K
“ To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. ”
- Fritz Kunkel- Copy
- 3.5K
“ Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. ”
- Mark Twain- Copy
- 1.7K
“ I have been ever of the opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
- 1.2K
“ The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles. ”
- Ayn Rand- Copy
- 2.4K
“ The silence of a flower: a kind of silence which we continually evade, of which we find only the shadow in dreams. ”
- Lewis Thompson- Copy
- 944
“ You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. ”
- Abraham Lincoln- Copy
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