Quotes of: His Keyword

What I respect in people more than anything is work ethic. And Justin Timberlake's got that. He works his tail off, and he knows his stuff.

Amy Adams

Obama's stern demeanor punctuated by intermittent flashes of his wide, relaxing smile is his greatest weapon in defusing pent-up angst.

Tina Brown

I love, love, love John Mayer. He's incredible. I love all of his records and even his John Mayer Trio stuff.

Shane Harper

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

Samuel Butler

In these days a man is nobody unless his biography is kept so far posted up that it may be ready for the national breakfast-table on the morning after his demise.

Anthony Trollope

Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature.

Annie Besant

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

Augustine Birrell

My father, Simon Hoggart, was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in June 2010. By this point, it had spread to his spleen and metastasised in his lungs and so was pronounced terminal.

Amy Hoggart

People become followers of the God because of his fear, but they become a fan of a hero because of his work.

Amit Kalantri

Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires, man is a fallen god who remembers the heavens.

Alphonse de Lamartine

When a guy takes off his coat, he's not going to fight. When a guy takes off his wristwatch, watch out!

Al McGuire

Anyone who has proclaimed violence his method inexorably must choose lying as his principle.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Never treat somebody's cleverness as his life's smartness. Cleverness is to hide the weakness and the smartness is to project the strength of his weakness.

Anuj Somany

Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

Bernard Baruch

When you tell an Iowan a joke, you can see a kind of race going on between his brain and his expression.

Bill Bryson

Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes. After that who cares?... He's a mile away and you've got his shoes!

Billy Connolly

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

Ayn Rand

Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Woody Allen

No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

George S. Patton

I held back from seeing Jacob much during those weeks. He wanted only his mother, and I wasn’t sure I could handle seeing him like that. I stopped by to pick up his siblings and take them away, but I rarely went inside the house. After several days...

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The Complete Sherlock Holmes