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J.B.S. HALDANE Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
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LOGAN PEARSALL SMITH To suppose, as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave the way the rich behave, is like...
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LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY But it's easier to say 'I love you',
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EZRA POUND I find myself becoming increasingly nostalgic for the past, but after all I suppose that is the only...
JAMES ROZOFF We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those...
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ISAAC ASIMOV I suppose that Willie had his natural quota of ordinary suspicion and caginess, but those things ten...
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EDITH WHARTON I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway
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MARY BERRY No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give...
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BOB HOPKINS J&J has a basis for wanting a discount to the original terms and clearly seems headed down that path...
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JANE GOODALL If you're not getting work, make your own work. I think that's a good mentality. I suppose I...
SOPHIE KENNEDY CLARK I suppose we don't rely on comparison enough to tell us whom it is that we are talking to. We give p...
AMOR TOWLES I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination...
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ACTS 2:15 My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.
THEODORE JOHN KACZYNSKI My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate.
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DAN JENKINS Yeah, Hitman I suppose is most of the time a lighter read than Preacher; it was always going to be.
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NIKKI ROWE There are worse things than being called 'the camel lady,' I suppose.
ROBYN DAVIDSON I don't mind the term functional medicine -- I suppose it's better than dysfunctional medicine.
NANCY S. MURE Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning...
ISAAC ASIMOV Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know—and yet not wise enough to control our learning ...
ISAAC ASIMOV But I suppose the most revolutionary act one can engage in is... to tell the truth.
HOWARD ZINN To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert...
ADAM CLARKE I suppose it's a sentimental thing, but I wouldn't want to do more 'Lewis' than we d...
KEVIN WHATELY Much of the time I'm an introvert, by choice spending a lot of time on my own. I suppose liking ...
ROBYN DAVIDSON Indeed, these people are not drunk, as you suppose, for it is only nine o’clock in the morning.
ACTS 2:15 If we win trophies then I suppose we draw more fans and the club is more successful commercially. Bu...
LUIS FIGO We did everything we were suppose to do but put the ball in the hole.
CARY THOMPSON I suppose I should get a VCR, but the only thing I like about television is its ephemerality.
P. J. O'ROURKE He was, I suppose, my best friend, which is a less pathetic way of saying he was my only friend.
RANSOM RIGGS Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows,
Less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
WILLIAM COWPER Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES BALDWIN Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES A. BALDWIN Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy...
JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN It is an aspect of happiness to suppose we all deserve it.
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TALULAH RILEY We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be...
JENNIFER GILMORE We had not expected such strong growth. I suppose we were a little overcautious.
JUSSI HYOTY We are all, I suppose, beholden to our parents - the question is, how much?
JODI PICOULT I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
VERONICA ROTH There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own se...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Does advertising corrupt editors? Yes it does, but fewer editors than you may suppose... the vast ma...
DAVID OGILVY Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-hab...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY We all want to believe in impossible things, I suppose, to persuade ourselves that miracles can happ...
PAUL AUSTER Credit is like chastity, they can both stand temptation better than suspicion
JOSH BILLINGS So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is r...
STEPHEN HAWKING I suppose [my life] has most resembled a blue chip stock: fairly stable, more ups than downs, and gr...
NICHOLAS SPARKS On the heights it is warmer than people in the valleys suppose, especially in winter. The thinker re...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE The only other home I can enter without an invitation, is my parents home.
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J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 Much of today's...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Richard Hooker, Priest, Anglican Apologist, Teacher, 1600 Commemoration of Martin of Porres...
J. B. PHILLIPS What I am concerned with here is not to write a new life of Jesus, but to set down my witness to the...
J. B. PHILLIPS Pentecost Every time we say, 'I believe in the Holy Spirit,' we mean that we believe that there i...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Agnes, Child Martyr at Rome, 304 Most Christians are affected far more than they know by...
J. B. PHILLIPS It is necessary to point out that our responsibility is a relative one only, for as we think of the ...
J. B. PHILLIPS Feast of Perpetua, Felicity & their Companions, Martyrs at Carthage, 203 God in His providence ha...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Eglantine Jebb, Social Reformer, Founder of 'Save the Children', 1928 Following...
J. B. PHILLIPS Commemoration of Birinus, Bishop of Dorchester (Oxon), Apostle of Wessex, 650 In his enthusiasm, ...
J. B. PHILLIPS If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go t...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Live TV has an amazing pace to it. You've got to be able to think quick, make changes last minut...
J. B. SMOOVE I'm big on facial expressions, and I'm big on mannerisms, which I find to be hilarious.
J. B. SMOOVE A lot of critics have picked themselves to be Michelle's self-appointed guardians. We look at the po...
B. J. WIE She is a very happy girl today.
B. J. WIE We've handled her press, her P.R., and been her travel agent. At some time, she will be on her own. ...
B. J. WIE She grew up playing against boys in Hawaii, so it's very natural to her. She's used to playing with ...
B. J. WIE You don't want to take the world over with a whole hamper full of dirty clothes. That's the ...
J. B. SMOOVE Our dourest parsons, who followed the nonconformist fashion of long extemporary prayers, always seem...
J. B. PRIESTLEY Those no-sooner-have-I-touched-the-pillow people are past my comprehension. There is something bovin...
J. B. PRIESTLEY A lot of men who have accepted - or had imposed upon them in boyhood - the old English public school...
J. B. PRIESTLEY There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
J. B. PRIESTLEY Un défaut qui empêche les hommes d'agir, c'est de ne pas sentir de quoi ils sont capables.
J. B. BOSSUET The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
J. B. PRIESTLEY I'll drive down the street, and I'll practice improv. I will sit there at a red light and se...
J. B. SMOOVE I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps...
J. B. PRIESTLEY It is only the first obstacle which counts to conquer modesty
J. B. BOSSUET I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I loved Peter Sellers. I thought he was the perfect mix of physical comedy with out-of-the-box humor...
J. B. SMOOVE When I first started doing comedy years ago, I used to be the biggest Michael Richards fan. I used t...
J. B. SMOOVE I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the ...
J. B. SMOOVE What happens in improv is you create your own storyline.
J. B. SMOOVE I should be European, man. I'm long and lean. I'd look good in a trench coat.
J. B. SMOOVE Just because one happens to be wealthy, it doesn't mean you are naturally any good at building a...
J. B. PRITZKER We plan, we toil, we suffer in the hope of what? A camel-load of idol's eyes? The title deeds of Rad...
J. B. PRIESTLEY If there is one thing left that I would like to do, it's to write something really beautiful. And I ...
J. B. PRIESTLEY I always had a feeling when I was a kid that I didn't really know what was going on. Everybody e...
S. J. ROZAN The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest...
S. J. ROZAN Chinatown is tremendously interesting... It's a part of the city that hasn't really been exp...
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