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Herman Melville Quotes

There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve the laws inviolate for the future.

Herman Melville

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: August 1, 1819 - September 28, 1891

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Future Order Wink Laws Must Potent

When I was 16, I wanted to look like Lord Byron. It's not really a haircut so much as a hair-not-cut, but I've never changed it. It's a bit Byron, a bit Don Juan DeMarco and other things that I aspire to be.

Jeremy Clarkson

Haircut Look Never Things Aspire

I don't love dolls. I love women. I love their bodies.

Love Women Dolls I Love Bodies

Power is the chance to impose your will within a social context, even when opposed and regardless of the integrity of that chance.

Integrity Power Chance Will Within

Don't look at all at what other people are doing. Think of what you're doing as completely fresh because if you imitate you're dead.

Robert Rodriguez

People Think Doing You Look Dead

To begin to know the philosophy of socialism, in backward countries where the class differences are great, very great, and terribly exaggerated over the conditions we know in this country, to overcome this, the theory of revolution, of force and violence, was necessary within those political conditions. It couldn't be anything else.

Great Socialism Revolution Political

The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties... the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.

Freedom Respect Great Youth Face

I'd love to host a game show one day. I love giving things away.

Love Day Game Giving One Day Things

I don't read good books anymore, it seems; I just buy them and put them on the shelf and every now and then walk over and pet them. I'm like the optimistic dieter who fills her closet with clothes two sizes too small and dreams of the day she can wear them. I know just what I want to do when I retire.

Good Dreams Walk Day Pet Small

There's a village in my computer - friends, fans, readers, and colleagues. It's a populous, sometimes chaotic little burg always bustling with news, gossip, opinions and potential excitement.

Colleagues Potential Friends Opinions

My earliest memories of holidays are from when I was about eight. We lived in Pennsylvania, and every year we'd visit Miami.

Memories Holidays Miami Year Lived

I happened to see a really old 'Doctor Who', the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton, and he'd picked up a Scotsman from 1745. It was an 18 or 19-year-old man who appeared in a kilt, and I thought, 'That's rather fetching.'

Man Doctor Thought Old Man Old See

A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake as by never repeating it.

Christian Nestell Bovee

Mistake Never Sound Discretion Much

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