Laurence Sterne Quotes

I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor.

Laurence Sterne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: November 24, 1713 - March 18, 1768

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Life? You can't manipulate it or bend it to your will. You have no choice but to roll with it.

Jillian Michaels

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People always say, 'I want to be the best fighter in the world.' That's why I respect Conor. He said he wants to be the best fighter in the world, and he's trying to prove it.

Max Holloway

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The ultimate meaning of the Bible escapes human limits and calls us to a recognition that every life is holy, every life is loved, and every life is called to be all that that life is capable of being.

John Shelby Spong

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I think we need to stand with Israel.

Ron DeSantis

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I think if you say that art and politics, or religion and politics, mustn't mix, don't mix, that is itself a political statement. Even if you are writing a 19th-century novel where the money comes from a plantation in the Caribbean and you don't talk about that, that itself is a political thing.

Mohsin Hamid

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If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

Lou Holtz

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Most cop movies and TV shows are fantasies.

Dennis Farina

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Chemical weapons, biological weapons, and nuclear weapons should never be used.

Brad Schneider

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I was married to the ANC. It was the best marriage I ever had.

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela

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The most momentous thing in human life is the art of winning the soul to good or evil.

Pythagoras

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The central con of the political coalition assembled by Ronald Reagan and maintained by his successors was that government was a common enemy.

Timothy Noah

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I have a heart of gold, but I'm really a marshmallow in my heart.

Mr. T

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