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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: judge
Nationality: american
Birth: March 8, 1841 - March 6, 1935

Topics

God Faith Great Man Act He

I'm not reading what I write when I wrote. It's an unconscious outpouring that's a mess, and it's many, many steps away from anything anyone would want to read. Creating that way seems to generate the most interesting material for me to work with, though.

Work Me Reading Interesting Creating

People banging away on their smartphones are fluently using a code separate from the one they use in actual writing, but a code it is, to which linguists are currently devoting articles.

People Writing Away Code Articles

The charge that liberal candidates don't connect with or understand the values and beliefs of regular Americans is embedded in old epithets like 'limousine liberal,' which I first heard aimed at New York Mayor John Lindsay in 1969.

Jeff Greenfield

New York Values New Understand First

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Michael Servetus

Nothing Intellect Been Senses Found

A parent can seem very kind and gentle, but as any child knows, as soon as that parent gets stressed, they can suddenly turn and get a bit angry.

Angry Child Parent Kind Gentle Turn

All my friends are girls. I just prefer the company of women.

Women Friends Company Just Prefer

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Sin Punishment First Conscience

I think I infuse the music with a new passion. Part of this is because I have fallen in love: I am in love with the New York Philharmonic. The chemistry has just been right. Beyond expectation.

Love Music Passion I Am New York

I think we were raised in a nice Texas Jewish family where education was the most important thing, and close behind that was the arts. It was emphasized and expected that we'd play piano.

Family Education Texas Think Play

During the day I don't wear much makeup.

Denise Richards

Day Makeup Wear Much

In cyberspace, 95 per cent of what you read is hearsay.

You Read Cyberspace Hearsay Cent

If I could go back in time, I would have loved to have done more with Triple H. He blossomed into a bigger star after I left. I regret, looking back now, that we didn't have more matches or better matches or at least one pay-per-view match where we could have really showed our best stuff - or, at least, I did.

Time Best Looking Back Looking Loved

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