Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Quotes

On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeI AmEndWorthSideAgainst

You know, you really do choose your existence in a way.

Jennifer Jason Leigh

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When I was on the swim team as a kid, I used to hide out from my coach by going into the bathroom and hiding out in one of the stalls. And I would literally wrap myself in toilet paper so as not to get hypothermia.

Jeff Kinney

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Vegas is a very fickle market that's about fun. It will change to what people want.

Steve Aoki

ChangeFunPeopleVegasWantWill

Whenever you make a movie, when it's done, as a filmmaker, you never sit there and say, 'Boy, I really got that right.' It's, 'Where did I screw up?'

Rod Lurie

YouDoneSayBoyNeverRight

If you are a 19-year-old woman, there are very specific things that directors and the people in positions of power in the industry - who tend to be older men - are going to want you to be and do. They are not going to want some chatty, difficult, slightly spoilt girl.

Romola Garai

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The Tweets that I have written that are most popular are the ones that are the kind of universal girly concerns and observations.

Mindy Kaling

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Hip-hop was my first audience - I would rap in the mirror, walk down the street and listen to my Walkman.

Derek Luke

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Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Conrad Black

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'100 Bullets' is a novel on its own. 'Brother Lono,' other than the main character, has nothing to do with '100 Bullets.'

Brian Azzarello

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A large part of the problem, is that young people are being born into the world and growing up without much hope. And so, they become murderers, they become suicide bombers.

Arthur Hertzberg

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Missions is not about sending missionaries, and missions is not about doing missions. Missions is about the communication of truth to men.

Paul Washer

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What good was being the king of the rackets in Newark, N.J., if you couldn't have DiMaggio at your dinner table?

Richard Ben Cramer

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