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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1809 - October 7, 1894

Topics

Good Stillness Person Signal Marks

I say I'm not a control freak and I don't like to be in charge. But on the other hand, I really don't like anyone telling me what to do. I have some authority issues.

Me Control Say Authority Hand Freak

Babies don't need a vacation, but I still see them at the beach... it pisses me off! I'll go over to a little baby and say 'What are you doing here? You haven't worked a day in your life!'

Life Beach Day Vacation Me Baby

When I looked very closely to the Bible and to Jesus, this Christ who came, I discovered something awesome. I discovered that when He's first, then He places me in a second position that's above the class that I was given by other men.

Men Me Bible Places Class First

I've been given benefits from the day I was born. A loving family. A great education. So I see it as an obligation, as a Christian and as a human being, to help.

Family Education Great Day Help See

A lot of people want Trump to be impeached. I do not. Because just when you think Trump is awful, you remember Mike Pence. Mike Pence is what happens when Anderson Cooper isn't gay.

People Think Remember You Gay Want

I'm not a great consumer. I always ask myself, 'Do I really need that piece?' I have friends who have 300 pairs of shoes; how would you leave the house in the morning?

Mireille Guiliano

Morning Great Shoes Myself Friends

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child.

Jonathan Tropper

Child Book Own Like Your Performing

My pride fell with my fortunes.

William Shakespeare

Money Pride Fell Fortunes

The only agency of the federal government with a more demoralized workforce than Homeland Security is the Small Business Administration, a notorious turkey farm that should have been abolished years ago.

Business Government Small Security

It's a non-stop invention, this game of life, and as soon as you think you've got it, you lose it.

Life Game Think You Lose Invention

How can you judge one film against another?

Judge You Against Film How Another

More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races, but because China has enjoyed such a long and continuous history as a polity, there has been thousands of years of mixing, melding and assimilation.

History Believe Long More China

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