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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Quotes

People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

People Be True True Try More Mean

At different times in your life, your body needs different things.

Life Body Your Body Things Different

Religious people know deep down that that is the most vulnerable area of their lives, and when others question it, they are liable to hit out and feel insulted. You know it is absolutely without proof, yet people still commit themselves totally to this belief. They cannot refute it because it is so central to their lives.

People Deep Feel You Down Know

If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kind am I? Well, to be honest... I'm a Wildstorm kinda guy. In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I write for Wildstorm. But even if I didn't, I'd love what they do. No, seriously, I'd love their stuff.

Love People World Kind Seriously

Why should American atrocities be merely unsettling, but a trip to Hanoi unconscionable?

American Why Trip Should Atrocities

I was playing rugby and the other games English school children do, and there was an event in which races were run, and I won these by a considerable margin.

Roger Bannister

Children School Run Games Playing

We did the two-year extension of Bush tax cuts in 2010. We negotiated the Budget Control Act in August of 2011 and the fiscal cliff deal at the end of 2012, which saved 99 percent of Americans from a tax increase.

Mitch McConnell

Control End Budget Tax Cliff Act

Wyoming is a special place: Where our farmers and ranchers rise before dawn and work until night to feed our nation. Where our coal miners and oil field workers produce the energy that powers America's homes and businesses, and where our families are guided by faith, know the value of hard work, and deeply love our land.

Work Hard Work Love Faith Value

Crossing the line and being world champion, I've always dreamt about it, and now I've done it. It's quite a surreal feeling, but obviously very special.

Lizzie Armitstead

World Champion Feeling Done Now

Spike Lee is obviously more stupid than anyone can be by accident.

Stupid More Accident Than Anyone

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Dreams Parents Like Our Use Needed

I don't care about age very much. I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

Life Age People Growing Up Think

Cynicism means the conduit to the soul has a great kink in it, like a garden hose in which nothing flows in either direction.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Great Soul Direction Garden Nothing

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