Florence King Quotes

In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.

Florence King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 5, 1936 - January 6, 2016

Topics

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Putting the budget ahead of the policy is the wrong way to do it. It's too often the way it's done in Washington.

Spencer Abraham

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Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration.

Steve Toltz

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I can look at you and say, 'I'm gonna be the biggest artist in the world' because, at the end of the day, it's about the trust I have in God. He's already shown me that I'm gonna fulfil my destiny.

Tory Lanez

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There's something melancholy about professors because they're chronically abandoned. They form these lovely relationships with students and then the students leave and the professors stay the same. It's like they're chronically abandoned.

Josh Radnor

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The biggest change we have to tackle that's out there is that we're digging the hole deeper and deeper and spending is totally out of control. And that's something that, quite frankly, is affecting future generations. You're giving a lot of debt to them and you can't keep doing it. It's not helping anybody.

Jon Runyan

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Certainly being in California has encouraged a sustained commitment to rethinking the nature, purposes, and relevance of the contemporary arts, specifically music, for a society which by and large seems to manage quite well without them.

Brian Ferneyhough

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I've noticed over my 22 years of living that, yes, women can be difficult, and I call myself a ladies' man, thinking I have them figured out. But as men, we will never understand women.

Bow Wow

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It is the small owner who offers the only really profitable and reliable material for taxation. He is made for taxation.

Auberon Herbert

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I've always been a huge mark for Samoa Joe.

Shane Douglas

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I hope that my government can help change Italian mentality.

Mario Monti

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I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

Muriel Rukeyser

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I'm no good at anecdotes.

Kelly Macdonald

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