(53 quotes found)
“Then I asked: `Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: `All Poets believe that it does, and in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains; but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of anything.'”
William Blake
“I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.”
William Shakespeare
“When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes and asked whether he could do anything for the famed teacher, Diogenes replied: 'Only stand out of my light.' Perhaps some day we shall know how to heighten creativity. Until then, one of the best things we c”
John W. Gardner
“(Solon) being asked, namely, what city was best to live in, "That city," he replied, "in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers”
Plutarch
“Should it be said that the Greeks discovered philosophy by human wisdom, I reply that I find the Scriptures declare all wisdom to be a divine gift”
Clement of Rome
“I have been racking my brains and can find no reply [to] this very reasonable question. I can only suggest that the fictional part of me dried up.”
E. M. Forster
“[When FightNews asked what's after Hopkins, Taylor replied,] Anyone who steps up, it don't make a difference to me. ... As long as I can.”
Jermain Taylor
“After I said that to him, Aziz replied: 'then we can't talk any further.'”
Richard Butler
“He makes his claim about me after I've written a column sharply critical of his May 2004 budget reply, so that tells us a lot about what he says and why he says it. Things won't change much between journalists and politicians; Latham was a freak, a one-off.”
Shaun Carney
“Mike made an accusation in closed session, and Dr. Thompson replied,”
David Kelley
