(1589 quotes found)
“Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.”
W. C. Fields
“There are quantities of human faces, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
“No other offense has ever been visited with such severe penalties as seeking to help the oppressed.”
Clarence Darrow
“Several excuses are always less convincing than one.”
Aldous Huxley
“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks”
Daniel Boone
“Several hard-core Star Wars fans who had tickets for the first showing actually said that when the movie finally began, they started crying. Mainly because they realized that it's 22 years later, and they still haven't lost their virginity.”
Conan O'Brien
“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses”
Caleb Carr
“My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain”
William Shakespeare
“This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy”
Charles Gounod