(1816 quotes found)
“Take special care that thou never trust any friend or servant with any matter that may endanger thine estate; for so shalt thou make thyself a bond-slave to him that thou trustest, and leave thyself always to his mercy”
Walter Raleigh Sr.
“Suit the action to the world, the world to the action, with this special observance, that you overstep not the modesty of nature.”
William Shakespeare
“Why isn't there a special name for the tops of your feet?”
Lily Tomlin
“Care more for the individual patient than for the special features of the disease. . . . Put yourself in his place . . . The kindly word, the cheerful greeting, the sympathetic look -- these the patient understands.”
William Osler
“Man is a special being, and if left to himself, in an isolated condition, would be one of the weakest creatures; but associated with his kind, he works wonders”
Daniel Webster
“Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.”
William S. Burroughs
“The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space.”
Claude Levi-Strauss
“The capacity to blunder slightly is the real marvel of DNA. Without this special attribute, we would still be anaerobic bacteria and there would be no music.”
Lewis Thomas
“I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.”
Clive Barker
“What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.”
Andre Agassi
