"You canâ€™t bite your nose off to spite your face."

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Paul Merson

#Noses Quotes #Faces Quotes #Your Face Quotes

“Precedents deliberately established by wise men are entitled to great weight. They are evidence of truth, but only evidence...But a solitary precedent...which has never been reexamined, cannot be conclusive.”
“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.”
“My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea, even switch me to different subject matter. So I start out with my mind as free from image as the silver film on which I am to record, and I hope as sensitive.”
“Let me tell you the story about Massachusetts under Governor Romney. It did fall to 47th out of 50 in jobs creation. Wages went down when they were going up in the rest of the country. He left his successor with debt and a deficit, and manufacturing jobs left that state at twice the rate as the rest of the country.”

Source : "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. June 1, 2012.
“We say 'forest' but this word is made of the unknown, the unfamiliar, the unencompassed. The earth. Clods of dirt. Pebbles. On a clear day you rest among ordinary, everyday things that have been familiar to you since childhood, grass, bushes, a dog (or a cat), a chair, but that changes when you realize that every object is an enormous army, an inexhaustible swarm.”

Source : Witold Gombrowicz (2011). “Cosmos: A Novel”, p.104, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Readers should aspire to what is excellent. They should refuse to read a substitute Bible. They should want a Bible that calls them to their higher selves - or to something higher than their current level of attainment.”

Source : "Differences in Bible Translations". Bible Translation Magazine Interview, christianpublishinghouse.co. October 10, 2016.
“Philosophy is problem-solving. There's a philosophical problem, and then you try to solve it by approaching it from different angles and seeing what way works. That's what comedy is: you have a topic and you try to just hit it as many different ways as you can.”

Source : Interview with Jane Marie, believermag.com. January 1, 2015.
“I do not know beneath what sky nor on what seas shall be thy fate; I only know it shall be high, I only know it shall be great.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1908). “Along the Trail”

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