Coarse famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

It is not only the prisoners who grow coarse and hardened from corporal punishment, but those as well who perpetrate the act or are present to witness it.
-- Anton Chekhov

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It is bad taste for a poet to be coarse and hairy.
-- Aristophanes

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I shall start at the beginning. Though of coarse, the beginning is never where you think it is.
-- Diane Setterfield

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It is hideous and coarse to assume that we can do something for others-and it is vile not to endeavor to do it.
-- Edward Dahlberg

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I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

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Money: in its absence, we are coarse; in its presence, we are vulgar.
-- Mignon McLaughlin

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Only very coarse persons wanted wars.
-- Pearl S. Buck

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Being brave isn't supposed to be easy.
Most of My Friends are two-thirds water
The new is not revealed to those whose eyse are fastened in worship upon the old.
Certain kinds of speed, flow, intensity, density of attacks, density of interaction... Music that concentrates on those qualities is, I think, easier achieved by free improvisation between people sharing a common attitude, a common language.
The truth is that brains have little to do with either the making or accumulating of money.
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you are outside...notice the first bird you seeâ€¦you are beholding a unique individual with personality traits, an emotional profile, and a library of knowledge built on experienceâ€¦what you are witnessing is not just biology, but a biography.
I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.
There are two types of courage involved with what I did. When it comes to picking up a rifle, millions of people are capable of doing that, as we see in Iraq or Vietnam. But when it comes to risking their careers, or risking being invited to lunch by the establishment, it turns out that's remarkably rare.
Above all the grace and the gifts that Christ gives to his beloved is that of overcoming self.
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical, physical, and biological laws. A more productive, certainly more engaging view, is that we have the intelligence to grasp what is happening, the composure not to be intimidated by its complexity, and the courage to take steps that may bear no fruit in our lifetimes.