Quotes about many
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Source: The Kiss of Deception
“You are so easily flattered, brother.'
'Because I have so many qualities to praise!”
Source: The Blood of Olympus
“One can give up many things for love, but should not give up oneself”
Variant: One can give up many things for love, but one should not give up oneself.
Source: The Bane Chronicles
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 7, “Of Beginnings and the Names of Things” (p. 58)
Context: I have been called Kvothe the Bloodless, Kvothe the Arcane, and Kvothe Kingkiller. I have earned those names. Bought and paid for them.
But I was brought up as Kvothe. My father once told me it meant “to know.”
I have, of course, been called many other things. Most of them uncouth, although very few were unearned.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the University at a younger age than most people are allowed in. I tread paths by moonlight that others fear to speak of during day. I have talked to gods, loved women, and written songs that make the minstrels weep.
You may have heard of me.
Source: Spirit Bound
Variant: There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I do know is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.
Source: Love, Rosie
Source: Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
Source: At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Source: Media Control: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda
“Philosophy, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.”
The Devil's Dictionary (1911)
Source: The Devil's Dictionary and Other Works
“Had I as many souls as there be stars, I'd give them all for Mephistopheles!”
“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
Source: The Bell at Sealey Head
“For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.”
Source: Love Is a Dog from Hell
“Ikkaku: Rescue her? How many of you are here? Seven? Maybe eight?
Ichigo: Five people and a cat”
Scopes Trial, Dayton, Tennessee (13 July 1925)
Source: The Heavenly Man: The Remarkable True Story of Chinese Christian Brother Yun
“I dwell in a lonely house I know
That vanished many a summer ago.”
Source: In the Company of Cheerful Ladies
“Not many people can lay claim to having broken Time, and we did it purely by accident.”
Source: The Search for the Red Dragon
“Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!”
Source: His Majesty's Dragon
“The important question is, How many hands have I shaked?”
Source: Gregor and the Code of Claw
Source: No One Belongs Here More Than You
Surfacing (1972) p. 107
The premise for this quote is now known to be a linguistic myth stemming from the early 20th century work of Franz Boas. This quote by Atwood has been cited as an example of the perpetuation of this myth https://books.google.ca/books/about/White_Lies_about_the_Inuit.html?id=i-osjdNH3g8C.
Variant: The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it was important to them; there ought to be as many for love.
“Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?”
Source: The Old Man and the Sea
“My father always said that too many words cheapened the value of a man's speech.”
Source: Raven's Shadow
“You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.”
"The Owl who was God", The New Yorker (29 April 1939); Fables for Our Time & Famous Poems Illustrated (1940). Parody of "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time
Source: The Jane Austen Book Club
Source: First Comes Marriage
Source: Jeremy Fink and the Meaning of Life
“The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places.”
Source: A Farewell to Arms
Source: Tuesdays with Morrie
Variant: We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest;
And deal full many a thoughtless blow,
To those who love us best.
1960s, Remarks at the signing of the Immigration Bill (1965)
Context: This bill says simply that from this day forth those wishing to immigrate to America shall be admitted on the basis of their skills and their close relationship to those already here. This is a simple test, and it is a fair test. Those who can contribute most to this country; to its growth, to its strength, to its spirit; will be the first that are admitted to this land. The fairness of this standard is so self-evident that we may well wonder that it has not always been applied. Yet the fact is that for over four decades the immigration policy of the United States has been twisted and has been distorted by the harsh injustice of the national origins quota system. Under that system the ability of new immigrants to come to America depended upon the country of their birth. Only 3 countries were allowed to supply 70 percent of all the immigrants. Families were kept apart because a husband or a wife or a child had been born in the wrong place. Men of needed skill and talent were denied entrance because they came from southern or eastern Europe or from one of the developing continents. This system violated the basic principle of American democracy; the principle that values and rewards each man on the basis of his merit as a man. It has been un-American in the highest sense, because it has been untrue to the faith that brought thousands to these shores even before we were a country. Today, with my signature, this system is abolished. We can now believe that it will never again shadow the gate to the American nation with the twin barriers of prejudice and privilege. Our beautiful America was built by a nation of strangers. From a hundred different places or more they have poured forth into an empty land, joining and blending in one mighty and irresistible tide. The land flourished because it was fed from so many sources; because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. And from this experience, almost unique in the history of nations, has come America's attitude toward the rest of the world. We, because of what we are, feel safer and stronger in a world as varied as the people who make it up; a world where no country rules another and all countries can deal with the basic problems of human dignity and deal with those problems in their own way. Now, under the monument which has welcomed so many to our shores, the American nation returns to the finest of its traditions today. The days of unlimited immigration are past. But those who do come will come because of what they are, and not because of the land from which they sprung.
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
Source: Autumn Leaves
“There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.”
“In the end, like so many beautiful promises in our lives, that dinner date never came to be.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“There is too little mystery in the world; too many people say exactly what they feel or want.”
Source: The Art of Seduction
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
Source: The Silent Sister
Source: The Book of Sand and Shakespeare's Memory
Source: An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
“A woman of many talents. And intelligent, too. He'd probably have to kill her soon.”
“Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.”
Maxim 52, p. 259
Maxims for Her Nuns (1963)
Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila, Volume III
Variant: Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Source: Sense and Sensibility
“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”
Source: The Art of Racing in the Rain
Travis Parker, Chapter 4, p. 51
Source: 2000s, The Choice (2007)
“I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.”
“We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”
Letter to John Adams (1774)
“I think we have established in so many ways that I am hot enough for the both of us”
Source: City of Heavenly Fire
