Purportedly Quotes

#1. I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you?

Harlan Coben

#2. Eager to oppose Thomas Paine's prescription in Common Sense for a huge single-house legislature that purportedly embodied the will of "the people" in its purest form. For Adams, "the people" was a more complicated, multivoiced, hydra-headed thing that had to be enclosed within different chambers.

Joseph J. Ellis

#3. As Samuel Johnson purportedly wrote, "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

Adam M. Grant

#4. E pur si muove.
(Albeit It does move.)
[What Galileo purportedly muttered after torturers forced him to recant his theory that the earth orbits the sun.]

Galileo Galilei

#5. In an old culture like Europe, everything has already been done. For people who always complain about everything purportedly being so bad, I want to ask why they don't pack up their things and emigrate.

Carie Maas

#6. As far as I have heard or observed, the principal object is, not that mankind may be well and honestly clad, but, unquestionably, that corporations may be enriched.

Henry David Thoreau

#7. If I wasn't Maryse ... I would want to be.

Maryse Ouellet

#8. Always keep your anger bottled up. You might need a bottle of anger some day when friends come by and won't leave.

Laura Kightlinger

#9. If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

Stanley Kubrick

#10. Thus with most careful devotion Thus with precise attention To detail, interfering preparation Of that which is already prepared Men lighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding, Reflecting a pocket-torch of observation ...

T. S. Eliot

#11. My defensiveness in life really helps me as a driver.

Larry David

#12. To exchange all the goodness and grace of every life in Omelas for that single, small improvement: to throw away the happiness of thousands for the chance of the happiness of one: that would be to let guilt within the walls indeed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#13. While you fear missing a meal, you aren't fully aware of the meals you do eat.

Dan Millman

#14. He who will not grant a favour has no right to ask one.

Publilius Syrus

#15. BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan.

Ambrose Bierce

#16. With Hammer And Nails He Was A Carpenter,With Hammer And Nails He Became A Saviour.

Evans Biya

#17. She no longer fought out of fear for the man she loved. Instead, she fought with an understanding. She was a knife - Elend's knife, the Final Empire's knife.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. Dissidents can't be dissidents forever; we are dissidents because we don't want to be dissidents.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#19. When a director is also a writer, everyone on the production looks to him, knowing he gave birth to the idea. There's a different level of viability.

Peter Landesman

#20. People get ready ... Jesus is coming!

Misty Edwards