Top 14 Quotes About Emendation
#1. I have always suspected that the reading is right, which requires many words to prove it wrong; and the emendation wrong, that cannot without so much labour appear to he right.
Samuel Johnson
#2. There's more for us to think about in that one little hungry heart than in all the stars of the sky ...
Thomas Hardy
#3. In a materialistic society, man is likely to value the opinion of a rich man over that of a poor one; even when coming to opinions that have absolutely nothing to do with moneymaking.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#4. But what ultimately made Yates the scourge of copy editors was his simple aversion to criticism; any emendation in his manuscript, be it a single semicolon, would cause dark alcoholic brooding, which would finally erupt in long, hectoring, semicoherent phone calls.
Blake Bailey
#5. I had a good theater career for years. I played Hamlet when I was 22, and I've played some really great roles.
Jason Gann
#6. Joy doesn't exist out in the world somewhere. Joy is an inside job.
Lynn A. Robinson
#7. If you want to become that close to 'God', die instead.
Kazuya Minekura
#8. There's no such thing as a number of heartbeats. As long as your heart knows what forever means, it's possible that even in afterlife, it may still be beating.
Jessamine Verzosa
#9. G.K. Chesterton said: People are equal in the same way pennies are equal. Some are bright, others are dull; some are worn smooth, others are sharp and fresh. But all are equal in value for each penny bears the image of the sovereign, each person bears the image of the King of Kings.
Tim Chester
#10. No matter how flawed someone else may be, that doesn't give us the right to be less than we are, does it? We are decent people and we repay our debts.
Jean Kwok
#11. Every emendation of Anne's had been on the side of honesty against importance. She wanted more vigorous measures, a more complete reformation, a quicker release from debt, a much higher tone of indifference for everything but justice and equity.
Jane Austen
#12. Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness.
Catherine Carrigan
#13. My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.
Philip Zimbardo
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