Top 24 Quotes About Lamp Posts

#1. When it's been a long day of climbing, and I feel like I can't go any farther, I concentrate on the next three feet. And then the next three feet; and then the next three feet. Pretty soon, I'm at the top.

Royal Robbins

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#2. I just long for the day when I wake up and find that the Saudi royal family are swinging from lamp-posts.

Ken Livingstone

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#3. The world's evaluations of an individual's social worth, like the slits in my eyeballs, change with time and circumstance. In point of fact my pupil-slits vary but modestly between broad and narrow, but mankind's judgements turn somersaults and cartwheels for no conceivable reason.

Soseki Natsume

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#4. What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Honore De Balzac

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#5. He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts ... for support rather than illumination.

Andrew Lang

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#6. The wildest hath not such a heart as you.
Run when you will, the story shall be changed:
Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase;
The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind
Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed,
When cowardice pursues and valour flies.

William Shakespeare

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#7. Men lived among mighty mountains and eternal forests for ages before they realized that they were poetical; it may reasonably be inferred that some of our descendants may see the chimney-pots as rich a purple as the mountain-peaks, and find the lamp-posts as old and natural as the trees.

G.K. Chesterton

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#8. The road to Hell is paved with the bones of priests and monks, and the skulls of bishops are the lamp posts that light the path.

Saint John Chrysostom

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#9. If the American people knew what we have done, they would string us up from the lamp posts.

George H. W. Bush

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#10. If I only had a nickel; I'd spend it on a dime.

Tim Wayne

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#11. I took another punch for the parrots. It's like boxing with the sun. Just watch the sparks FLY!!!

Jes Fuhrmann

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#12. I'm equally sure, however, that I won't walk into a lamp-post while reading {literature}, like I did with {a legal thriller} all those years ago; you don't walk into lamp-posts when you're reading literary novels, do you?

Nick Hornby

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#13. Critics are to authors what dogs are to lamp-posts.

Jeffrey Robinson

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#14. God bless my father, but he always spoke in this continental, literary accent, probably because he was a professor of comparative literature and he made the decision to speak with distinction.

Nicolas Cage

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#15. I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

Matt Smith

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#16. He uses statistics like a drunk uses lamp-posts, more for support than illumination.

Romano Prodi

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#17. The digital revolution is almost as disruptive to the traditional media business as electricity was to the candle business.

Ken Auletta

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#18. An unsophisticated forecaster uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts - for support rather than for illumination.

Andrew Lang

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#19. Chase's ability to adjust his manner of leadership to the needs of his men begs comparison to one of the greatest and most revered leaders of all time, Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Nathaniel Philbrick

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#20. Love is a beautiful feeling.

Kabir Bedi

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#21. Frankly, I'm not responsible for other people's perceptions and what they consider real or fake. We must abolish the entitlement that deludes us int believing that we have the right to make assumptions about people's identities and project those assumptions onto their genders and bodies.

Janet Mock

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#22. Determine to pray more words over your marriage than you speak about your marriage.

Lysa TerKeurst

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#23. My good friend Paul Shaffer and I are going to continue in show business. Next month Paul and I will debut our new act at Caesar's Palace with our white tigers.

David Letterman

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#24. Education opens the door for an extraordinary life.

Debasish Mridha

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