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An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil ZatopekRead
Polaroid by its nature makes you frugal. You walk around with maybe two packs of film in your pocket. You have 20 shots, so each shot is a world.
Patti SmithRead
COMMERCE, n. A kind of transaction in which A plunders from B the goods of C, and for compensation B picks the pocket of D of money belonging to E.
Ambrose BierceRead
QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually about as many times as it can be got there.
Ambrose BierceRead
A photographer is part pick-pocket and part tightrope dancer.
Henri Cartier-BressonRead
The truth is not a crystal that can be slipped into one's pocket, but an endless current into which one falls headlong.
Robert MusilRead
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket.
H. L. MenckenRead
Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it wears a ring set with diamonds.
Benjamin FranklinRead
There are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate army doing duty not only as cooks, servants and laborers , but as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may to destroy the Federal Government and build up that of the traitors and rebels.
Frederick DouglassRead
...there are at the present moment many colored men in the Confederate Army...as real soldiers, having muskets on their shoulders, and bullets in their pockets, ready to shoot down loyal troops, and do all that soldiers may do to destroy the Federal government...There were such soldiers at Manassas and they are probably there still.
Frederick DouglassRead
You love me so much, you want to put me in your pocket. And I should die there smothered.
D. H. LawrenceRead
As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
Viggo MortensenRead
There is no praise to bear the sort that you put in your pocket.
MoliereRead
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubble in amber.
Neil GaimanRead
Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand.
Albert EinsteinRead
I don't smoke but I keep a match box in my pocket, when my heart slips towards sin, I burn the matchstick and heat my palm with it, then say to myself, "Ali you can't even bear this heat, how would you bear the unbearable heat of hellfire?"
Muhammad AliRead
Pocket all your knowledge with your watch, and never pull it out in company unless desired.
Lord ChesterfieldRead
Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket. "Where does it come from?" "From the men who give it to you. That's the only way to get it.
Brandon SandersonRead
HAND, n. A singular instrument worn at the end of the human arm and commonly thrust into somebody's pocket.
Ambrose BierceRead
He reached for his pocket, and found there, only reality
Victor HugoRead
If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)
Victor HugoRead

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