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Liberalism demands that people without guns be able to tell people with guns what to do.
— Stephen Holmes
Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I wasn't a big science-fiction fan growing up. But I loved Jules Verne and Sherlock Holmes. Both came into play on 'The X-Files.'
— Chris Carter
The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I believe you are a wizard, Mr. Holmes.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I really like defensive players. I've never played defense so I often wonder how they think.
— Priest Holmes
Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.
— Ernest Holmes
which he was evidently setting upon himself had suddenly and utterly burst asunder. Holmes and I glanced at each other, and Hall Pycroft
— Arthur Conan Doyle
A three-pint problem
— Melvyn Small
Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I followed you.'
I saw no one.'
That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I saw no one.'
That is what you may expect to see when I follow you. — Arthur Conan Doyle
THE CASE BOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
At Christmas, all roads lead home.
— Marjorie Holmes
Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
Georgius Secundus was then alive,
Snuffy old drone from the German hive. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The only condition of peace in this world is to have no ideas, or, at least not to express them.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I think people can benefit tremendously from really asking why they're doing certain things,
— Elizabeth Holmes
Trust in your own self more than in all else.
— Ernest Holmes
It is all in the way of professional experience.
- Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
- Sherlock Holmes — Arthur Conan Doyle
Everything in life responds to the song of the heart.
— Ernest Holmes
I had this idea that I would write a companion cookbook to 'Barbara the Slut.' The recipes would be like, 'Put the Lucky Charms in the bowl.'
— Lauren Holmes
The petitioner may have a constitutional right to talk politics, but he has no constitutional right to be a policeman.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Prepare your mind to recieve the best that life has to offer.
— Ernest Holmes
If you can eat sawdust without butter, you can be a success in the law.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Through the art of affirmative prayer the limitless resources of the Spirit are at my command. The power of the Infinite is at my disposal.
— Ernest Holmes
My strength is breaking people down. I may not outrun or outsize you, but I will make you miss.
— Priest Holmes
The bishop is a lot like me ... just when you think you have me, I'm already behind you.
— Priest Holmes
No one can rob us of our own soul, and our spirit is already one with the eternal goodness.
— Ernest Holmes
Detached reflection cannot be demanded in the presence of an uplifted knife.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
— Ernest Holmes
While we've youth in our hearts, we can never grow old.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Jerry Jones and Chris Christie are probably the most important latent homosexual relationship since Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson.
— Kinky Friedman
One who has learned to love all people will find plenty of people who will return that love.
— Ernest Holmes
Men without jobs do not form families.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
The more power one gives to his thought
the more completely he believes that his thought has power
the more power will it have. — Ernest Holmes
the more completely he believes that his thought has power
the more power will it have. — Ernest Holmes
We are born to create, and we can't help it. Why is that? Because God, the great Creator, is in us.
— Ernest Holmes
A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
There's no police like Holmes.
— James Joyce
They were brought up in these ruins and no longer notice them.
— John Clellon Holmes
With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.
— Eleanor Holmes Norton
All the power of the universe is with you. Feel it, know it, and then act as though it were true.
— Ernest Holmes
The game is afoot.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Who are you, then?" "My name is Sherlock Holmes." "Good Lord!" "You have heard of me, I see.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I believe in the unlimited power of women in the context of science and engineering.
— Elizabeth Holmes
There is in all men a demand for the superlative, so much so that the poor devil that has no other way of reaching it attains it by getting drunk.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I've never doubted my ability.
— Priest Holmes
Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
When you write from the heart, you not only light the dark path of your readers, you light your own way as well.
— Marjorie Holmes
And he has guns and dogs that would make the Hound of Baskervilles seem like a bleeding Pekinese.
— David Baldacci
Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Why can't somebody give us a list of things everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of the things that everybody says but nobody thinks?
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
The thought of immortality is as well founded as any other well authenticated postulate of the human reason.
— John Haynes Holmes
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Poverty comes pleading not for charity, for the most part, but imploring us to find a purchaser for its unmarketable wares.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.
— Elizabeth Holmes
I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Every idea is an incitement ... eloquence may set fire to reason.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Our test of truth is a reference to either a present or imagined future majority in favour of our view.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!
— Jake Holmes
Let us waste no further time looking for the secret of success or the key to happiness. Already the door is open and whosoever will may enter.
— Ernest Holmes
Excellent!" I cried. "Elementary," said he.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Jesus was not the great exception; he was the great example.
— Ernest Holmes
Life is an end in itself, and the only question as to whether it is worth living is whether you have had enough of it.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I'd love to build a brand, a legacy.
— Ryan Holmes
Never limit your view of life by any past experience.
— Ernest Holmes
You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes
Caring about something can make you do things you shouldn't.
— Kathryn Holmes
Everything necessary to the full and complete expression of the most boundless experience of joy is mine now.
— Ernest Holmes
You cannot help being a female, and I should be something of a fool were I to discount your talents merely because of their housing.
— Laurie R. King
I won't say I won't fight again but I don't think anyone wants to fight me so I am finished and I will just continue with boxing exhibitions.
— Larry Holmes
The intensely felt subjective image is always the reason for making a first rate picture.
— Henry Holmes Smith
Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes had the baby. He was there for the birth. It would've been nice if he was there for the conception.
— Joan Rivers
I should like to see any kind of man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Virtual currencies, used to buy digital goods inside online games, have become an integral part of the Internet landscape.
— Ryan Holmes
You have been in Afghanistan I perceive.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
History has to be rewritten because history is the selection of those threads of causes or antecedents that we are interested in.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Desultory readers are seldom remarkable for the exactness of their learning.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
All other men are specialists, but his specialism is omniscience.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
You can never foretell what any one man will do, but you can say with precision what an average number will be up to.
— Sherlock Holmes Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When prayer removes distrust and doubt and enters the field of mental certainty, it becomes faith; and the universe is built on faith.
— Ernest Holmes
Men of character always differentiate their long letters, however illegibly they may write. - Sherlock Holmes
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I loved Sherlock Holmes as a kid, but I remember being disappointed when he'd come up with these simple explanations for these complex mysteries.
— Peter Weir
Many of us have had that experience of being in love with someone and then they end up being your enemy and there's a stranger in your bed.
— Rachel Holmes
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip
the bottom out of their boat. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.