#origin

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author? ↗

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton

#author #ever #more #much #observed

There are no original ideas. There are only original people. ↗

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

#only #original #original ideas #people

I was cut off from the world. There was no one to confuse or torment me, and I was forced to become original. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#confuse #cut #forced #i #me

There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original. ↗

— Joseph Haydn

#confuse #forced #i #me #near

So the reason that the Bay of Pigs failed was that the original promise made by Eisenhower was not kept by the subsequent Administration. It allowed hostile air to wipe out the approaching invasion force. ↗

— E. Howard Hunt

#air #allowed #approaching #bay #eisenhower

Most of my cliches aren't original. ↗

— Chuck Knox

#most #original

Persecution is not an original feature in any religion; but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#any #established #feature #law #marked

I'll admit I wanted to be a pilot, originally. ↗

— Kent McCord

#i #originally #pilot #wanted

What this White House really needs is a chief of staff who can read Machiavelli in the original Italian. ↗

— Mack McLarty

#house #italian #machiavelli #needs #original

By that time I was hooked on a career in academic research instead of one in the pharmaceutical industry that I had originally considered in deciding to get a PhD. ↗

— Paul Berg

#career #considered #deciding #get #had