#removed

Many a person who started out to conquer the world in shining army has ended up just getting along. The horse got tired, the army rusty. The goal was removed and unsure. ↗

— Robert A. Cook

#army #conquer #ended #getting #goal

Our writers are full of cliches just as old barns are full of bats. There is obviously no rule about this, except that anything that you suspect of being a cliche undoubtedly is one and had better be removed. ↗

— Wolcott Gibbs

#anything #barns #bats #being #better

A writer who presents men and women as creatures truncated below the waist is exposed as one who goes about without his trousers saying, 'see, I have had my testicles removed.' ↗

— Norman Lindsay

#below #creatures #exposed #goes #had

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. ↗

— Epicurus

#did #far #i #knew #learn

You become so encapsulated in this world of being a star. People listen to what you say, you have this voice, it becomes unreal and you become far removed from the people you came from. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#becomes #being #came #far #listen

But, of course, she didn't mean that she was going to retire from public life and only when the Queen removed her HRH some years later did she actually drop a hundred charities and just kept five. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#charities #course #did #drop #five

In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#also #arms #cease #defense #hostilities

There used to be a real me, but I had it surgically removed. ↗

— Peter Sellers

#i #me #real #removed #used

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#been #being #being lied to #happy #lied

It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#believe #christ #christians #easy #established