Anyhow Quotes
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It's not the sort of night for bed anyhow; and daybreak is not so very far off...
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More Anyhow Quotes
I am parshial to ladies if they are nice I suppose it is my nature. I am not quite a gentleman but you would hardly notice it but cant be helped anyhow.
daisy ashford— Chapter 1 (The Young Visiters (1919))
College dont amount to much anyhow. A lot of narrow minded, musty old ideas despensed by uninterested teachers to pupils who have come to college for athletics, because they considered it the stylish thing or to keep from going to work.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Edna Mann (October 30, 1926)
...it's not my job to preach a sermon. Art is anyhow a homily. My job is to speak in living images, not in arguments. I must exhibit life full-face, not discuss life.
nikolai vasilievich gogol— A letter to Zhukovsky, January 1848, quoted in Sculpting in Time (p49) by Andrei Tarkovsky
It is best to live anyhow, as one may; do not be afraid of marriage with your mother! Many have lain with their mothers in dreams too. It is he to whom such things are nothing who puts up with life best.
Sophocles— Jocasta to Oedipus, her son and husband, before they both discover the truth of the prophecy. OedipusTyrannus, 979-83 (translated by H Lloyd-Jones,1994).
The management question, therefore, is not whether to build a pilot system and throw it away. You will do that. […] Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.
fred brooks— Page 116 (italics in source)
I retained no records and I am not a good writer anyhow. So the best approach is for historians like you to extract the facts directly from people like me.
shunroku hata— Quoted in "Nomonhan: Japan Against Russia, 1939" - by Alvin D. Coox - Page 1184 - 1990
If the attractive virtue of the moon extends as far as the earth, it follows with greater reason that the attractive virtue of the earth extends as far as the moon and much farther; and, in short, nothing which consists of earthly substance anyhow constituted although thrown up to any height, can ever escape the powerful operation of this attractive virtue.
johannes kepler— As quoted by Bryant, ibid.
How easy it would have been flatly to have told the boy that his pilgrim was only an old tramp of some kind, and then to have commanded him not to think otherwise. But by allowing the boy to see that a question was possible, he had rendered such a command ineffective before he uttered it. Insofar as thought could be governed at all, it could only be commanded to follow what reason affirmed anyhow; command it otherwise, and it would not obey.
walter m. (jr.) miller— Ch 4 (Fiat Homo)
Differential equations won't help you much in the design of aeroplanes — not yet, anyhow.
nevil shute— Rawdon, the aircraft designer, to Morris, his aspiring protege.
— Stephen Morris, ch. 3, p. 41 (1923, published posthumously in 1961)
What matters the party to me? I shall find enough anyhow who unite with me without swearing allegiance to my flag.
max stirner— Dover 2005, p. 236
“You're such a liar.” “But I’m a beautiful liar, don’t you think?” She flashed her best smile at her friend. “I don’t understand what men see in women anyway,” her friend answered. “Hexes or no hexes, as long as a woman has her clothes on a man can’t see what he’s interested in anyhow.”
orson scott card— Chapter 10 (Alvin Journeyman (1995))
If the house is to be demolished tomorrow anyhow, people seem to feel, we may as well burn the furniture today. None of our problems are insoluble...But it seems clear that to prevail we humans will have to act with a smartness and selflessness that has so far eluded us during our long and tangled history.
arthur c. clarke— Chapter 4 (The Light of Other Days (2000))
Giving me a new idea is like handing a cretin a loaded gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang, bang.
— Letter to Patricia Warrick (17 May 1978), published in Selected Letters of Philip K. Dick, 1977-1979 (1993)
Never explain your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
elbert hubbard— The Motto Book (1907)
In the larger scale of things, his opinions didn’t count anyhow. The politicians made the decisions, and the voters paid no attention.
jack mcdevitt— Chapter 4 (p. 31)
If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow.
william mcfee— Book II: The City, Ch. II
A horsefly can't do a horse much real damage, but it can drive it wild anyhow.
harry turtledove— p. 127 (The United State of Atlantis (2008))
Since the passing of Victoria the Great there had been an accumulating uneasiness in the national life. It was as if some compact and dignified paper-weight had been lifted from people's ideas, and as if at once they had begun to blow about anyhow.
— The Soul of a Bishop (1917)
I never saw a Purple Cow, I never hope to see one; But I can tell you, anyhow * I'd rather see than be one.
gelett burgess— Gelett Burgess, The Purple Cow.
Never explain. Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyhow.
elbert hubbard— Elbert Hubbard, in The Motto Book (1907).
The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast Table (1872), XI.
'Cause I's wicked, I is. I's mighty wicked, anyhow, I can't help it.
harriet beecher stowe— Uncle Tom's Cabin, chapter 20 (1852)
Most men of business think "anyhow this system will probably last my time. It has gone on a long time, and is likely to go on still."
walter bagehot— Ch. I, Introductory
anyhow, it is a different situation now to what it was then; Clemenceau had power; I shall wait until Winston is bust.
david lloyd george— A. J. Sylvester's diary entry (3 October 1940), Colin Cross (ed.), Life with Lloyd George. The Diary of A. J. Sylvester 1931-45 (London: Macmillan, 1975), p. 281.
