1973 · Skopia

Showing 72 quotes from 1973

It ain't over till it's over.

1973

★ 8.9

Supreme Court opinion · Legal writing

This right of privacy...is broad enough to encompass a woman's decision whether or not to terminate her pregnancy.

Harry A. Blackmun

1973

★ 7.0

Film · Horror (film) · Horror

The Power of Christ compels you!

The Exorcist · 1973

★ 7.0

Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.

1973

★ 6.9

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.

Gravity's Rainbow · 1973

★ 6.9

What did the president know and when did he know it?

Howard H. Baker, Jr.

1973

★ 6.9

Song · Reggae music

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your right. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Get Up, Stand Up · 1973

★ 6.5

Political literature · Historical literature

If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Gulag Archipelago · 1973

★ 6.0

Song · Reggae music

Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Don't give up the fight.

Get Up, Stand Up · 1973

★ 5.5

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

1973

★ 5.3

Essay · Magazine

Much of modern art is devoted to lowering the threshold of what is terrible. By getting us used to what, formerly, we could not bear to see or hear, because it was too shocking, painful, or embarrassing, art changes morals.

Freak Show · 1973

★ 5.2

We have a cancer within, close to the Presidency, that is growing.

1973

★ 5.2

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go-if there are no doors or windows-he walks through a wall.

Bernard Malamud

1973

★ 5.1

Film · Crime (film) · Crime

A man's got to know his limitations.

Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan

Magnum Force · 1973

★ 4.6

A myth is a religion in which no-one any longer believes.

James K. Feibleman

Understanding Philosophy · 1973

★ 4.4

I have 14 other grandchildren and if I pay one penny now, I'll have 14 kidnapped grandchildren.

1973

★ 4.4

Novel · Science fiction

Maybe Jesus was right when he said that the meek shall inherit the earth-but they inherit very small plots, about six feet by three.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love · 1973

★ 4.3

Novel · Science fiction

The most preposterous notion that Homo sapiens has ever dreamed up is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of all the Universes, wants the saccharine adoration of His creatures, can be swayed by their prayers, and becomes petulant if He does not receive this flattery. Yet this absurd fantasy, without a shred of evidence to bolster it, pays all the expenses of the oldest, largest, and least productive industry in all history.

Robert A. Heinlein

Time Enough for Love · 1973

★ 4.2

Autobiography and memoir

Music is my mistress, and she plays second fiddle to no one.

1973

★ 3.8

Personal journal

Get up quickly-just switch on the white light of the will.

1973

★ 3.7

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