Accurately Quotes
255 Accurately quotes by 228 unique authors
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What a frightening thing is the human, a mass of gauges and dials and registers, and we can only read a few and those perhaps…
— John Steinbeck
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Rather than teasing the buyers, we may blame the society in which they lived for setting up a situation where the purchase of ornate cabinets…
— Alain de Botton
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For now, feeling as though my own brain were unhinged or as if the shock had come which must end in its undoing, I turn…
— Bram Stoker
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A mother's nurturing love arouses in children, from their earliest days on earth, an awakening of the memories of love and goodness they experience in…
— M. Russell Ballard
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We are all a volume on a shelf of a library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately…
— Deb Caletti
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Most people believe the mind to be a mirror, more or less accurately reflecting the world outside them, not realizing on the contrary that the…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Grapes are juicy. Strawberries. Oranges. Good pork chops are succulent," said Dusty. "But the word isn't accurately descriptive of a person." Smiling with delight, Ahriman…
— Dean Koontz
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You do understand," she continued, "that unless I had an object to love -- or, more accurately, a someone to love -- if I did…
— William P. Young
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Who Am I? Or (Perhaps More Accurately) Who Else Could Be Me?
— Chuck Klosterman
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When you have a strongly held belief, don't you think it's important to express that belief accurately?
— Michael Crichton
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...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately…
— Deb Caletti
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Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used…
— David Byrne
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In my case such an expression as 'to be fallen for' or even 'to be loved' is not in the least appropriate; perhaps it describes…
— Osamu Dazai
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People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately.
— Oscar Wilde
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My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the…
— Lisa Lutz
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the sad end he met in Afghanistan was more accurately a function of his stubborn idealism--his insistence on trying to do the right thing. In…
— Jon Krakauer
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I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I…
— Oscar Wilde
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If I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible what was the main cause of the ruinous revolution that swallowed up some 60…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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There are times when the human face and body can express the yearning of the heart so accurately that you can, as they say, read…
— Diane Setterfield
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