Acted Quotes
403 quotes by 372 authors
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There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence. About latent emotions that couldn't be acted out." "Cole's thoughts on page 248 of Linger.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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emotions really exist at the bottom of the personality or at the top. in the middle they are acted. this is why all the world…
— Iris Murdoch
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I cared more about your happiness than your knowing the truth, more for your peace of mind than my plan, more for your life than…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Beliefs are the foundation of actions. Those who believed without doubting, he would say, acted without thinking. And those who acted without thinking were enslaved.
— R. Scott Bakker
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Dearest Cecilia, You’d be forgiven for thinking me mad, the way I acted this afternoon. The truth is I feel rather light headed and foolish…
— Ian Mcewan
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Morgan sighed. "I," she announced, "am so pathetic." "You are not," I said. "I am." She went over and straightened the cling wrap, corner to…
— Sarah Dessen
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Katniss?" He drops my hand and I take a step, as if to catch my balance. "It was all for the Games," Peeta says. "How…
— Suzanne Collins
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As it was, we all acted alone, we were caught alone, and every one of us will have to die alone. But that doesn’t mean…
— Hans Fallada
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She never acted as if she liked him all that much, but then she never acted as if she liked anyone all that much.
— John Green
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Of course, then you nearly crushed to death in front of my eyes. Later I thought of a perfectly good excuse for why I acted…
— Stephenie Meyer
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But just in proportion as this process of extermination has acted on an enormous scale, so must the number of intermediate varieties, which have formerly…
— Charles Darwin
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My head grew muddled with it all; the silly ways adults acted with one another, never saying what they meant, trusting in sighs and glances…
— Melanie Benjamin
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Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Adults always acted like they could fix everything. But they can't. And they know it.
— Jana Oliver
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But now that she had achieved knighthood, and thought and acted as she wanted and decided, for one has to act in this way in…
— Kathy Acker
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Even being a Jedi is something where you look for more. At first you acted as if Jedi was synonymous with hero. It isn't. Being…
— Michael A. Stackpole
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Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all of this was…
— Meg Cabot
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He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away. He thought very broadly of desires and…
— David Foster Wallace
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As a society, you were unwilling to reflect upon the shared pain that united you with those who attacked you. You retreated into myths of…
— Mohsin Hamid
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The boys had asked why, if it acted slowly, was it called quicksand. The Mollusks had replied that, as far as they were concerned, most…
— Ridley Pearson
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