After Them Quotes
120 After Them quotes by 106 unique authors
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Wild Swans' showed me there are Chinese traditions that still affect my life. For example, it's not that women are inferior, exactly, but my dad…
— Katie Leung
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After man there would be the mighty beetle civilisation, the bodies of whose members the cream of the Great Race would seize when the monstrous…
— H P Lovecraft
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Women while in college ought to have the broadest possible education. This college education should be the same as men's, not only because there is…
— M. Carey Thomas
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It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are…
— Ulysses S. Grant
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It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be…
— George Eliot
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You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
— Harrison Ford
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I am damn good. I am doing all this for Egypt and nothing else. I reject 70 per cent of media interviews while these people…
— Zahi Hawass
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I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high…
— Peter King
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The generality of virtuous women are like hidden treasures, they are safe only because nobody has sought after them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
— William Shakespeare
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Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
— Bill Vaughan
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When women go wrong, men go right after them.
— Mae West
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She had, without realizing it at the time, learned to follow Nick's gaze, learned to learn his lust...his desires remained memorized within her. She looked…
— Lorrie Moore
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I believe that an author who cannot control her characters is, like a mother who cannot control her children, not really fit to look after…
— Margery Allingham
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The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings…
— Naomi Novik
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Words... They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension…
— Tom Stoppard
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Take full account of what Excellencies you possess, and in gratitude remember how you would hanker after them, if you had them not.
— Marcus Aurelius
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I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything.…
— Stephen King
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Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly.…
— Robert Fulghum
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I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the…
— Sylvia Plath
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And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?" And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into…
— Mark Haddon
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I watched her for a long time, memorizing her shoulders, her long-legged gait. This was how girls left. They packed up their suitcases and walked…
— Janet Fitch
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My books happen. They tend to blast in from nowhere, seize me by the throat, and howl 'Write me! Write me now!' But they rarely…
— Robin McKinley
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God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don't run after them.
— Rick Warren
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My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look…
— M. Russell Ballard
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