After Them Quotes
120 After Them quotes by 106 unique authors
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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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She wanted to say, no. She wanted to say, I have a son, there is a child, this cannot happen. Because you know that no…
— Maggie O'Farrell
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Frankly, our ancestors don't seem much to brag about. I mean, look at the state they left us in, with the wars, the broken planet.…
— Suzanne Collins
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The hippogriff took off into the air. . . . He and his rider became smaller and smaller as Harry gazed after them . .…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What lingered after them was not life, which always overcomes natural death, but the most trivial list of mundane facts: a clock ticking on a…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Sometimes people run… to see if you'll come after them
— Ally Carter
Who Wrote These After Them Quotes
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