Altogether Quotes
599 Altogether quotes by 493 unique authors
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I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward…
— Jane Austen
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It made you feel very small, very lost, and yet it was not altogether depressing, that feeling. After all, if you were small, the grimy…
— Joseph Conrad
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Of all man’s instruments, the most wondrous, no doubt, is the book. The other instruments are extensions of his body. The microscope, the telescope, are…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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You have to learn to look at someone you truly adore through eyes that really aren´t your own. It´s as if a person has to…
— Ron McLarty
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We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.
— Louis L'Amour
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I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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If you would listen, sir, in the sense of being aware of your conflicts and contradictions without forcing them into any particular pattern of thought,…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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When we are in love, our love is too big a thing for us to be able altogether to contain it within ourselves. It radiates…
— Marcel Proust
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I could remember the details as if it had happened yesterday, even though it was hard to believe some of it had happened at all.…
— Kami Garcia
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She could not explain or quite understand that it wasn't altogether jealousy she felt, it was rage. And not because she couldn't shop like that…
— Alice Munro
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I always know it's Sunday because I wake up feeling apologetic. That's one of the cool things about being a Catholic . . . it's…
— Janet Evanovich
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...and it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.
— Colum McCann
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True prayer is done in secret, but this does not rule out the fellowship of prayer altogether, however clearly we may be aware of its…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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I know how you guys feel about us. I'm not stupid, and believe me, I've tried to get you out of my head. But there…
— Richelle Mead
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Altogether it will be found that a quiet life is characteristic of great men, and that their pleasures have not been of the sort that…
— Bertrand Russell
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What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded.…
— Angela Carter
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Please tell me a story about a girl who gets away." I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to…
— Helen Oyeyemi
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I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment…
— Joan Didion
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If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which…
— Neil Postman
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No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the…
— Alan Watts
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There was a burst of laughter so sudden Miri jumped to her feet in alarm. Bena and Liana had pushed Peder out of the bed…
— Shannon Hale
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I watched for her hair to curl, the telltale Caster breeze. It didn't move. This wasn't Caster magic she was working. It was another kind…
— Kami Garcia
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She was disappearing a little more each day, so thin, so frail, a wisp of smoke. One day she would surely vanish altogether, and there…
— Alice Hoffman
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it…
— Thomas Carlyle
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