Always Quotes

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An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may… — Jane Austen
Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch. — Jane Austen
I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety. — Jane Austen
One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty. — Jane Austen
It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. — Jane Austen
You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an… — Paul Auster
Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years. — Paul Auster
I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious. — Paul Auster
Movies are not novels, and that's why, when filmmakers try to adapt novels, particularly long or complex novels, the result is almost always failure. It… — Paul Auster
What used to keep me up at night was the fact that I didn't know how I was going to pay the rent. Now that… — Paul Auster
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. — Richard Avedon
My mother always said I must be part Mongolian because of my lotus-pale complexion and squid-ink black hair. — Diane Ackerman
Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects… — Teresa of Avila
God has been very good to me, for I never dwell upon anything wrong which a person has done, so as to remember it afterwards.… — Teresa of Avila
Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man… — Teresa of Avila
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now… — Teresa of Avila
If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance… — Teresa of Avila
Whenever we think of Christ, we should recall the love that led Him to bestow on us so many graces and favors, and also the… — Teresa of Avila
A wingnut is someone on the far-right wing or far-left wing of the political spectrum - the professional partisans, the unhinged activists and the paranoid… — John Avlon
We try to exile ourselves more and more from nature - not always consciously: We build houses; we dismiss nature; nature has to be outside,… — Diane Ackerman

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