Best Among Them Thoughts
253 Among Them quotes by 222 unique authors
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among…
— Virginia Woolf
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There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.
— Mark Twain
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...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to…
— Virginia Woolf
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All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them.
— Jacqueline Carey
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MUSIC I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you,…
— Conrad Aiken
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Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.
— Jane Smiley
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In our memories, there is a graveyard where we bury our dead. They all lie there together, the loved ones and the ones we hated,…
— Steven Brust
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For although we know that the years pass, that youth gives way to old age, that fortunes and thrones crumble (even the most solid among…
— Marcel Proust
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When the taste for physical gratifications among them has grown more rapidly than their education . . . the time will come when men are…
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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It was only when Shona, in sheer fury, turned the carnivorous sheep among them that they moved. They ran, some of them with charming little…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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...the people who move through the streets are all strangers. At each encounter, they imagine a thousand things about one another; meetings which could take…
— Italo Calvino
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Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....
— Dean Koontz
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Just looking at them I grow greedy, as if they were freshly baked loaves waiting on their shelves to be broken open--that one and that--and…
— Linda Pastan
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And there were other rocks that were like animals, creeping, horrible animals, putting out their tongues, and others were like words I could not say,…
— Arthur Machen
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That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was…
— Nicholas Sparks
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3:12 pm Secretly, I admit, I find many of my classmates annoying. I've often thought to myself, 'Good grief, these people are five-year-olds. Why must…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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The Wickans know that the gift of power is never free. They know enough not to envy the chosen among them, for power is never…
— Steven Erikson
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During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me. Remarkably, according to what…
— Alan Alda
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To me, these people were as exotic as animals in a zoo. I'd never seen anything like them. I wasn't sure whether I wanted to…
— Augusten Burroughs
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
— John Irving
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais…
— Cormac McCarthy
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I can hear President Snow's voice in my head. 'On the seventy-fifth anniversary, as a reminder to the rebels that even the strongest among them…
— Suzanne Collins
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Men had no purpose on earth whereas women were gods walking unrecognized among them.
— Kate Atkinson
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One is seduced and battered in turn. The result is presumably wisdom. Wisdom! We are clinging to life like lizards. Why is it so difficult…
— James Salter
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