Amongst Quotes
370 Amongst quotes by 310 unique authors
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My mother has made choices in her life, as we all must, and she is at peace with them. I can see her peace. She…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Christians believe that God came amongst us as a man, do they not? Yet the Muselmen say he was only a prophet, and that God…
— David Clement-Davies
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The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had…
— Joseph Conrad
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To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like…
— Alexandre Dumas
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I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow creature's heart: but…
— Anne Bronte
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The most dangerous enemy of the truth and freedom amongst us is the compact majority
— Henrik Ibsen
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All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.
— Maggie Stiefvater
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Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his…
— Stephen Fry
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As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent.
— E. M. Forster
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Society is endangered not by the great profligacy of a few, but by the laxity of morals amongst all.
— Alexis de Tocqueville
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Every race will have disagreements amongst themselves, but we must put aside our differences, and work together for the advancement of that race" Sandra Forsythe
— Frantz Fanon
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And even if these scenes from our youth were given back to us we would hardly know what to do. The tender, secret influence that…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
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Ingratitude is amongst them a capital crime, as we read it to have been in some other countries: for they reason thus; that whoever makes…
— Jonathan Swift
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Do you know that moment when you paint a landscape as a child and, when you’re maybe under seven or something, the sky is just…
— Alan Rickman
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Peter lost one of his shoes among the cabbages, and the other shoe amongst the potatoes.
— Beatrix Potter
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When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and although we may…
— Veronica Franco
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What do you like to do?” She scuffed a toe amongst the rushes. “Needlework.” “Very restful, isn’t it?” “Well,” said Arya, “not the way I…
— George R. R. Martin
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The funeral is a quiet one, despite the number of mourners present. There are no sobs or flailing handkerchiefs. There is a smattering of color…
— Erin Morgenstern
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The rain increases and umbrellas sprout like mushrooms amongst the graves.
— Erin Morgenstern
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Lord Manu had said it's not people who are evil. True evil exists beyond them. It attracts people. It causes confusion amongst its enemies. But…
— Amish Tripathi
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I have the virtue of being still amongst the living. Some would say that is my only virtue.
— George R. R. Martin
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let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that...…
— Muhammad Iqbal
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On Painting Rats, and the Glorification of Them. They exist without permission. They are hated, hunted and persecuted. They live in quiet desperation amongst the…
— Banksy
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