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4553 quotes by 3042 authors
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Big lots,' I said, seeing the eighty-year-old oaks and shady lawns. The houses were set way back and had iron fences and stone drives. The…
— Kim Harrison
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That's not a real answer.' Says who?' Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps…
— Sarah Dessen
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You never get a straight answer from captains. You should know that by now.
— Jim Butcher
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Can you surf really well, then?" I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh. "Jeez, Nico," I said. "I've never really tried."…
— Rick Riordan
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Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people…
— Maya Angelou
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For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed. The riddle does not exist. If a question can be put at…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If I do not know the will of my Father, and what He requires of me in a certain transaction, if I ask Him to…
— Brigham Young
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That he liked to think of himself as a philosopher. That he questioned all things, even the most simple, to the extent that when someone…
— Nicole Krauss
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We would lie on coral sand, below sugary stars, watching Cassiopeia mount her throne and the Great Bear wash its paws in the South. I…
— Diane Ackerman
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The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything....The novelist teaches…
— Milan Kundera
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Nowadays, if a man living in a civilized country (ha!) hears cannon blasts in his sleep, he will, of course, mistake them for thunderclaps, gun…
— Andrea Camilleri
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You will say that I am old and mad, was what Michaelangelo wrote, but I answer that there is no better way of being sane…
— David Markson
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In so many millennia, the humans never did figurs love out. How much is physical, how much in the mind? How much accident and how…
— Stephenie Meyer
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The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities…
— Bertrand Russell
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Burns from dropped matches, Ms. Lane? Matches one might have dropped while flirting with a pernicious Fae, Ms. Lane? Have you any idea the value…
— Karen Marie Moning
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Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when…
— Joseph Campbell
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Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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After the signing of the Constitution, Benjamin Franklin was asked by a woman on the street, "What have you given us, sir?" Franklin Responded, "A…
— Glenn Beck
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She studied my face for a long minute. "Are you going to help my mom?" It was a simple question. But how do you tell…
— Jim Butcher
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