Based Quotes
3458 quotes by 2575 authors
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Planning complex, beautiful meals and investing one's heart and time in their preparation is the opposite of self-indulgence. Kitchen-based family gatherings are process-oriented, cooperative, and…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Stripping the protection wards off the ship was bad enough—it's a strong, strong enchantment, demon-based—but when you fell, I had to put a fast spell…
— Cassandra Clare
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The guarantee of safety in a battering relationship can never be based upon a promise from the perpetrator, no matter how heartfelt. Rather, it must…
— Judith Lewis Herman
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All religions are based on obsolete terminology.
— Vladimir Nabokov
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Genuine love is between two people who know they are already complete. Genuine love is based on a new paradigm in which both partners are…
— Gay Hendricks
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Frank stared at her. "But you throw Ding Dongs at monsters." Iris looked horrified. "Oh, they're not Ding Dongs." She rummaged under the counter and…
— Rick Riordan
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Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the…
— C.S. Lewis
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We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good.
— Pete Wentz
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My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t…
— Melina Marchetta
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The fact that fashion goes out of fashion and then comes back into fashion based solely on what a few people somewhere think they can…
— Randy Pausch
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To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own…
— Martha C. Nussbaum
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I like to borrow a metaphor from the great poet and mystic Rumi who talks about living like a drawing compass. One leg of the…
— Elif Safak
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The best lies are based on the truth, at least in part
— Cassandra Clare
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I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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His blessings and His provisions for us are based entirely on HIS GOODNESS and HIS FAITHFULNESS.
— Joseph Prince
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College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Some years ago I was struck by the large number of falsehoods that I had accepted as true in my childhood, and by the highly…
— Rene Descartes
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If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.
— Timothy Keller
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Whole new theories of money were growing here like mushrooms: in the dark and based on bullshit.
— Terry Pratchett
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