Basic Quotes
2162 quotes by 1594 authors
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Can true function arise from basic dysfunction?
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Covert Operations Report At approximately 0900 hours on Saturday, October 14, Operative Morgan was given a stern lecture by Agent Townsend, a tracking device by…
— Ally Carter
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Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.†He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?†“Because we acknowledge the importance…
— Kathy Reichs
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The crisis of physical hunger is essentially a crisis of faith. What or whom will you trust to meet your most basic needs? Will you…
— Charles R. Swindoll
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In the most basic terms it was about how when we experience art without critical awareness we consent to the ideas being promoted, either intentionally…
— Simon Pegg
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Why is it you think you'll live forever and why do you want to, I'd like to know, when you deny yourselves so many of…
— Nora Roberts
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A house is a compressed territory where our basic needs can be fulfilled close by and safely.
— Yann Martel
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Was there some basic flaw in her makeup that made her keep falling in love with this man who couldn’t love her back?
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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It needs more than ever to be stressed that the best and truest educators are parents under God. The greatest school is the family. In…
— R.J. Rushdoony
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I loved her more than she loved me, that was the problem. A basic imbalance. Relationships like that never last, however hard you try. And…
— Lisa Jewell
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There are four basic food groups: plain chocolate, milk chocolate, dark chocolate, and white chocolate.
— Jill Shalvis
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My name is Kirby Rose, and I'm adopted. I don't mean to make it sound like an AA confession, although sometimes that's how people take…
— Emily Giffin
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Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and…
— Ringo Starr
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Next year, Equality Now will celebrate - if that’s the word - will clock its twentieth year. Two decades of fighting the good fight, fighting…
— Joss Whedon
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It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
— Sarah Dessen
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Because when something happens, she's the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love.
— David Levithan
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No," I replied testily. "I'm pretty sure 'digital' is Latin for 'fingeral,' so finger cancer equals digital cancer. This is all basic anatomy, Dr. Roland."…
— Jenny Lawson
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Rather than raising his voice like everyone else, he leaned close to my ear and asked, "Dance with me?" I felt his warm breath and…
— Tammara Webber
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These characters were like twelve-bar blues or other chord progressions. Given the basic parameters of Batman, different creators could play very different music.
— Grant Morrison
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Time for Wine Tasting 101. “So here’s how this works. When tasting a wine, as opposed to casual drinking, there are four basic steps you…
— Julie James
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