Begin Quotes
4334 quotes by 2712 authors
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There's in people simply an urge to destroy, an urge to kill, to murder and rage, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great…
— Anne Frank
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We will begin by learning how to tie our shoes.
— John Wooden
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Cleverness, after all, has its limitations. Its mechanical judgments and clever remarks tend to prove inaccurate with passing time, because it doesn't look very deeply…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Have you noticed how easily the very young die? They make the best martyrs for any cause, the best soldiers, the best suicides. It's because…
— Tana French
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I remember laughing with relief that the same old adolescent boredom goes on from generation to generation. ...the words took me back to my own…
— Julian Barnes
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Jessica, I know I've been...difficult," he said. "All the same—" "Difficult?" She looked up, her grey eyes wide, "You have been impossible. I begin to…
— Loretta Chase
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There comes a moment, when you get lost in the woods, when the woods begin to feel like home.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance…
— Leo Tolstoy
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Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And…
— Walt Disney
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We have a definite but unknown quantity of experience at our disposal. As soon as the hourglass is turned, the sand will begin to run…
— Pablo Picasso
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Truly, Autumn is my season,†the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; you must begin from zero, because the past…
— Isabel Allende
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There is no getting around the fact that the moment you are at your very best is the moment you begin to become worse and…
— Charlie Higson
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Only when it is seen that what decides each individual's destiny is whether or not God decides to save him from his sins, and that…
— J I Packer
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This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything…
— Erykah Badu
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To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how…
— Alan Bennett
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When we're focused on what we want, things begin to slot perfectly into place.
— Paulo Coelho
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I do not insist," answered Don Quixote, "that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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Josh will begin disappearing into a future where the only place he and I remain friends is on the Internet.
— Jay Asher
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I'm not interested in anybody's guilt. Guilt is a luxury that we can no longer afford. I know you didn't do it, and I didn't…
— James A. Baldwin
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