Below Quotes
930 quotes by 761 authors
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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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So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all…
— Jules Verne
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I'm sorry I never really believed," I said. "Not the way Jack did." "It doesn't make any difference," my mother replied. Her eyes focused on…
— Cameron Dokey
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Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go.
— Robert W. Service
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Literature presents you with alternate mappings of the human experience. You see that the experiences of other people and other cultures are as rich, coherent,…
— Chaim Potok
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For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
— Isabel Allende
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Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.
— China Mieville
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He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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As above, so below, as within, so without.
— Alyson Noel
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Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur:…
— James Joyce
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Outside, the ocean was crashing, waves hitting sand, then pulling back to sea. I thought of everything being washed away, again and again. We make…
— Sarah Dessen
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The smallest decisions made had such profound repercussions. One ten-minute wait could save a life… Or end it… One wrong turn down the right street…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Most of all she loved that when she hugged him her head would rest neatly just below his chin, where she could feel his breath…
— Cecelia Ahern
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We are primarily the products of thinking that happens below the level of awareness.
— David Brooks
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... Where did you go?†“Down below.†“Ugh,†she said. “I’ve heard they’re little better than animals.†Funny. I thought the same thing about most…
— Ann Aguirre
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They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both…
— Jonathan Maberry
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He nuzzled in at her neck kissing and licking her softly just below her ear. “Just a moment †he said. “I need a small…
— Gail Carriger
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Tell me when it's over " Thalia said. Her eyes were shut tight. The statue was holding on to us so we couldn't fall but…
— Rick Riordan
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He had so many ways of climbing into the tree house in his head, escaping the madness below, and pulling the ladder up behind him...
— Abraham Verghese
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Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
— Steven Moffat
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