Bench Quotes
219 quotes by 197 authors
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[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the…
— Thomas Watson
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I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play…
— Charles Bukowski
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your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench…
— Charles Bukowski
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I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory; the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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And that's when Anna realized that what the wolf had been asking Bran for was death. Impulsively, Anna stepped away from Charles. She put a…
— Patricia Briggs
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Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless,…
— Cinda Williams Chima
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Ordinary folk prefer familiar tastes - they'd sooner eat the same things all the time - but a gourmet would sample a fried park bench…
— Walter Moers
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There was nothing new in sitting on this dock, on this or that wooden bench, watching for his boat to come. In some ways, she…
— Ann Brashares
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After tiny has tried ballerina pose, swing-batter-batter pose, pump-up-the-jam pose, and top-of-the-mountain-sound-of-music pose in the reflection of the bean, he walks us to a bench…
— David Levithan
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I envy the music lovers hear. I see them walking hand in hand, standing close to each other in a queue at a theater or…
— Charles de Lint
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I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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And for all those years, we never talked about the disaster at the recital or my terrible accusations afterward at the piano bench. All that…
— Amy Tan
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At teenage parties he was always wandering into the garden, sitting on a bench in the dark . . . staring up at the constellations…
— Mark Haddon
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God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was…
— C.S. Lewis
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We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers…
— Khalil Gibran
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God, I got lucky. If I'd hurt it, it would have put me out of practice for a while.†Smiling, he returned to his chair.…
— Richelle Mead
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They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found…
— Haruki Murakami
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I'm counting to ten in my head." "Is it helping?" "No." "It doesn't help me with you either. I used to life weights to alleviate…
— Ilona Andrews
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Marry me. Nay, marriage will cost us precious moments together. Let us make sweet, passionate love right here. Let me bear your children.†A primal…
— Kiersten White
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Throughout the day, Stargirl had been dropping money. She was the Johnny Appleseed of loose change: a penny here, a nickel there. Tossed to the…
— Jerry Spinelli
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