Block Quotes
1192 quotes by 1012 authors
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In the mornings I used to say goodbye to my wife like someone going to work. I'd leave the house, walk around a few blocks,…
— Orhan Pamuk
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The constancies and equivalences adumbrated work havoc with such settled topical blocks as myth and philosophy, natural reason and revelation, philosophy and religion, or the…
— Eric Voegelin
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John Terry is the perfect skipper. It's obvious Chelsea means everything to him. When he makes those last ditch blocks, team-mates can't help but be…
— Kasey Keller
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Our time here on the earth is short, and our chance to make a difference is tiny. For me the grinding blocks of history came…
— Paul Rusesabagina
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If you smash a city when you're trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the…
— Antony Beevor
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The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person got a speck in their…
— Isobelle Carmody
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If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or…
— Dwayne McDuffie
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Because with time blocking out the bad, memory is always bound to be a bit naive and stupidly optimistic.
— Guy Delisle
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As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson…
— Margaret Carlson
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Modern Architecture died in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 15, 1972, at 3.32 p.m. (or thereabouts), when the infamous Pruitt Igoe scheme, or rather several…
— Charles Jencks
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I was here, and I loaded a shotgun on Independence Day, but I didn't kill anybody. I didn't drone any children. I didn't steal any…
— Adam Kokesh
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But even now, with the crates piled high in the hall, what I see most plainly about the books is that they are beautiful. They…
— Leon Wieseltier
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Exploring Feelings for Young Children with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger's Disorder: The STAMP Treatment Manual offers practical recommendations and creative practices that will certainly help…
— Liane Holliday Willey
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People might have said we were scaremongering. But here we are: the Competition Commission is intervening, for the first time, in the NHS, to block…
— Andy Burnham
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An immigration violation should not give the government license to rip up the rule book. By restricting judicial oversight and blocking public scrutiny, the government…
— Jamie Fellner
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Yo, I'm god incarnate. From the grimiest back blocks. Pazienza lyrical equivalent of Sasquatch
— Vinnie Paz
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My blood G cold, never seen my dad cry. And I'm a bleed your block til the cash dry!
— Vinnie Paz
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Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and…
— Kami Garcia
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Holding on to anything blocks wisdom.
— Pema Chodron
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The great paradox is that our lack of faith in love and miracles is what blocks us from receiving love and miracles.
— Gabrielle Bernstein
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