Branch Quotes
433 Branch quotes by 361 unique authors
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Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest…
— Aristotle
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If it is perfectly acceptable for a widow to disfigure herself or commit suicide to save face for her husband's family, why should a mother…
— Lisa See
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Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end;…
— Ayn Rand
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I wanted to tell them that, in Kabul, we snapped a tree branch and used it as a credit card. Hassan and I would take…
— Khaled Hosseini
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Philosophy, from the earliest times, has made greater claims, and achieved fewer results, than any other branch of learning.
— Bertrand Russell
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At a well in a yard they met a man who was beating a boy. The stick burst into a flower in the mans hand.…
— C.S. Lewis
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Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.
— J. G. Ballard
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Tall oaks branch charmed by the earnest stars Dream and so dream all night without a stir.
— John Keats
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Divinity must live within herself: Passions of rain, or moods in the falling snow; Grievings in loneliness, or unsubdued Elations when the forest blooms; gusty…
— Wallace Stevens
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Thunder rumbled. My heart beat faster. I turned away from Evernight for the last time and looked back at the flower as it trembled upon…
— Claudia Gray
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She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun and…
— Zora Neale Hurston
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He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far…
— Patrick O'Brian
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You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I…
— Pablo Neruda
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Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch…
— Leonard Cohen
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I shake my head. I pick up the rake and start making the dead-leaf pile neater. A blister pops and stains the rake handle like…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Who do you suppose decided that the birds are free? Even if they can fly the skies unless they have a destination and a branch…
— Kazuya Minekura
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The weeping of the guitar begins. The goblets of dawn are smashed. The weeping of the guitar begins. Useless to silence it. Impossible to silence…
— Federico Garcia Lorca
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I thought told you to watch where you put your feet," he said accusingly. Erak shrugged. I did," he replied ruefully. "But while I was…
— John Flanagan
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Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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Mr. Freeman: You are getting better at this, but it's not good enough. This looks like a tree,but it is an average, ordinary, everyday, boring…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
Who Wrote These Branch Quotes
361 authors contributed a total of 433 Branch Quotes, led by these top contributors: