Built Quotes
2368 quotes by 1817 authors
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A general “law of least effort†applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving…
— Daniel Kahneman
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An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
— Jodi Picoult
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Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I…
— Stephen King
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don’t believe the war is simply the work of politicians and capitalists. Oh no, the common man is every bit as guilty; otherwise, people and…
— Anne Frank
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That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our…
— Isaac Marion
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He can't possibly live up to the person you've built him to be
— Gayle Forman
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Even if you find him. Even if he didn't leave you on purpose, he can't possibly live up to the person you've built him into."…
— Gayle Forman
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Everyone had a weakness. It was the law of nature that for each being there was a predator, or a disease, or a vulnerability built…
— Ilona Andrews
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Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The sports arena Julie calls home is unaccountably large, perhaps one of those dual-event 'super venues' built for an era when the greatest quandary facing…
— Isaac Marion
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Good marriages are built upon a combination of emotional love and a common commitment to a core of beliefs about what is important in life…
— Gary Chapman
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Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul.
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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Mariano the Second had been the son of a fisherman, but he'd suffered from an unfortunate tendency toward seasickness and was forced to find a…
— Ally Carter
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Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom…
— Arthur Koestler
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It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's…
— Dan Wells
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Even if you find him. Even if he didn’t leave you on purpose, he can’t possibly live up to the person you’ve built him into.
— Gayle Forman
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I you can't see anything beautiful about yourself, get a better mirror. Look a little closer, stare a little longer. Because there is something inside…
— Shane Koyczan
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I love enemies, though not in the Christian way. They amuse me, excite my blood. Being always on one’s guard, catching every glance, the significance…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that she could situate…
— Ruth Ozeki
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Some crushes just never went away. They built, instead, into something permanent, obsessive and all consuming.
— Maya Banks
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