Casts Quotes
1262 quotes by 1037 authors
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The shadow by my finger cast Divides the future from the past: Before it, sleeps the unborn hour, In darkness, and beyond thy power. Behind…
— Henry Van Dyke
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In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may…
— Rebecca Solnit
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A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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But I'd rather look like you than be pretty," she told Anne sincerely. Anne laughed, sipped honey from the tribute, and cast away the sting.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see your nation cast down and…
— Naomi Novik
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She cast her fragrance and her radiance over me. I ought never to have run away from her... I ought to have guessed all the…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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i have had my ups and downs but wotthehell wotthehell yesterday sceptres and crowns fried oysters and velvet gowns and today i herd with bums…
— Don Marquis
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My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot.
— Ashleigh Brilliant
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When the groundhog casts his shadow And the small birds sing And the pussywillows happen And the sun shines warm And when the peepers peep…
— Margaret Wise Brown
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I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die.
— William Shakespeare
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Heaven's brightest and best-loved angel, who was cast out for inspiring a rebellion against God. Having lost Heaven, Lucifer and his rebel angels vowed to…
— Libba Bray
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Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself the soul being…
— James Joyce
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I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
— Mother Teresa
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... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks…
— Louisa May Alcott
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In the woods too, a man casts off his years, as the snake his slough, and at what period soever of life, is always a…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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You know, there's a big world out there filled with desperate orphans who would gladly swim across an ocean of thumbtacks just to be eclipsed…
— Daniel Handler
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Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won…
— Winston Churchill
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A poem should be odd as a small cast-iron platypus.
— Dean Young
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If Adam and Eve were not hunter-gatherers, then they were certainly gatherers. But, then, consumer desire, or self-embitterment, or the 'itch,' as Schopenhauer called it,…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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No reflection was to be allowed now, not one glance was to be cast back; not even one forward. Not one thought was to be…
— Charlotte Bronte
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