Clearly Quotes
2192 quotes by 1642 authors
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If you look at history, even recent history, you see that there is indeed progress. . . . Over time, the cycle is clearly, generally…
— Noam Chomsky
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The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for the future. The…
— Brennan Manning
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Jesus?" he whispered as his voice choked "I feel so lost" A hand reached out and squeezed his, and didn't let go. "I know Mack.…
— William P. Young
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You can think clearly only with your clothes on.
— Margaret Atwood
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Except for cases that clearly involve a homicidal maniac, the police like to believe murders are committed by those we know and love, and most…
— Sue Grafton
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The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and…
— Nancy Mitford
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The morning air of the pasture turned steadily cooler. Day by day, the bright golden leaves of the birches turned more spotted as the first…
— Haruki Murakami
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Behind me, Marc made a soft whistling sound, clearly impressed. “That’s not standard procedure,†he said, his tone entirely too reasonable as he leaned over…
— Rachel Vincent
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So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it…
— Robert Fulghum
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Clearly, mythology is no toy for children. Nor is it a matter of archaic, merely scholarly concern, of no moment to modern men of action.…
— Joseph Campbell
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Until that moment, I hadn’t realized that I embarked on the project of touring historic sites and monuments having to do with the assassinations of…
— Sarah Vowell
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If you participate in life, you don’t see it clearly: you suffer from it too much or enjoy it too much. The artist, to my…
— Gustave Flaubert
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The writer must be universal in sympathy and an outcast by nature: only then can he see clearly.
— Julian Barnes
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Clearly the Old One had the capacity to kill - or easily deliver some sort of final ending that sounded remarkably like death.
— Garth Nix
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When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting…
— C.S. Lewis
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There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
— Douglas Adams
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With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had…
— Henry Miller
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As we grow detached from things, we come (with God's help) to master our desires, and we give the mastery over to God. Discipline and…
— Scott Hahn
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We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men; in…
— Karl Popper
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A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called "leaves") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance…
— Carl Sagan
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