Clearly Quotes
2192 quotes by 1642 authors
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Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't.…
— Nick Hornby
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Remembering the ball became for Emma a daily occupation. Every time Wednesday came round, she told herself when she woke up: 'Ah! One week ago...two…
— Gustave Flaubert
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CPR dummy looked like him and had clearly been stabbed. Repeatedly. In the groin. He thought she might have used the dummy for target practice,…
— Gena Showalter
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Just imagine living in a world without mirrors. You'd dream about your face and imagine it as an outer reflection of what is inside you.…
— Milan Kundera
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Clearly,' said Luke, 'something's going on that I don't know about.' Simon looked over at him. 'Sometimes I think that's the motto of my life.
— Cassandra Clare
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When we awake it is the animal, the plant, that thinks in us. Primitive thought without the least disguise. We see a terrible universe, because…
— Jean Cocteau
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Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you…
— Jodi Picoult
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As far as sacred Scripture is concerned, however much froward men try to gnaw at it, nevertheless it clearly is crammed with thoughts that could…
— John Calvin
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Henry shook his head, 'I was drunk,' he said, trying to sound both ashamed and firm in this belief. He remembered the rosebush incident very…
— Anna Godbersen
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The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle…
— Nikolai Gogol
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we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as…
— Julian Barnes
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Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed…
— Charles Baudelaire
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John you say you met in an elevator. Was the elevator going up at the time, or down? This is very important, for going down…
— Groucho Marx
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Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had…
— Jennifer Egan
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The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is…
— Donald Knuth
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I wasn’t sure anymore what made a good marriage. There had to be love, of course, but there were so many different kinds of love.…
— Janet Evanovich
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When I was a junior, my school introduced badminton, which was clearly a P.E. department ploy to get me away from the wrestling room, and…
— Rob Sheffield
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You'll be with me, won't you?" "indeed." "Then what could go wrong?" Lord Sanabalis visibly grimaced. "You clearly do not believe in angry gods.
— Michelle Sagara
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She laughed out loud, a warm, knowing laughter that made me once again wonder about the secret ingredient in these women’s lives. Whatever it was,…
— Anne Fortier
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The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.
— Baruch Spinoza
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