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456 quotes by 396 authors

He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking… — Peter De Vries
In our country we call this type of mother love teng ai. My son has told me that in men's writing it is composed of… — Lisa See
This symmetrical composition--the same motif at the beginning and at the end--may seem quite "novelistic" to you, and I am willing to agree, but only… — Milan Kundera
To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of… — Richard Dawkins
Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want… — Walt Disney
All looked distant and peaceful and strange. The shore seemed refined, far away, unreal. Already the little distance they had sailed had put them far… — Virginia Woolf
Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing. — Carl Sagan
See, the â€˜small stuffâ€™ is what makes up the larger picture of our lives. Many people are like you, young man. But their perspective is… — Andy Andrews
We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a… — Elie Wiesel
Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life… — Mark Twain
All lives are composed of two basic elements," the squirrel said, "purpose and poetry. By being ourselves, squirrel and raven, we fulfill the first requirement,… — Peter S. Beagle
Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our… — Voltaire
Oneâ€™s lover is oneâ€™s partner in observing and understanding the world. Marriage is a place where joint narratives are composed. If the lover is a… — Philippa Gregory
All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the "elect" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it.… — Mark Twain
As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers and the sharpest thorns, as the heavens are sometimes overcastâ€”alternately tempestuous and sereneâ€”so is the life… — Edmund Burke
every healthy marriage is composed of walls and windows. The windows are the aspects of your relationship that are open to the worldâ€”that is, the… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I hate nature. I really do. Nature is composed entirely of sticks, dirt, fall-down places, biting and stinging things, and savageries too numerous to list.… — Sue Grafton
You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
No, no, one can imagine nothing in the world, not the least thing. Everything is composed of so many isolated details that are not to… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Our life is composed of events and states of mind. How ewe appraise our life from our deathbed will be predicated not only on what… — Stephen Levine

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