Core Quotes

1227 quotes by 965 authors

It is understandable that the perspectives of men and women on safety are so different--men and women live in different worlds...at core, men are afraid… — Gavin de Becker
Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley… — Christine Feehan
There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet. — D. H. Lawrence
She couldn't believe what she did then. Before she could stop herself, she leaned up on tiptoes, put her arms around his neck, and kissed… — Julie Garwood
To apologize for your personal absolutes, for what Sandy Pinter calls your â€œCore Attachments,â€ means apologizing for your very existence. — Walter Kirn
the best lie is wrapped around a core of truth — Michael Scott
Thereâ€™s no democratic state thatâ€™s not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. — Gilles Deleuze
Even if I did speak Irish, Iâ€™d always be considered an outsider here, wouldnâ€™t I? I may learn the password but the language of the… — Brian Friel
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core. Rome'll decline and fall again, CortÃ©s'll lay… — David Mitchell
If for nine years I have possessed a goodly apple that is rotten at the core and discover its rottenness only in nine years and… — Ford Madox Ford
Worship isn't destructive, Martin. I know that. I don't. I only know it's the core of his life. What else has he got? He can… — Peter Shaffer
The egotist is all surface; underneath is a pulpy mess and a lot of self-doubt. But the egoist may be yielding and even deferential in… — Robertson Davies
Let silence take you to the core of life. — Unknown Author
Two types of choices seem to me to have been crucial in tipping the outcomes [of the various societies' histories] towards success or failure: long-term… — Jared Diamond
An emptiness rules at its core, a rottenness, a silence when one of you retires to bed without saying good night, when you eat together… — Nikki Gemmell
At the core, our motives are always self-serving, Kate. Altruism is a fog created by sly minds seeking to benefit from the energy and skill… — Ilona Andrews
Pure, hard-core liberals believe in a superior race. They think they're it. They believe they're more intelligent than the general run of mankind, better suited… — Dean Koontz
I think it had whispered to him things about himself which he did not know, things of which he had no conception till he took… — Joseph Conrad
The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history. — Glenn Greenwald
Iâ€™ve watched you barely escape death several times, and each instance killed me a little inside. They may be dormant now, but we have enemies… — Jeaniene Frost

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