Corner Quotes
1346 Corner quotes by 1067 unique authors
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When the heart is hard and parched up, come upon me with a shower of mercy. When grace is lost from life, come with a…
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Who knows what may lie around the next corner? There may be a window somewhere ahead. It may look out on a field of sunflowers.
— Joe Hill
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Patience is always rewarded and romance is always round the corner!
— Ayn Rand
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She [my mother] was the force around which our world turned. My mother was propelled through the universe by the brute force of reason. She…
— Nicole Krauss
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Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of…
— Haven Kimmel
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Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept…
— Franz Kafka
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Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry…
— William Shakespeare
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The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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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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Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.
— Rohinton Mistry
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I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal ability…
— Bret Easton Ellis
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Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run, but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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But do you really mean, Sir," said Peter, "that there could be other worlds-all over the place, just round the corner-like that?" "Nothing is more…
— C.S. Lewis
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Love was in the air, so both of us walked through love on our way to the corner.
— Daniel Handler
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No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of…
— Dean Koontz
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Before I got here, I thought for a long time that the way out of the labyrinth was to pretend that it did not exist,…
— John Green
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It is always sad when someone leaves home, unless they are simply going around the corner and will return in a few minutes with ice-cream…
— Daniel Handler
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I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings." -from the…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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[A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room.…
— Isaac Asimov
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With the arrogance of youth, I determined to do no less than to transform the world with Beauty. If I have succeeded in some small…
— William Morris
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Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I flicked my eyes over to Steve again and saw him straighten. He would need a diversion just to start. “Explanations?” I bellowed. “Explanations? There’s…
— Stephen Fry
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Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
— Rick Riordan
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Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for…
— Alberto Manguel
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When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness, and man left to himself with…
— Blaise Pascal
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