Cross Quotes
2149 Cross quotes by 1410 unique authors
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Virginia Woolf wrote, "Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword." On one side of that sword, she said,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life…
— Milan Kundera
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Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
— Neil Gaiman
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Life is about love. It's about whom you love and whom you hurt. Life's about how you love yourself and how you hurt yourself. Life's…
— Matthew Kelly
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And I wanted to tell her that the pleasure for me wasn't planning or doing or leaving; the pleasure was in seeing our strings cross…
— John Green
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The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a passionflower vine and…
— Janet Fitch
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I am the planet's most affectionate life-form, something like the cross between a golden retriever and a barnacle.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
— James Thurber
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Cross a man and you struggle, one of you wins, you adjust and go on - or you lie there dead. Cross a woman and…
— Gregory Maguire
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Lucas had told me only one lie, ever; he kept the secret of black Cross because it wasn’t his secret to tell. In every other…
— Claudia Gray
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It is a fine line, in all of us, between civilization and savagery. To any who think they would never cross it, I can only…
— Jacqueline Carey
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...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent…
— Patrick O'Brian
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We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A person cannot coast along in old destructive habits year after year and accept whatever comes along. A person must stand up on her own…
— Garrison Keillor
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The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!
— C.S. Lewis
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A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Vishous's chest expanded. . . and his diamond stare slowly swung to Butch. There was a heartbeat of intensity. Then V reached out and repositioned…
— J R Ward
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It seemed to me that the people who made the rules of the road had figured out everything that would help a person drive safely…
— Joan Bauer
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Fresh from a costume fitting, where I had been posing in front of the mirror assuming what I thought was a strong position - arms…
— Helen Mirren
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And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to…
— Jodi Picoult
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The real marriage of true minds is for any two people to possess a sense of humor or irony pitched in exactly the same key,…
— Edith Wharton
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Lena was an introvert. She knew she had trouble connecting with people. She always felt like her looks were fake bait, seeming to offer a…
— Ann Brashares
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Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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He could feel V's eyes sharpen, the vampire's fierce intellect churning over the situation. Among the brothers, Vishous had the most raw brainpower, but he…
— J R Ward
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The question of why evil exists is not a theological question, for it assumes that it is possible to go behind the existence forced upon…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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