Deliberately Quotes
459 Deliberately quotes by 387 unique authors
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Teasingly she took the apple from his mouth. Juice ran down his chin. Slowly, deliberately, she leaned over and licked the sweet juice from his…
— Terry Goodkind
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We all perform. It's what we do for each other all the time, deliberately or unintionally. It's a way of telling about ourselves in the…
— Richard Avedon
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... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made,…
— Gretchen Rubin
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There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of man-made evolution, every dog is still only two…
— Neil Gaiman
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For I regard memory not as a phenomenon preserving one thing and losing another merely by chance, but as a power that deliberately places events…
— Stefan Zweig
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise, and one that will tax the reader more…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If you are deliberately trying to create a future that feels safe, you will willfully ignore the future that is likely.
— Seth Godin
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Remember, any lie you are told, even deliberately, is often a more significant fact than a truth told in all sincerity.
— Halldór Laxness
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Faith can be very very dangerous, and deliberately to implant it into the vulnerable mind of an innocent child is a grievous wrong.
— Richard Dawkins
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I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Not too fast," called Raoul. "Let's not scare anyone." "His majesty said with all deliberate speed!" chirped the courier. He flinched under Lerant's glare. "That's…
— Tamora Pierce
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I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more…
— Carl Jung
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Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most adults wander the…
— Dara Horn
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Is politics nothing other than the art of deliberately lying?
— Voltaire
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He was so far from the gallant knights in her romantic fantasies ... He was tarnished, scarred, imperfect. Deliberately he had destroyed any illusions she…
— Lisa Kleypas
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We never thought some guy would deliberately fill our hearts with brown sugar and then pour hot water all over it.
— Terry McMillan
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Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries…
— Alain de Botton
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Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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I would like to visit the factory that makes train horns, and ask them how they are able to arrive at that chord of eternal…
— Nicholson Baker
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The only ethical principle which has made science possible is that the truth shall be told all the time. If we do not penalize false…
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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