Deliberately Quotes
459 Deliberately quotes by 387 unique authors
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It’s the leftover humans. The survivors. They’re the ones I can’t stand to look at, although on many occasions I still fail. I deliberately seek…
— Markus Zusak
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Henry," said Charlotte, who appeared to have recovered from her shock, "if you set yourself on fire deliberately, I will institute divorce proceedings. Now sit…
— Cassandra Clare
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I know that when people pull apart, they usually employ misunderstanding as a weapon, deliberately getting hold of the stick's wrong end, impaling themselves on…
— Salman Rushdie
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Deliberately causing mayhem in Snape's Potions class was about as safe as poking a sleeping dragon in the eye.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Bel Air, I am convinced, was laid out by some diabolic sadist who deliberately decided not to use a compass or a surveyor.
— Groucho Marx
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I'll try to communicate, Taylor said. She spoke slowly and deliberately. Hello! We need help. Is your village close? My village is Denver. And I…
— Libba Bray
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You were joking about the whole please and thank you thing, right?" "Meant every word." A little light danced in his eyes and he very…
— Ilona Andrews
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One of the servants had reported that Daisy had been sneaking around the house at night, deliberately tripping all the traps to keep the mice…
— Lisa Kleypas
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At the heart of the gospel is a God who deliberately surrenders to the wild, irresistable power of love.
— Philip Yancey
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Papa's in a bad way, Locke. I wanted to see you before you saw him - he has some...things he wishes to discuss with you.…
— Scott Lynch
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How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his…
— Jonah Lehrer
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In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step…
— Bertrand Russell
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He bent to put his cheek against hers. His breath against her ear made her shudder with each deliberately spoken word. "I have wanted to…
— Cassandra Clare
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The exquisite code of politeness of the Woosters prevented me clipping her one on the ear-hole, but I would have given a shilling to be…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Dear designer of questionable intent, Please send me a photo of yourself. Please be wearing the knitted pants that you designed. It's not that I…
— Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Cooking is not about convenience and it's not about shortcuts. Our hunger for the twenty-minute gourmet meal, for one-pot ease and prewashed, precut ingredients has…
— Thomas Keller
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Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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I do not mean to imply that television news deliberately aims to deprive Americans of a coherent, contextual understanding of their world. I mean to…
— Neil Postman
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No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.
— Michel de Montaigne
Who Wrote These Deliberately Quotes
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