Deliberately Quotes
459 Deliberately quotes by 387 unique authors
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She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her…
— Haruki Murakami
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Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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The body is the servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind, whether they be deliberately chosen or automatically expressed.
— James Allen
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They who have no central purpose in their life fall an easy prey to petty worries, fears, troubles, and self-pitying, all of which are indications…
— James Allen
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Such beauty, he thought, was too perfect to have come about by mere chance. That day in the center of the Pacific was, to him,…
— Laura Hillenbrand
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You kill strangers deliberately so you don't accidentally kill the people you love.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Cursed?" I offered, my voice croaky because of my unshed tears. "It isn't cursed." John said deliberately, rearranging the chain around my neck, "if you're…
— Meg Cabot
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Live deliberately. Decide: are you the kind of person things happen to, or the kind of person who makes things happen?
— James A. Owen
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Most of the brain's work is done while the brain's owner is ostensibly thinking about something else, so sometimes you have to deliberately find something…
— Neal Stephenson
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In all the ills that befall us, we are more concerned by the intention than the result. A tile that falls off a roof may…
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
— Bill Watterson
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You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this nascent life. To…
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Sometimes I wanted to believe something so badly, I deliberately manufactured excuses and ignored painful reality.
— Sylvia Day
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I've been told, by various people, that I think too much. This is incorrect! The truth is that I deliberately challenge people to think more…
— Wayne Gerard Trotman
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By all means break the rules, and break them beautifully, deliberately and well.
— Robert Bringhurst
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I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately…
— Maureen Johnson
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There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.
— Arundhati Roy
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Jeff is the annoying kind of Scrabble player who plays a lot of obscure two-letter words that shouldn't count but for whatever reason are considered…
— Bennett Madison
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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately...
— Henry David Thoreau
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