Devoted Quotes
515 quotes by 458 authors
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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be susceptible, are called…
— John Stuart Mill
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Remember that the best and greatest among mankind are those who do themselves no worldly good. Every successful man is more or less a selfish…
— Thomas Hardy
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So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take…
— Alexandre Dumas
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The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
— Douglas Coupland
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We've devoted our lives to learning about them!" Miro said. Ender stopped. "Not from them.
— Orson Scott Card
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We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water.
— Derrick Jensen
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Poetry, the best of it, is lunar and is concerned with the essential insanities. Journalism is solar (there are numerous newspapers named The Sun, none…
— Tom Robbins
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Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Beloved sister Devoted Friend She saved the world A lot
— Joss Whedon
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No wonder so many sermons are devoted exclusively to "spiritual" subjects. If one is living by the tithes of history's most destructive economy, then the…
— Wendell Berry
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The way I see it,†she began, “your mother’s devoted her whole life to you kids.†She said “you kids†in precisely the same tone…
— Jennifer Weiner
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Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals…
— Sarah Vowell
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It was not death or dying that frightened him, but the unexpectedness of both. In sorting it all out, he hit on the notion that…
— Toni Morrison
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I walked among Shadows, and found a race of furry creatures, dark and clawed and fanged, reasonably manlike, and about as intelligent as a freshman…
— Roger Zelazny
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Beware of being obsessed with consistency to your own convictions instead of being devoted to God. The important consistency in a saint is not to…
— Oswald Chambers
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An old market had stood there until I'd been about six years old, when the authorities had renamed it the Olde Market, destroyed it, and…
— Neal Stephenson
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What hinders me from hearing is that I am taken up with other things. It is not that I will not hear God, but I…
— Oswald Chambers
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Like most North Americans of his generation, Hal tends to know way less about why he feels certain ways about the objects and pursuits he's…
— David Foster Wallace
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Dear and most respected bookcase! I welcome your existence, which has for over one hundred years been devoted to the radiant ideals of goodness and…
— Anton Chekhov
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In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic—until the day I learned that animals have no souls.
— Susan Kay
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I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.
— Anne Rice
Who Wrote These Devoted Quotes
458 authors contributed a total of 515 Devoted Quotes, led by these top contributors: