Expressions Quotes
350 Expressions quotes by 312 unique authors
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Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real…
— Marvin J. Ashton
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In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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To have a full stomach, to daze lazily in the sunshine--such things were remuneration in full for his adors and toils, while his ardors and…
— Jack London
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Of all facial expressions, which is the worst to have aimed at you? Wouldn't you agree it's disgust?
— Leif Enger
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I try to see the whole woman,' Eddie said to Hannah. 'Of course I recognize that she's old, but there are photographs - or the…
— John Irving
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You're growing up. And rain sort of remains on the branches of a tree that will someday rule the Earth. And it's good that there…
— Jim Carroll
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She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it give birth to…
— Thornton Wilder
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Throughout history humans have inflicted countless violent, cruel, and hurtful acts on each other, and continue to do so. Are they all to be condemned;…
— Eckhart Tolle
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Actions are not impostions on who we are, but are expressions of who we are. They come out of our heart and the inner realities…
— Dallas Willard
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Wanderer: You don't really feel that way about me you know. It's this body... she's pretty isn't she? Ian: She is. Melanie is a very…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It used to be just CIA agents with ear-pieces who walked round with preoccupied, faraway expressions, and consequently regarded all the little people as irrelevant…
— Lynne Truss
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Blushing is the most peculiar and most human of all expressions.
— Charles Darwin
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For the authentic revolutionary conservative, what really counts is to be faithful not to past forms and institutions, but rather to principles of which such…
— Julius Evola
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You reach a moment in life when, among the people you have known, the dead outnumber the living. And the mind refuses to accept more…
— Italo Calvino
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In reading we must become creators. Once the child has learned to read alone, and can pick up a book without illustrations, he must become…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Sorrow, terror, anguish, despair itself are often the chosen expressions of an approximation to the highest good. Our sympathy in tragic fiction depends on this…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Our lives of service and sacrifice are the most appropriate expressions of our commitment to serve the Master and our fellowmen.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in…
— N. T. Wright
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Individuality, family, and community are, by definition, expressions of singular organization, never of "one-right-way" thinking on the grand scale. Children and families need some relief…
— John Taylor Gatto
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Zuzana arched an eyebrow. She was a master of the eyebrow arch, and Karou envied her for it. Her own eyebrows did not function independently…
— Laini Taylor
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You don't believe it because you don't understand," he said hoarsely. "Prosper was different. He wasn't like other people. He might have hated me, but…
— Catherine Jinks
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They spoke very little of their mutual feeling; pretty phrases and warm expressions being probably unnecessary between such tried friends.
— Thomas Hardy
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She would make facial expressions as though she were having conversations with people in her head.They seemed to turn into debates more often than not,judging…
— Cecelia Ahern
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In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of people who lived…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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