Figures Quotes
2652 quotes by 1970 authors
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If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.
— T.D. Jakes
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Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her phone.
— Robin Sloan
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Lizzie Bright Griffin, do you ever wish the world would just go ahead and swallow you whole?" "Sometimes I do," she said, and then smiled.…
— Gary D. Schmidt
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Theodor Geisel (otherwise known as Dr. Seuss) spent his workdays ensconced in his private studio, the walls lined with sketches and drawings, in a bell-tower…
— Susan Cain
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Decide what you want. Believe you can have it. Believe you deserve it and believe it’s possible for you. And then close your eyes and…
— Jack Canfield
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I got to give mom credit for how she handled it.She didn't try to pry and get all the details. All she said was that…
— Jeff Kinney
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If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical…
— Jonathan Haidt
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I figure if there is a God, he or she isn’t paying attention to what we build or if we follow some elaborate rules, but…
— Karen Marie Moning
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School is school-she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.
— David Levithan
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You thought you could figure that out online? Somehow I don't think hellions are much into social networking.
— Rachel Vincent
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This girl has the spark of life. This is my primary filter for new friends (girl- and otherwise) and the highest compliment I can pay.…
— Robin Sloan
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I have no more idea now of who I am than I did before. But at least I know that. And I'm starting to figure…
— David Levithan
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I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time…
— Kami Garcia
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In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold…
— Dan Simmons
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A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to…
— Isaac Newton
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We figure out what death means when we're born, practically, and we live our whole lives in some kind of weird denial about it.
— Lauren DeStefano
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Human beings would split the atom and invent television, nylon, and instant coffee before they could figure out the age of their own planet.
— Bill Bryson
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Because even if they are doing something immoral, I'd be an idiot to start criticizing them for it if I wasn't perfect myself. Smoking is…
— Jim Butcher
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...all people needed was time and then they could figure most things out of themselves.
— Cecelia Ahern
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The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and…
— George Orwell
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