Filling Quotes
399 quotes by 334 authors
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All the natural movements of the soul are controlled by laws analogous to those of physical gravity. Grace is the only exception. Grace fills empty…
— Simone Weil
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Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.…
— Daniel Dennett
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I am running through a snowfall which is her thighs, he dramatized in purple. Her thighs are filling up the street. Wide as a snowfall,…
— Leonard Cohen
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Would I be as strong as that once I did that thing Christophe was talking about? Blooming? Would I smell like a bakery item? Or…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to…
— Haruki Murakami
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Ash, ash —- You poke and stir. Flesh, bone, there is nothing there—— A cake of soap, A wedding ring, A gold filling. Herr God,…
— Sylvia Plath
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Dude, the place is filling up," I say. "It feels like we're living in the bottom half of an hourglass." Like somehow we're running out…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which…
— Ray Bradbury
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Let the glossy spreads have their heart-stopping, head-turning kind of beauty. Give me the heart-filling beauty instead. Jolie laide, that's what I would choose. Flawed,…
— Justina Chen
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For her everything was red, orange, gold-red from the sun on the closed eyes, and it all was that color, all of it, the filling,…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
— Sarah Dessen
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So Mo began filling the silence with words. He lured them out of the pages as if they had only been waiting for his voice,…
— Cornelia Funke
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If men will permit themselves to think, as rational beings ought to think, nothing can appear more ridiculous and absurd, exclusive of all moral reflections,…
— Thomas Paine
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Deep, bone-melting pleasure surged through Kira’s subconscious as he thrust forward again, almost causing her to shout at the crash of rapture filling her. “That…
— Jeaniene Frost
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storming, enjoying, planning, loving, cautioning, Backing and filling, appearing and disappearing, I tread day and night such roads.
— Walt Whitman
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His eyes are peculiar. There is nothing in them, like an eclair without the cream filling. It's wrong, lack of cream.
— Gail Carriger
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She lifted her head. "It's easier," she said, slowly, "to be angry on someone else's behalf than on my own. And yet I find I…
— Emma Bull
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One of the the loveliest lines I have ever read comes from Brother Roger, the Prior of the Protestant monks of Taize, France: 'Assured of…
— Brennan Manning
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In Egypt, I loved the perfume of the lotus. A flower would bloom in the pool at dawn, filling the entire garden with a blue…
— Anita Diament
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I decided that not talking is like a litmus test for a real friend. You can just sit there and be. Not always be filling…
— Catherine Ryan Hyde
Who Wrote These Filling Quotes
334 authors contributed a total of 399 Filling Quotes, led by these top contributors: