Finally Quotes
3507 quotes by 2425 authors
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In the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. They wanted a comfortable life, and they lost it all – security, comfort, and freedom. When…
— Edward Gibbon
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there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at…
— Charles Bukowski
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Finally, you had to measure yourself by other people - there really was nothing else. every now and then, quite unintentionally, someone taught you something…
— Ian Mcewan
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We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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Then the trembling starts to get worse. This must be how they begin, he thinks. Freak-outs. Breakdowns. Crack-ups. Eventually shut-ins and finally cross-offs. But first…
— Ken Kesey
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Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
— Dr. Seuss
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I want a relationship I can finally sink my teeth into.
— Ellen Schreiber
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I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.
— Marilynne Robinson
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I finally understood that no matter what I did, or who I found, I-he-none of us-would ever be able to win over the memories she…
— Nicole Krauss
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Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from…
— Bruce Lee
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The thing about mountains is that you have to keep on climbing them, and that it's always hard, but there's a view from top every…
— Nancy Garden
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...the only way to get a thing done is to start to do it, then keep on doing it, and finally you'll finish it,....
— Langston Hughes
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The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're…
— Unknown Author
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If our friendship depends on things like space and time, then when we finally overcome space and time, we've destroyed our own brotherhood! But overcome…
— Richard Bach
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Well?" Ron said finally, looking up at Harry. "How was it?" Harry considered it for a moment. "Wet," he said truthfully. Ron made a noise…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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They took a baseball bat and whacked open his head. Mummy Boy fell to the ground; he finally was dead. Inside of his head were…
— Tim Burton
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we left about midnight and walked down the hill in silence. the night was muggy, and all around me i felt the same pressure, a…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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The only time you truly become an adult is when you finally forgive your parents for being just as flawed as everyone else.
— Douglas Kennedy
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