Finally Quotes
3507 quotes by 2425 authors
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It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your…
— Sarah Dessen
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It's like chasing a beautiful woman for 80 years. Finally, she relents and you say, 'I'm terribly sorry. I'm tired.' [After winning his first Oscar…
— Paul Newman
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It was my friend Frank, a writer in San Francisco, who finally set me straight. When asked about my new look he put down his…
— David Sedaris
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I think about how truly interesting and odd it is that when a woman marries, traditionally she loses her name, becoming absorbed by the husband's…
— A.M. Homes
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A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to…
— Douglas Adams
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... in the long run, there can be no joy for anybody until there is joy finally for us all
— Frederick Buechner
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I took my coffee into the dining room and settled down with the morning paper. A woman in New York had had twins in a…
— Shirley Jackson
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When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and…
— Isaac Asimov
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And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling into place.
— Sarah Dessen
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Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.
— Unknown Author
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What the mind cannot accept, the heart can finally never adore.
— John Shelby Spong
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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades…
— Richard Dawkins
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I finally understood what true love meant...love meant that you care for another person's happiness more than your own, no matter how painful the choices…
— Nicholas Sparks
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There was an awful suspicion in my mind that I'd finally gone over the hump, and the worst thing about it was that I didn't…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful. I weep because,…
— Paulo Coelho
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There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again,…
— Marilynne Robinson
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Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.
— Anne Lamott
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I hadn't gotten old enough yet to realize that living sends a person not into the future but back into the past, to childhood and…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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