Finals Quotes
1426 Finals quotes by 1102 unique authors
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If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age…
— George Eliot
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It is easy to forget now, how effervescent and free we all felt that summer. Everything fades: the shimmer of gold over White Cove; the…
— Anna Godbersen
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She was gone and the coldness of it was her final gift.
— Cormac McCarthy
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Sometimes I think that if I had to choose between an ear of corn or making love to a woman, I'd choose the corn. Not…
— Sara Gruen
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When the final result is expected to be a compromise, it is often prudent to start from an extreme position.
— John Maynard Keynes
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Blue to get ready Green to go Yellow to guide you through the snow Orange to warn you that over you’ll go Then red will…
— Angie Sage
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Il bel far niente means 'the beauty of doing nothing'... [it] has always been a cherished Italian ideal. The beauty of doing nothing is the…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music…
— Haruki Murakami
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Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her.
— Nalini Singh
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Those final weeks, spanning end of summer and the beginning of another autumn, are blurred in memory, perhaps because our understanding of each other had…
— Truman Capote
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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Beppu (n.) The triumphant slamming shut of a book after reading the final page.
— Douglas Adams
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The final weapon is the brain, all else is supplemental.
— John Steinbeck
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My final word: don't follow your dreams . . . chase them. With a stick, or a shovel, or whatever you have handy. Get that…
— Maureen Johnson
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In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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Instead, he would make death his final project, the center point of his days. Since everyone was going to die, he could be of great…
— Mitch Albom
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Why was man created before woman? Because you always need a rough draft before the final copy.” – Chloe Traeger
— Jill Shalvis
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It does seem simple, doesn't it?' she said, with a final bitter attempt at flippancy, 'when you want to kill a chicken...you take hold of…
— Baroness Orczy
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Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I reach out and grab her wrist. It feels impossibly tiny in my hand, like this one time I found a baby bird near goose…
— Lauren Oliver
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I don't know whether you can look at your past and find, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will…
— Jodi Picoult
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Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just…
— Ismail Kadaré
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Imperialism: The final stage of Capitalism.
— Vladimir Lenin
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And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation. Everything…
— John Green
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I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort…
— Osamu Dazai
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