Frequent Quotes

288 quotes by 237 authors

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion… — Edgar Allan Poe
People in south Manchester overwhelming want to be able to recycle more than they currently can - especially cardboard and plastics - and want more… — Lucy Powell
A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give money to charity. — Jonathan Sacks
Frequent worshippers are also significantly more active citizens. They are more likely to belong to community organizations, especially those concerned with young people, health, arts… — Jonathan Sacks
I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the… — Jose Saramago
I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and… — Robert Smith
I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight. — Zadie Smith
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many… — Stendhal
Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved… — J. Michael Straczynski
Golf appeals to the idiot in us and the child. Just how childlike golf players become is proven by their frequent inability to count past… — John Updike
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with… — Andrew Weil
A spiritual 'spurter' is one who is given to short bursts of spectacular effort followed by frequent and lengthy periods of rest. — David A. Bednar
Happiness consists in frequent repetition of pleasure — Arthur Schopenhauer
...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to… — Virginia Woolf
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished, for guilt and crimes are so frequent in this world… — John Adams
To begin depriving death of its greatest advantage over us, let us adopt a way clean contrary to that common one; let us deprive death… — Michel de Montaigne
Kumiko and I felt something for each other from the beginning. It was not one of those strong, impulsive feelings that can hit two people… — Haruki Murakami
love is thicker than forget more thinner than recall more seldom than a wave is wet more frequent than to fail it is most mad… — E E Cummings
...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays.... — Aldous Huxley

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