Frequent Quotes
288 quotes by 237 authors
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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental…
— C.S. Lewis
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It's easy to like someone from a distance. But when she stopped being this amazing unattainable thing or whatever, and started being, like, just a…
— John Green
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The society of my relatives can only be enjoyed with frequent intervals.
— Georgette Heyer
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At that moment I didn't particularly care if a band of raging marauders tried to do her in,but if there were frequent attacks on her…
— Amanda Hocking
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An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in…
— Knut Hamsun
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One source of frustration in the workplace is the frequent mismatch between what people must do and what people can do. When what they must…
— Daniel H. Pink
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She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too…
— Jane Austen
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It was an odd friendship, but the oddnesses of friendships are a frequent guarantee of their lasting texture.
— Ford Madox Ford
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius.
— Elbert Hubbard
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I was lying, but I wanted to rouse him. I have an inborn urge to contradict; my whole life has been a mere chain of…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth. Authoritarian institutions and marketers have…
— Daniel Kahneman
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Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent…
— Richard John Neuhaus
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Yes the truth is that men's ambition and their desire to make money are among the most frequent causes of deliberate acts of injustice.
— Aristotle
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I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when…
— Ben Goldacre
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We ought to be as earnest and frequent in our prayers of thanksgiving when the cupboard is full as we would be in our prayers…
— Jerry Bridges
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The way Leo figured it, he spent more time crashing than he did flying. If there was a rewards card for frequent crashers, he'd be,…
— Rick Riordan
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The continuance and frequent fits of anger produce in the soul a propensity to be angry; which oftentimes ends in choler, bitterness, and moronity, when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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To live in the world of creation-to get into it and stay in it-to frequent it and haunt it...to think intently and fruitfully, to woo…
— Henry James
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Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent, are yet less…
— Samuel Johnson
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Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve…
— Dalai Lama
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