Fret Quotes
105 Fret quotes by 90 unique authors
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We fret about words, we writers. Words mean. Words point. They are arrows. Arrows stuck in the rough hide of reality. And the more portentous,…
— Susan Sontag
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Who are these human beings anyway? They walk around, strut, fret, as if they owned the planet, or the goddamned universe. I mean, who do…
— Frederick Lenz
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I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.
— Jerzy Kosinski
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You must not begin to fret about the successes of cheap people. After all, what have they to do with you?
— Willa Cather
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He who accepts his poverty unhurt I'd say is rich although he lacked a shirt. But truly poor are they who whine and fret and…
— Geoffrey Chaucer
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Do not fret under such assistance as is needful; therein lies one great grace of poverty. It were overambitious to aim at being poor without…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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Intelligent people, as some say, in their openness, are indeed slow to criticize, but conversely, in their openness to the concerns of others, the genuine…
— Criss Jami
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Although practice swings Can be helpful things, Twere better, indeed, not take any Than to fiddle and fret And before playing get Exhausted from taking…
— Richard Armour
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A great lie is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and make a frightful bother, but it cannot hurt…
— George Crabbe
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Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
— George Bernard Shaw
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So I did that for a long time in my career, and I waited for parts to play myself just physically down a little bit.…
— Charlize Theron
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What the semicolon's anxious supporters fret about is the tendency of contemporary writers to use a dash instead of a semicolon and thus precipitate the…
— Lynne Truss
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When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. [Fred. Free.]
— Terry Pratchett
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The Mississippi River towns are comely, clean, well built, and pleasing to the eye, and cheering to the spirit. The Mississippi Valley is as reposeful…
— Mark Twain
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I like these boots," I told Vayl. "Do you think they'd sell them to me cheap? I keep ruining mine." "Since when do you fret…
— Jennifer Rardin
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There is no conclusive evidence of life after death, but there is no evidence of any sort against it. Soon enough you will know, so…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.
— Lewis Carroll
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Don't fret. We'll just have to find something else you're good at besides killing people.
— Clare B. Dunkle
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Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian…
— Jeaniene Frost
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He hath never failed thee yet. Never will His love forget. O fret not thyself nor let Thy heart be troubled, Neither let it be…
— Amy Carmichael
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We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.
— Christopher Hitchens
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Come, hearken then, ere voice of dread, with bitter tiding laden, shall summon to unwelcome bed a melancholy maiden! We are but older children, dear,…
— Lewis Carroll
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The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.
— Patrick Rothfuss
Who Wrote These Fret Quotes
90 authors contributed a total of 105 Fret Quotes, led by these top contributors: