Further Quotes
1867 quotes by 1508 authors
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And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly…
— Terry Pratchett
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The architect had not stopped to bother about columns and porticos, proportions or interiors, or any limitation upon the epic he sought to materialize; he…
— Lew Wallace
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I cannot go any further without mentioning my favourite biscuit of all time, now sadly, tragically, extinct. The oaty, crumbly, demerara notes of the long-forgotten…
— Nigel Slater
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I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I…
— John Keats
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The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they? -that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,-'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?'…
— Thomas Hardy
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But shortcuts are dangerous; we cannot delude ourselves that our knowledge is further along than it actually is.
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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But there was a time when each of us stood naked before the world, confronting life as a serious problem with which we were intimately…
— T.H. White
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People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further…
— Daisaku Ikeda
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He fumbles at your spirit As players at the keys Before they drop full music on; He stuns you by degrees. Prepares your brittle substance…
— Emily Dickinson
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True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it.
— Ai Yazawa
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He grunted; she recognized it as relief that she wasn't going to nag him further about Tor the Just, who probably wasn't that boring if…
— Robin McKinley
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I believe I am becoming pathetic. I'll go further, I believe that I am in love with a flower-growing, wood-carving quarryman/carpenter/pig farmer. In fact, I…
— Mary Ann Shaffer
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Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.…
— Daniel Dennett
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Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far as…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final…
— Darren Shan
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Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.
— E F Schumacher
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People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this…
— David Mitchell
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In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his…
— Flannery O'Connor
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It seems to me further, that it is very odd that fate should leave so careful a trail, and spend so little time preparing the…
— Robin McKinley
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