He Set Quotes
48 quotes by 44 authors
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Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken…
— David Rockefeller
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I hate America. I hate this country. It’s just big ideas, and stories, and people dying, and people like you. The white cracker who wrote…
— Tony Kushner
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The white cracker who wrote the National Anthem knew what he was doing. He set the word "free" to a note so high nobody could…
— Tony Kushner
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Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of created things. Look above you! Look…
— Saint Augustine
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As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he put on paper…
— John Steinbeck
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According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of…
— Rafael Sabatini
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Here lies a gentleman bold Who was so very brave He went to lengths untold, And on the brink of the grave Death had on…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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He set the suitcases in the back then tossed her the keys. "You drive." She repressed a smile as she climbed behind the wheel. "With…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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That's right. Who am I thinking of? Oh, I know. It's Cinna who likes you. But that's mainly because you didn't try to run when…
— Suzanne Collins
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The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that…
— Georges Bataille
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He set fire to some potatoes, then cooked some undelivered post in the embers." - Dad "Did he now? What a strange fellow. I would…
— Jasper Fforde
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Don't cry." "How can I not?" I asked him. "You just said you loved me." "Well, why else did you think all of this was…
— Meg Cabot
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Perriwickturned to Penelope as he set the tray down on a table. "If I might be so bold, my lady-" "Perriwick!" Blake roared. "If I…
— Julia Quinn
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Houdini, the magician who debunked magic, could not bear to see the great rationalist [Arthur Conan] Doyle enchanted by ghosts and frauds. And so he…
— John Hodgman
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He looked at the pain and he set himself apart from it. He saw it, examined it, identified it, corralled it. He isolated it. He…
— Lee Child
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I want to give you something.†He slid the ring off his finger. “Up until this week, I’ve never wanted anything more in my life…
— Scott Speer
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I notice how it takes a lazy man, a man that hates moving, to get set on moving once he does get started off, the…
— William Faulkner
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My gaze flew to him once more,noting the cigarette he set down even as he exhaled a long plume of white."Why are you lying there…
— Jeaniene Frost
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