He Spent Quotes
60 He Spent quotes by 59 unique authors
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason…
— Francis Collins
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But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble…
— Norton Juster
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He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I was in the air around him. I was in the cold mornings he had now. I was in the quiet time he spent alone.…
— Alice Sebold
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I remembered Nahadoth's lips on my throat and fought to suppress a shudder, only half succeeding. Death as a consequence of lying with a god…
— N.K. Jemisin
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Sometimes he spent hours together in the great libraries of Paris, those catacombs of departed authors, rummaging among their hoards of dusty and obsolete works…
— Washington Irving
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He spent a lot of time flying. He learnt to communicate with birds and discovered that their conversation was fantastically boring. It was all to…
— Douglas Adams
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Everything necessary to understand my grandfather lies between two stories: the story of the tiger’s wife, and the story of the deathless man. These stories…
— Tea Obreht
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All he knew was that they fit somehow, and that he felt as if he spent most of his life traveling a path that led…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of…
— Flannery O'Connor
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One of the commonest things to do with savings is to lend them to some Government. In view of the fact that the bulk of…
— Bertrand Russell
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Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail…
— Barry Lyga
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He froze, and for one moment, we stood locked in time. I could feel the silk of his shirt against my skin and the warmth…
— Richelle Mead
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He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I…
— Jasper Fforde
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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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Nor has he spent his life badly who has passed it in privacy.
— Horace
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We have a president, who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.
— Mitt Romney
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When I first met Mandela, we did not discuss anything of substance; we just felt each other out. He spent a long time expressing his…
— F. W. de Klerk
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The Savior encouraged brotherhood. He was not a long-distance leader. He walked and worked with those whom he led. He was not afraid of close…
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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John Quincy Adams ranks with Jimmy Carter on the roster of ex-presidential redemption. Instead of completing a biography of his father, he let himself be…
— Thomas Mallon
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Then, there was Cary Grant. He spent three hours a week in hospitals teaching nervous people how to eat jello.
— Red Buttons
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But I think the credit has to go to Geddy... he spent a lot of time in the studio with Paul, I think he needed…
— Alex Lifeson
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I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving he can outwit nature and more time tasting…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.
— Simon Callow
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