Highly Quotes
1183 quotes by 963 authors
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Even if they end up together, which I highly doubt, given the strength of that particular bond-...-but even if Schuyler still loves him, or thinks…
— Melissa de la Cruz
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The great art of giving consists in this the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the…
— Baltasar Gracian
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Most goat-related military activity is still highly classified.
— Jon Ronson
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Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This…
— Gao Xingjian
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Religious moderation is the direct result of taking scripture less and less seriously. So why not take it less seriously still? Why not admit the…
— Sam Harris
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Man's wobbly little mind isn't equipped for hauling around the great unknowns. Very few people realize, there's no point chasing after answers to life's important…
— Marisha Pessl
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The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm…
— C.S. Lewis
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[Kafka] transformed the profoundly antipoetic material of a highly bureaucratized society into the great poetry of the novel; he transformed a very ordinary story of…
— Milan Kundera
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A cloak of invisibility? This is a highly sensitive piece of field equipment. What does he think? Some warlock pulled it out of his armpit?
— Eoin Colfer
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In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some highly paid charlatans…
— Marcus Luttrell
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There's a scientific hypothesis that every person's name is a primary suggestive command that contains the entire script of their life in highly concentrated form.…
— Victor Pelevin
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Basketball is an intricate, high-speed game filled with split-second, spontaneous decisions. But that spontaneity is possible only when everyone first engages in hours of highly…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.
— Tom Holt
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Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves.…
— Anne Lamott
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that's exactly the good thing about the Injun life--you don't have to stop and think about whether or not you're 'happy'--which in my opinionis a…
— Jim Fergus
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Walking over to Iggy, he poked him with his shoe. "Does anysing on you vork properly?" Iggy rubbed his forehead with one hand. "Well, I…
— James Patterson
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For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet…
— George Eliot
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I should emphasize this, to keep well-meaning but misguided multiculturalists at bay: the theoretical entities in which these tribal people frankly believe — the gods…
— Daniel Dennett
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Highly fed and lowly taught.
— William Shakespeare
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If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair?
— Karen Marie Moning
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