Highly Quotes

1183 Highly quotes by 963 unique authors

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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Highly fed and lowly taught. — William Shakespeare
If I entered a tropical beach, would I end up in Nazi Germany with my highly inconvenient black hair? — Karen Marie Moning
So I'm an ace?' Will grinned. 'I'm flattered Halt, flattered. I had no idea you regarded me so highly.' Halt gave him a long-suffering look.… — John Flanagan
Indeed, religion allows people to imagine that their concerns are moral when they are highly immoral - that is, when pressing these concerns inflicts unnecessary… — Sam Harris
I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I… — Sherman Alexie
The story of terrorism is written by the state and it is therefore highly instructive… compared with terrorism, everything else must be acceptable, or in… — Guy Debord
We’ve always assumed The Aegis is all-knowing highly trained and organized but it’s nothing but a cult, isn’t it ? The weak and uneducated being… — Larissa Ione
She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a… — Leo Tolstoy
Good God, Dev. Have you completely lost your mind? Don’t tease the psychotic tiger. He’s getting all angry and frothing at the mouth. Someone’s going… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Yeah. And Savitar predates him. He has presided over this council since the very beginning, and notice, Savitar looks about thirty. We don’t know what… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university… — Ambeth R. Ocampo
Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table. — Gail Carriger

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