Intact Quotes

209 Intact quotes by 185 unique authors

With each piece I've completed I have worked to make it intact, and each of them has been an equal high. It's like children. A… — Twyla Tharp
In the voyeurism of Reality TV, the viewer's passivity is kept intact, pampered and massaged and force-fed Chicken McNuggets of carefully edited snippets that permit… — James Wolcott
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West… — Naomi Wolf
To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure… — C.S. Lewis
In the days that follow, he begins to remember things about Moushumi, images that come to him without warning while he is sitting at his… — Jhumpa Lahiri
Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling," she used to say. "Why would I want to be in the world… — Sherman Alexie
To seek freedom is the only driving force I know. Freedom to fly off into that infinity out there. Freedom to dissolve; to lift off;… — Carlos Castaneda
You take a really sleepy man, Esmé, and he always stands a chance of again becoming a man with all his fac—with all his f-a-c-u-l-t-i-e-s… — J D Salinger
For a hundred years or more the world, our world, has been dying. And not one man, in these last hundred years or so, has… — Henry Miller
Cultural legacies are powerful forces. They have deep roots and long lives. They persist, generation after generation, virtually intact, even as the economic and social… — Malcolm Gladwell
Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the… — Jodi Picoult
Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it… — Judith Butler
if you were older you might agree with me. you might say that real love steals nothing. you might say that real love leaves a… — Gabrielle Zevin
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree… — Aberjhani
Asmodeus! You don’t see her, do you hear me? (Jericho) Completely blind, Minor Master. Hearing is intact. Is there anyone here besides the two of… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Mr. Stock came out of the competition tent carrying his zeppelin marrow on one shoulder and demanding to know what was going on. When he… — Diana Wynne Jones
My love affair with (him) had a wonderful element of romance to it, which I will always cherish. But it was not an infatuation, and… — Elizabeth Gilbert
Are you implying that shreds of my reputation remain intact?" Will demanded with mock horror. "Clearly I have been doing something wrong. Or not something… — Cassandra Clare
I envied these women I saw before me, their beauty still intact. Life has its revenge of life. Untimely death is the secret of eternal… — Shan Sa
I couldn't fault her for believing, because I had to imagine i was nice to have that illusion still intact. — David Levithan
Is it really sick for me to be happy right now?" I asked. My voice broke twice. He didn't push me away. He pulled me… — Stephenie Meyer
I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by Wednesday no part… — Judith Viorst
She stared at herself in the mirror. Her eyes were dark, almost black, filled with pain. She'd let someone do that to her. She'd known… — Christine Feehan
Hearing him talk about his mother, about his intact family, makes my chest hurt for a second, like someone pierced it with a needle. — Veronica Roth
We tend to think of memories as monuments we once forged and may find intact beneath the weedy growth of years. But, in a real… — Diane Ackerman

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