Interminable Quotes
40 quotes by 39 authors
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One [television] program was an interminable exploration of the question: can a woman with a low I.Q. be happily married to a man with a…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the…
— Emile M. Cioran
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A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing…
— Jessica Mitford
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All animals go through interminable hard labor to produce what humans shamelessly rob from them at great physical/mental pain to them and to their young.…
— Adela Popescu
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Ye waves That o'er th' interminable ocean wreathe Your crisped smiles.
— Aeschylus
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I do not mean to object to a thorough knowledge of the famous works we read. I object only to the interminable comments and bewildering…
— Helen Keller
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Even when the east excited me most, even when I was keenly aware of its superiority to the broad, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio,…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time…
— John Steinbeck
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She belonged to a different age, but being so entire, so complete, would always stand up on the horizon, stone-white, eminent, like a lighthouse marking…
— Virginia Woolf
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As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and…
— R A Salvatore
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No matter how interminable something feels, there is always, always an ending. Sometimes that's good, and sometimes it's bad; sometimes it's a matter of indifference,…
— Ann Aguirre
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For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage.…
— George Orwell
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Each time my heart is broken it makes me feel more adventurous (and how the same names keep recurring on that interminable list!), but one…
— Frank O'Hara
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Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to…
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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The sea answers all questions, and always in the same way; for when you read in the papers the interminable discussions and the bickering and…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral…
— Garth Stein
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Those seemingly interminable dark walks between houses, long before street-lit safety became an issue, were more adrenalizing than the mountains of candy filling the sack.…
— Lauren Springer
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Your lips, delicate and yielding, yet warm and soggy, brush against mine, temporarily from the beginning and after that with a solidness that sends joys…
— Cazz
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The tension between yes and o, between I can and I cannot, makes us feel that, in so many instances, human life is an interminable…
— Anatole Broyard
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