Isn Quotes
897 Isn quotes by 623 unique authors
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My dear fellow, the truth isn’t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about…
— Oscar Wilde
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There isn’t a nightclub in the world that you can sit in for a long time unless you can at least buy some liquor and…
— J D Salinger
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And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the…
— Anne Lamott
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Big Brother isn’t watching. He’s singing and dancing. He’s pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother’s busy holding your attention every moment you’re awake.…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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At last, the answer why. The lesson that had been so hard to find, so difficult to learn, came quick and clear and simple. The…
— Richard Bach
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It isn’t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it’s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled.
— Aldous Huxley
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Knowledge isn’t power until it is applied.
— Dale Carnegie
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Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.
— Margaret Atwood
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Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something…
— Sarah Dessen
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Life on a lifeboat isn’t much of a life. It is like an end game in chess, a game with few pieces. The elements couldn’t…
— Yann Martel
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So you see, when war comes to one’s village, one’s doorstep, it isn’t tragic and impersonal any longer. It is just an excuse to vomit…
— Daphne du Maurier
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But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn’t yet, or used to be Human once…
— C.S. Lewis
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Are you her boyfriend?” ... No, I’m her fiancé.” Nate said. We’ve been promised to each other since birth,” Summer added. Our wedding isn’t until…
— Brandon Mull
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That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
— Nick Hornby
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Personally, I believe “Young Adult” to be an arbitrary title that means the book "Can be enjoyed by anyone/Has a main character who’s not quite…
— Shannon Hale
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It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world,…
— Clive Barker
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You and me?” I let out a stunned bark of laughter. “There is no you and me.” “That’s what you think,” Chaz says, tugging on…
— Meg Cabot
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You’re shaking … so am I. It’s because of Jerusalem, isn’t it? One doesn’t go to Jerusalem, one returns to it. That’s one of its…
— Elie Wiesel
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I guess forgiveness, like happiness, isn’t a final destination. You don’t one day get there and get to stay.
— Deb Caletti
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I have my own set of survival techniques. I am patient. I know how to pack light. But my one might travel talent is that…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Fundamentals, fundamentals, fundamentals. You’ve got to get the fundamentals down because otherwise the fancy stuff isn’t going to work.
— Randy Pausch
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Nothing like being with people you’ve known almost your entire life. Having a shared history is something you just can’t create with the new ones.…
— Jane Green
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Isn’t it a bit unnerving that doctors call what they do “practice”?
— George Carlin
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Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s…
— C.S. Lewis
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