Key Quotes

3000 Key quotes by 2138 unique authors

We're always contradicting ourselves. We want people to tell us apart.... ...yet we don't want them to be able to. We want people to get… — Bisco Hatori
All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it. — Jonathan Kellerman
If you think anyone is sane you just don’t know enough about them. The key — and this is very relevant in our case —… — Christopher Moore
Why did the old Persians hold the sea holy? Why did the Greeks give it a separate deity, and own brother Jove? Surely all this… — Herman Melville
The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political… — Noam Chomsky
When the right moment appears, the key is to not let it pass. — Jay Asher
Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as… — Philip Yancey
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it… — Dodie Smith
I saw what a mess a lot of people could make of their lives when they're smitten. Some of them go temporarily insane. They find… — Mae West
The key to lying skillfully is never lie to yourself. — Tammara Webber
The thing everyone should realize is that the key to happiness is being happy for yourself and yourself. — Ellen DeGeneres
My mother used to talk about passages and, once in a while, about ordeals. We all have them; we are all shaped by them. She… — Chris Bohjalian
Derek? Derek!-Chole Chole! what are you doing out here? i said we will check it out later. key word WE-Derek oh, yeah I decided to… — Kelley Armstrong
I've learned that the universe doesn't care what our motives are, only our actions. So we should do things that will bring about good, even… — Wendy Mass
That’s how Ptolemy imagined the disposition of his memories, his thoughts: they were still his, still in the range of his thinking, but they were,… — Walter Mosley
The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I… — Jeff Lindsay
At such times I felt something was drawing me away, and I kept fancying that if I walked straight on, far, far away and reached… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
They think I’m simpleminded because I seem to be happy. Why shouldn’t I be happy? I have everything I ever wanted and more. Maybe I… — Dolly Parton
Love for yourself is the key to loving other. Love begins with you — Miguel Angel Ruiz
Each life has a different purpose, and some people can find their purpose more easily than others. The key, the most important thing you can… — Dan Wells
I can do this, I tell myself firmly. I can be attracted to him. It's just a matter of self control and possibly also getting… — Sophie Kinsella
A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens
She turned the key, never taking her eyes from him, — Nicholas Sparks
The key insight of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is misleadingly simple: if an exchange between two parties is voluntary, it will not take place… — Milton Friedman
Abby must have been the one who found the safe house, because Townsend didn't like it. "The building across the street is under construction," he… — Ally Carter

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