Labored Quotes
65 quotes by 60 authors
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I labored hard to avoid trouble and bloodshed.
— Chief Joseph
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Crazy people made him crazy. It was as if he personally resented them giving into madness - in part, because he so frequently labored to…
— John Irving
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Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not…
— John Edward Williams
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Every poem is an infant labored into birth and I am drenched with sweating effort, tired from the pain and hurt of being a man,…
— Jimmy Santiago Baca
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Man is an onion made up of a hundred integuments, a texture made up of many threads. The ancient Asiatics knew this well enough, and…
— Hermann Hesse
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so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail dresses she no…
— John Irving
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I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts…
— Edgar Allan Poe
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It is good to LOOK to the past to gain appreciation for the present and perspective for the FUTURE. It is good to look upon…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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We labored under the pretense that nothing had changed when everything had, and I understood him, but i no longer knew him.
— Megan Hart
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A stilted heron labored up into the air and pounded down the river.
— John Steinbeck
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Alexia had spent long hours wondering over that mustache. Werewolves did not grow hair, as they did not age. Where had it come from? Had…
— Gail Carriger
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Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has…
— Adrienne Rich
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He never labored so hard to learn a language as he did to hold his tongue, and it affected him for life. The habit of…
— Henry Adams
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After a long, labored sigh, I said, “She was really happy when I got there. I’m pretty sure she was suicidal when I left.†“You…
— Darynda Jones
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We must love them both, those whose opinions we share and those whose opinions we reject, for both have labored in the search for truth,…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the…
— Sylvia Plath
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The museums of medieval Europe, from Holland to Tuscany, are crammed with instruments and devices upon which the holy men labored devoutly, in order to…
— Christopher Hitchens
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I looked more widely around me, I studied the lives of the masses of humanity, and I saw that, not two or three, or ten,…
— Leo Tolstoy
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May we all, as a nation of believers, fight for the achievement of America; may we make sacrifices worthy of those proud men and women…
— Cory Booker
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First, the baby loves mother's milk; second, he learns of his mother and father; third, his brothers, sisters and aunts; fourth, the love of play…
— Sri Guru Granth Sahib
Who Wrote These Labored Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 65 Labored Quotes, led by these top contributors: