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1178 Larger quotes by 949 unique authors
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Scientists say every action initiates an equal and opposite reaction. I say that's just the start. I say every action initiates a most unequal and…
— Ellen Hopkins
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In those days, we imagined ourselves as being kept in some kind of holding pen, waiting to be released into our lives. And when the…
— Julian Barnes
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I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is…
— Brené Brown
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...you could not measure love on a scale of degrees, and now she understood that it was the same with pain. Pain might escalate upward…
— Kristin Cashore
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How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms…
— Louise Erdrich
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It is this idea 'decency' should be attached to wealth -and 'indecency'' to poverty - that forms the core of one strand of skeptical complaint…
— Alain de Botton
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But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharing—of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes one’s soul a reflection…
— R A Salvatore
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If the ego is not regularly and repeatedly dissolved in the unbounded hyperspace of the Transcendent Other, there will always be slow drift away from…
— Terence McKenna
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They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.
— Brandon Mull
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The ideas of Freud were popularized by people who only imperfectly understood them, who were incapable of the great effort required to grasp them in…
— Alfred North Whitehead
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Actually, you said Love, for you, is larger than the usual romantic love. It’s like a religion. It’s terrifying. No one will ever want to…
— Richard Siken
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Larger than life itself, and I can’t even believe this striking creature was once a little bit mine.
— Katy Evans
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Paradox is an overrated threat. There is...a quality similar to inertia at work. Once an event has occurred, there is an extremely strong tendency for…
— Jim Butcher
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The larger the group, the more toxic, the more of your beauty as an individual you have to surrender for the sake of group thought.…
— George Carlin
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The world is larger and more beautiful than my little struggle.
— Ravi Zacharias
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He walked down the corridor, lined with his soldiers, who looked at him with love, with awe, with trust. Except Bean, who looked at him…
— Orson Scott Card
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We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer,…
— Louis L'Amour
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Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Only—if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesn’t it?…
— Donna Tartt
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Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
— John Dryden
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The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job…
— C.S. Lewis
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We have technology, finally, that for the first time in human history allows people to really maintain rich connections with much larger numbers of people.
— Pierre Omidyar
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The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people…
— Pearl S. Buck
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
— Ralph Washington Sockman
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The time has come to lower our voices, to cease imposing our mechanistic patterns on the biological processes of the earth, to resist the impulse…
— Thomas Berry
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