Literally Quotes
1298 quotes by 1073 authors
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To Jack, there was nothing more powerful than a promise made over a handshake. He would have died ー literally chosen death ー before breaking…
— Lisa Kleypas
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In many places it is literally not safe physically for youngsters to go to school. And in many schools, and its becoming almost generally true,…
— Boyd K. Packer
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...since I was a little boy, she had always wanted me to go. She was always sending me off on a bus someplace, to elementary…
— James McBride
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I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
— Bill Maher
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Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured…
— Sheri L. Dew
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Terry was beside himself. Not literally. This story would be that much more painful if there were two Terrys, able to stand next to each…
— Obert Skye
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The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that…
— Roberto Bolano
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Truth is literally that which is without secrecy, what discloses itself without a veil.
— R. D. Laing
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It is possible to cause seemingly biochemical changes through human emotional involvement. You literally have changed his chemistry by being his friend.
— Steve Lopez
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We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life.…
— William James
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Every universe, our own included, begins in conversation. Every golem in the history of the world, from Rabbi Hanina's delectable goat to the river-clay Frankenstein…
— Michael Chabon
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It is strange how few people make more than a casual cult of enjoying Nature. And yet the earth is actually and literally the mother…
— John Cowper Powys
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You will attract everything that you require. If it’s money you need you will attract it. If it’s people you need you’ll attract it. You’ve…
— Rhonda Byrne
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When you love someone, truly love them, you lay your heart open to them. You give them a part of yourself that you give to…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It is the imagination that argues for the Divine Spark within human beings. It is literally a decent of the World's Soul into all of…
— Terence McKenna
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The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.
— Terence McKenna
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My body becomes a raft and there's this part of me that wants just literally to go with the flow. To close my eyes and…
— Melina Marchetta
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Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?' The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly. Oh, my dear,…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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The photograph is literally an emanation of the referent. From a real body, which was there, proceed radiations which ultimately touch me, who am here;…
— Roland Barthes
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It is very useful, when one is young, to learn the difference between "literally" and "figuratively." If something happens literally, it actually happens; if something…
— Daniel Handler
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