Literally Quotes

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I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail.… — Jacques Lacan
You've done what?" "I know," he said. "You're impressed. You send me out for bread and I come back with a boy. Well, not literally.… — Derek Landy
To be apathetic is literally to be without passion. — Erwin McManus
The best way to measure the loss of intellectual sophistication - this "nerdification," to put it bluntly - is in the growing disappearance of sarcasm,… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Americans take a product that literally grows on trees and turn it into a valuable commodity. Without them, cocaine and marijuana would be like… — Don Winslow
I think writing about the time in Hermioneâ€™s life that I write about â€“ growing from childhood into womanhood, literally, I think itï»¿ brought back… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I have something for you," he said. He dug into his pocket and brought out something, which he pressed into her hand. It was a… — Cassandra Clare
Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but… — Henri Nouwen
Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too muchâ€”too… — James Patterson
Encourage literally came from "in courage." The courage is put "into" you from outside. Our character and abilities grow through internalizing from others what we… — Henry Cloud
What humans want most of all, is to be right. Even if we're being right about our own doom. If we believe there are monsters… — David Wong
We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat. — Yann Martel
What does seem to me poisonous, what breeds a type of patriotism that is pernicious if it lasts but not likely to last long in… — C.S. Lewis
Human thought can literally transform the physical world .. we are the masters of our own universe — Dan Brown
Whatever it is you seek, you have to put in the time, the practice, the effort. You must give up a lot to get it.… — Michael Crichton
You can literally force yourself to be courteous, happy and enthusiastic with every person you meet. After you have forced yourself to be so for… — Zig Ziglar
I've read something that Bill Gates said about six months ago. He said, â€˜I worked really, really hard in my 20s.â€™ And I know what… — Steve Jobs
You can't blame me. I mean that literally. You're incapable of blaming me. You're human. Being human is choosing freedom over imprisonment, autonomy over dependency,… — Glen Duncan
I quickly found that the American church is a difficult place to fit in if you want to live out New Testament Christianity. The goals… — Francis Chan
It was true: hope could be unkind. You opened yourself up to the worst of wounds because you wanted to believe that something good could… — Michelle Sagara

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