Literally Quotes
1298 quotes by 1073 authors
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The test of your worldview is not how you act in the good times. The test of your worldview is how you act at the…
— Rick Warren
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It's quite literally true that we are star dust, in the highest exalted way one can use that phrase. ...I bask in the majesty of…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And…
— Joanna Macy
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The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm.
— Roy Baumeister
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Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter movement ... who…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from…
— Mario Cuomo
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Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally a vision-in the…
— Unknown Author
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Art, unlike the trades in the artistic capacity of fashion and food, can literally be anything. It can be the negation of itself and conceptually…
— Richard Phillips
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Every kid has a toy that they believe is their best friend, that they believe communicates with them, and they imagine it being alive, their…
— Henry Selick
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Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act…
— John Francis Daley
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On the morning of September 11th, I was literally about 18 blocks from the World Trade Center. I witnessed in person what a lot of…
— Steve Tisch
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There was a band in Australia named Midnight Oil, and they were a very, very political, and they literally hit you over the head with…
— Meat Loaf
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Literally, I just love food and I like going to dinner with big groups of people so you can try everything.
— Sasha Grey
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When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut…
— Douglas Conant
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Our social life is literally primal, in the sense that chimpanzees and gorillas, our closest relatives among the primates, are also social.
— Clay Shirky
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With acting, you see some of the kids are literally just off the street, untrained, and they are great. And others are off the street,…
— Patton Oswalt
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Ultimately when I gave up the use of motorized vehicles, I walked everywhere, from town to town, across states and two continents. When I stopped…
— John Francis
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We actually have 10 times as many cells of microbes on us as we have human cells... We are literally a teeming ecosystem of microorganisms.
— Unknown Author
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When I designed my loft, I literally framed the World Trade Center as a picture postcard I could see from my bed. I no longer…
— Bernard Tschumi
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I literally came out of high school thinking that I was going to do something in the sports world because I grew up with a…
— Unknown Author
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