Managed Quotes
691 quotes by 587 authors
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Who I am, and what I am capable of doing has always managed to surprise me.
— Jodi Picoult
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He managed to convey indifference, contempt, and boredom in the one word.
— Charlaine Harris
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Did you like question ten, Moony?" asked Sirius as they emerged into the entrance hall. "Loved it," said Lupin briskly. "Give five signs that identify…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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She was truly a beautiful girl. I could feel a small polished stone sinking through the darkest waters of my heart. All those deep convoluted…
— Haruki Murakami
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Surely you don’t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don’t really suppose, do you, that all your…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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When you chose independence over relationship, you became a danger to one another. Others became objects to be manipulated or managed for your own happiness.…
— William P. Young
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That kind of tenderness couldn't be permitted to last. You only got a taste, enough to know what perfection meant, and then you paid for…
— Janet Fitch
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of all the weapons of destruction that man could invent, the most terrible-and the most powerful-was the word. Daggers and spears left traces of blood;…
— Paulo Coelho
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I do not feel inhibited or bound by what I am. That does not mean that I have never had bad scenes relating to being…
— Lucille Clifton
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Life's managed, not cured.
— Phil McGraw
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Afterward, I curl around her. We lie in silence until darkness falls, and then, haltingly, she begins to talk...She speaks without need or even room…
— Sara Gruen
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I do feel that I’ve managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I’m inside it, to some…
— Haruki Murakami
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Really, the combination of the scabs and the ointment looks hideous. I can't help enjoying his distress. "Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in…
— Suzanne Collins
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It turns out Dimitri had a friend, who had a friend, and despite the best security in the Moroi world, we managed to get into…
— Richelle Mead
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There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff,…
— Neil Gaiman
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I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man and I was…
— Neil Gaiman
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A managed democracy is a wonderful thing... for the managers... and its greatest strength is a 'free press' when 'free' is defined as 'responsible' and…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Death: Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know, that in a universe so full of wonders, they have managed to invent boredom.
— Terry Pratchett
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You still haven't managed to heal the scars left by some of the injustices committed against you in your life and it doesn't do you…
— Paulo Coelho
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It was no mean trick doing the wiring with those mittens on. But I managed it and crawled out, batting spiders into the shadows. I…
— Bailey White
Who Wrote These Managed Quotes
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