Managed Quotes
691 quotes by 586 authors
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Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in…
— Kim Harrison
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We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced…
— Paul Bowles
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I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret…
— Jim Butcher
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He looked at the little maiden, and she looked at him; and he felt that he was melting away, but he still managed to keep…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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Life can't be cured, but it can be managed.
— Ned Vizzini
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There was a hysteria in there, certainly, but there was also the exhaustion of someone who had managed, somehow, to believe several dozen impossible things…
— Neil Gaiman
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How promising you are as a Student of the Game is a function of what you can pay attention to without running away. Nets and…
— David Foster Wallace
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[Speaking to a group of wealthy New Yorkers] A million years ago, the cave man, without tools, with small brain, and with nothing but the…
— Jack London
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The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just…
— Dave Eggers
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I wanted to tell people, "My depression is acting up today" as an excuse for not seeing them, but I never managed to pull it…
— Ned Vizzini
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I won’t tell you how I managed to break in, since I don’t want the authorities figuring out, but let’s just say that if you’re…
— Meg Cabot
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She was too much—for Zenith, Ohio. She’d tried at times to make herself smaller, to fit neatly into the ordered lines of expectation. But somehow,…
— Libba Bray
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It’s all right,†she said. “You’re through.†“Jesus,†he finally managed, pushing water off his face. “Jesus Christ and John the Baptist. For that matter,…
— Tessa Dare
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Commander, I always used to consider that you had a definite anti-authoritarian streak in you.†“Sir?†“It seems that you have managed to retain this…
— Terry Pratchett
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I've managed to stay alive out here in the Ruin because I'm a realist. I allow the truth to be the truth, no matter how…
— Jonathan Maberry
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If so, I couldn't imagine how the opposite gender managed to get out of bed in the morning. They might be lovely to look at,…
— Ann Aguirre
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Where I went, no one could follow. Yet someone managed to hold my hand.
— John Banville
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I kept interrupting the movie by asking a lot of questions that Xavier managed to answer with endless patience. "How old do you think Bell…
— Alexandra Adornetto
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I might have been tempted to hit him square in the jaw had he not taken me by the shoulders and pinned me against the…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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It is by all odds the loftiest of cities. It even managed to reach the highest point in the sky at the lowest moment of…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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