Mentioned Quotes
337 quotes by 284 authors
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The god of dirt came up to me many times and said so many wise and delectable things, I lay on the grass listening to…
— Mary Oliver
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The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of this world'd luxuries, king by…
— Mark Twain
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When God's righteousness is mentioned in the gospel, it is God's action of declaring righteous the unrighteous sinner who has faith in Jesus Christ. The…
— Martin Luther
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I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is…
— Mark Twain
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...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.
— Richard Yates
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They say that instead of cursing the darkness, one should light a candle. Nothing is mentioned, though, about cursing a lack of candles.
— George Carlin
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I don’t think it would have all got me quite so down if just once in a while—just once in a while—there was at least…
— J D Salinger
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The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous…
— Henry A. Wallace
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We need a moral philosophy which can speak significantly of Freud and Marx and out of which aesthetic and political views can be generated. We…
— Iris Murdoch
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Have I mentioned that I expect death around every turn, that every blue sky has a safe sailing out of it, that every bus runs…
— Rick Moody
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Coop kissed me deeply, drawing my breath from me in a long, sweet ribbon. "Perhaps I haven't mentioned it, but I'm an expert when it…
— Jodi Picoult
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I don't hold with shamans, witch doctors, or psychiatrists. Shakespeare, Tolstoy, or even Dickens, understood more about the human condition than ever occurred to any…
— Mordecai Richler
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In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than…
— Lisa Kleypas
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The woman frowned. "I probably should have mentioned that annoying habit of letting people come to the wrong conclusions and not correcting them? He got…
— Ilona Andrews
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If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, "He…
— Epictetus
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I toyed briefly with an image someone once mentioned to me, of a village in the shadow of a twin-peaked mountain. In the morning the…
— Neil Gaiman
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They were not mentioned in the Declaration of Independence, they were absent in the Constitution and they were invisible in the new political democracy. They…
— Howard Zinn
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Do you think you could put that boot back on?" he added mildly. "The window can only let in a limited ammount of fresh air…
— John Flanagan
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How long have you been here? (Jericho) Don’t know. Again, tried to count once, got depressed so I stopped. I find it easier to just…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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We stopped to browse in the cases, and now that William - with his new glasses on his nose - could linger and read the…
— Umberto Eco
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