Minute Quotes
2355 Minute quotes by 1707 unique authors
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A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is…
— Wendy Mass
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Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And…
— George Carlin
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What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Haji Ali taught me the most important lesson I've ever learned in my life...We Americans think you have to accomplish everything quickly. We're the country…
— Greg Mortenson
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We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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We fell in love, despite our differences, and once we did, something rare and beautiful was created. For me, love like that has only happened…
— Nicholas Sparks
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The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let…
— Betty Smith
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I don't suffer from my insanity -- I enjoy every minute of it.
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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So this is it," said Arthur, "We are going to die." "Yes," said Ford, "except... no! Wait a minute!" He suddenly lunged across the chamber…
— Douglas Adams
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You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense? Or an assistant…
— Dorothy Parker
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You have a choice. Live or die. Every breath is a choice. Every minute is a choice. Every time you don't throw yourself down the…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as…
— Jon Stewart
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It may be that we exist and cease to exist in alternations, like the minute dots in some forms of toned printing or the succession…
— H.G. Wells
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The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way…
— John Irving
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to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like…
— Charles Bukowski
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There is always time for another last minute
— Terry Pratchett
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Everything, in the end, comes down to timing. One second, one minute, one hour could make all the difference.
— Sarah Dessen
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The most exquisite paradox… as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't…
— Ram Dass
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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried…
— Meg Wolitzer
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What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a minute...what're you doing…
— Meg Cabot
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Her life with others no longer interests him. He wants only her stalking beauty, her theatre of expressions. He wants the minute secret reflection between…
— Michael Ondaatje
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He was silent for thirty seconds, maybe a minute. I uncrossed my legs under the table and wondered if this was the right moment to…
— Haruki Murakami
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Directors are always changing things at the last minute. Actors will do a scene, and the director will say, ‘Okay, that was perfect, but this…
— Dave Barry
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Again, somehow, one saw life, a pure bead. I lifted the pencil again, useless though I knew it to be. But even as I did…
— Virginia Woolf
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