Minute Quotes
2355 Minute quotes by 1707 unique authors
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Sometimes I get the feeling that we're just a bunch of habits. The gestures we repeat over and over, they're just our need to be…
— Nicole Krauss
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You ever laughed so hard nobody in the world could hurt you for a minute, no matter what they tried to do to you?
— Virginia Euwer Wolff
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Take it off first, soldier." He looked at her suspiciously. "Take what off?" "Your clothes. Entertain the troops." "My clothes?" He frowned. "I was sort…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Nature was one of the key forces that brought me back to God, for I wanted to know the Artist responsible for beauty such as…
— Philip Yancey
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Everybody's trying to make every minute of the present last forever. Preserve every second.
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Man has no individual i. But there are, instead, hundreds and thousands of separate small "i"s, very often entirely unknown to one another, never coming…
— G I Gurdjieff
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She lost much of her appetite. At night, an invisible hand kept shaking her awake every few hours. Grief was physiological, a disturbance of the…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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You know the minute you stop thinking about it, it'll happen.
— Sarah Dessen
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All salvation is temporary," Augustus shot back. "I bought them a minute. Maybe that's the minute that buys them an hour, which is the hour…
— John Green
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I glared at him. "I may not die now... but I'm going to die sometime. Every minute of the day, I get closer. And I'm…
— Stephenie Meyer
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But when I know that the glass is already broken, every minute with it is precious.
— Ajahn Chah
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I would give anything to escape myself, Flynn thought, just for a day, just for a minute even. Just to know what it was like…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10,000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride…
— H. L. Mencken
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In a moment of sheer terror, I realized I couldn't feel my brain. It was there just a minute ago. Maybe I really was dead.…
— Darynda Jones
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And as the years have passed, the time has grown longer. The sad truth is that what I could recall in five seconds all too…
— Haruki Murakami
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It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know…
— Annie Dillard
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But now I wonder--what if everyone is pretty much the same and it's just a thousand small choices that add up to the person you…
— Holly Black
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To stutter through it with you or even stop stuttering and say nothing, was so lucky and soft, better talk than mile-a-minute with anyone. After…
— Daniel Handler
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I came here to say that I do not recognize anyone's right to one minute of my life. Nor to any part of my energy.…
— Ayn Rand
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I think for a minute. Watching my wife fade into the distance, I put a hand on my heart. "Dead." I wave a hand toward…
— Isaac Marion
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Often a man endures for several years, submits and suffers the cruellest punishments, and then suddenly breaks out over some minute trifle, almost nothing at…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Thank God he killed the guy. Oh, now, wait a minute. What kind of a prayer was that!
— Anne Rice
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Her little fists pummeled at him, and he accepted the abuse. Until he realized she’d made an improper fist and was actually hurting herself. He…
— Gena Showalter
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It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what everyone else is up to, minute…
— Jay-Z
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I swear, sometimes it feels like there's this monkey in my head who runs around turning the dials and changing channels on me. One minute…
— Michael Thomas Ford
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