Mostly Quotes
1463 quotes by 1203 authors
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For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.
— Michael Crichton
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She supposed that houses, after all - like the lives that were lived in them - were mostly made of space. It was the spaces,…
— Sarah Waters
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But what the evil people do, that's their responsibility. The burden they have to carry. Sure, when we see 'em starting on causing some hurt,…
— Charles de Lint
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It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of…
— Anne Lamott
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That's the story of my life rich or poor and mostly poor and truly poor.
— Jack Kerouac
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And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in…
— Scott Westerfeld
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All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out.
— Mark Twain
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Crows," Maximus breathed. "Was that who I think it was?" "Phrygiar Navaris," Tavi said, nodding. "What was she doing here?" Max asked. "Getting humiliated, mostly.…
— Jim Butcher
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Nothing is easier than to admit in words the truth of the universal struggle for life, or more difficult - at least I have found…
— Charles Darwin
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I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.
— Annie Barrows
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To be fair, much of the Bible is not systematically evil but just plain weird, as you would expect of a chaotically cobbled-together anthology of…
— Richard Dawkins
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Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Life is rarely about what happened; it's mostly about what we think happened.
— Chuck Klosterman
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We knew so little about eachother. We lay mostly submerged, like ice floes with our visible social selves projecting only cool and white. Here was…
— Ian Mcewan
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…because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff… Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-the-chair-can’t-control-yourself love it. Hank, when people…
— John Green
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And now my old dog is dead, and another I had after him, and my parents are dead, and that first world, that old house,…
— Mary Oliver
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But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when…
— James M. Barrie
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She did not use it at all well mostly.
— Miley Cyrus
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We have the whitest kitchens and the most shining bathrooms in the world. But in the lovely white kitchen the average [person] can’t produce a…
— Raymond Chandler
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Mostly, though, I dream of good things...I dream that flowers will bloom in the streets..again and music will play in the...houses and kites will fly…
— Khaled Hosseini
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