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I don't think literature would be possible in a determined world. We might go through the motions but the heart would be out of it.… — Flannery O'Connor
This is the awe-inspiring universe of magic: There are no atoms, only waves and motions all around. Here, you discard all belief in barriers to… — Frank Herbert
You did the best you could," and she seemed to believe I had. I said, "I've just been going through the motions," using the expression… — Melissa Bank
Dad took moving pictures of us children washing dishes, so that he could figure out how we could reduce our motions and thus hurry through… — Frank B. Gilbreth Jr.
A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now… — E. M. Forster
Historical fact: People stopped being people in 1913. That was the year Henry Ford put his cars on rollers and made his workers adopt the… — Jeffrey Eugenides
He had once found himself in a room with Lady Bessborough's long-haired white cat. He happened to be dressed in an immaculate black coat and… — Susanna Clarke
I haven’t got the heart to take the mickey out of him, even,” said Fred, looking over at Ron’s crumpled figure. “Mind you . .… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
So many people never pause long enough to make up their minds about basic issues of life and death. It's quite possible to go through… — Catherine Marshall
It doesn't seem to me that this fantastically marvelous universe, this tremendous range of time and space and different kinds of animals, and all the… — Richard P. Feynman
Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion. — Isaac Newton
I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems… — Francesca Lia Block
Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not… — Richard Preston
I laughed, loud enough that Delia looked up at me. She made motions for me to come over, but I pretended to be looking past… — Maggie Stiefvater
Failure to read what is happening in another's soul is not easily seen as a cause of unhappiness: but those who fail to attend the… — Marcus Aurelius
It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions… — John B. S. Haldane
The measure of our mindfulness, the touchstone for sanity in this society, is our level of productivity, our attention to responsibility, our ability to plain… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief,… — Roger Zelazny
Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. — Anais Nin
Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in… — Catherynne M. Valente
To expose our hearts to truth and consistently refuse or neglect to obey the impulses it arouses is to stymie the motions of life within… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
Sometimes Chris wished he could sneak a peek at the back of the book, so to speak, and see how it was all going to… — Jodi Picoult
Then he crouches down behind it, motions for Tess and me to sit down, and begins unbuttoning his vest. I blush scarlet and thank every… — Marie Lu
As we continued to talk, going through the motions of getting to know each other, I realized that we already did know each other, as… — Ernest Cline
We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes.… — Lauren DeStefano

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