Negative Quotes
2291 Negative quotes by 1417 unique authors
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Because people are ever willing to believe the negative over the positive. It’s easier for you to think me corrupt and evil than it is…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading…
— William Safire
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When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world.
— Zig Ziglar
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I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative…
— Immaculee Ilibagiza
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Negative desires can cause no evil if you do not allow yourself to be seduced by them.
— Paulo Coelho
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I’d learned a long time ago that you can’t prove a negative. You can prove that you did something, but it’s the devil to prove…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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The result of law inviolate is perfection–right–negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain.
— Edgar Allan Poe
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Life was a small negative space cut out of the eternal solidity, and for the first time, it felt precious - not like all of…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected,…
— Brian Weiss
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Amazing. You were so attached to it, and it still disappeared for you." “Attached! I was whocking that cloud with everything I had! Fireballs, laser…
— Richard Bach
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This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries…
— Paul Brunton
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Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action…
— Dalai Lama
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What Richard is talking about is instead admitting to the existence of negative thoughts, understanding where they came from and why they arrived, and then…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and…
— Bell Hooks
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We can lift ourselves, and others as well, when we refuse to remain in the realm of negative thought and cultivate within our hearts an…
— Thomas S. Monson
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So I didn't adopt Homer because he was cute and little and sweet, or because he was helpless and needed me. I adopted him because…
— Gwen Cooper
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…“white supremacy†is a much more useful term for understanding the complicity of people of color in upholding and maintaining racial hierarchies that do not…
— Bell Hooks
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Rosencrantz: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? Guildenstern: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You…
— Tom Stoppard
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Is there something wrong?†he asked. She gave a short negative motion with her head. And then words, so sweet, like a cool northern breeze…
— Maya Banks
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