Opening Quotes
1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors
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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness Of little leaves…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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I glanced up to see Liz and smiled. "Thank you." "I just went along for the ride. After that happened-" She waved at Derek. "You…
— Kelley Armstrong
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Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Janies lips part in surprise. She takes it. Feels really strange about opening it in front of him. She wets her lips and examines the…
— Lisa McMann
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It is true that the subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature and has in it the secret of the unseeen dynamisms…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Belief…is the insistence that the truth is what one would ‘lief’ or (will or) wish to be…Faith is an unreserved opening of the mind to…
— Alan Watts
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For some time she observed a great yellow butterfly, which was opening and closing its wings very slowly on a little flat stone. "What is…
— Virginia Woolf
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she kissed him with all the aching longing that being this close to him evoked; she kissed him in all the ways he had ever…
— Judith McNaught
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The state calls Paul Winthrop to the stand." ... Paul answered the opening questions briefly, weighing his words, his eyes on Julia's. "Would you tell…
— Nora Roberts
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Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back?…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche…
— Carl Jung
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Watching him was like opening the door to a siniging telegram; you know it's supposed to be entertaining, but you can't get beyond the sad…
— David Sedaris
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I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Opening yourself up to making mistakes and being vulnerable is what makes it beautiful and special with the person you love.
— Simone Elkeles
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Even though he was here, she couldn't quite process it. She squeered her eyes shut before opening them again. Yep, still there. Amazing.
— Nicholas Sparks
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Lying on the ceiling. Refusing to go to school. Not opening up to me. Climbing water towers. "No, she's all right.
— Kami Garcia
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A shrieking rise of power rushed into my pathways, rocking me against the wall. Ido's body slammed into mine. He was not going to let…
— Alison Goodman
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And once we reach the city, my stylist will dictate my look for the opening ceremonies tonight anyway. I just hope I get one who…
— Suzanne Collins
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Ah, well,ʺ said Abe, idly studying his fingertips. ʺI have it on good authority thereʹs going to be a new ‘gateʹ opening up soon over…
— Richelle Mead
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a perception of the cosmic unity of this higher level. And a feeling of timelessness, the feeling that what we know as time is only…
— Tom Wolfe
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As you see the opening get closer, you just can't get fast enough. And finally, just when you think you'll never get there, you see…
— Stephen Chbosky
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The thing about champagne,you say, unfoiling the cork, unwinding the wire restraint, is that is the ultimate associative object. Every time you open a bottle…
— David Levithan
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...how could I, fool that I am, go on sitting in my office, or here at home, instead of leaping onto a train with my…
— Elias Canetti
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What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the…
— George Orwell
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I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant;…
— Charlotte Bronte
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