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214 quotes by 194 authors

But when they were done, I wondered if there would be a next time. I felt good. I wasnâ€™t dead, yet something was dead. Perhaps… — Susanna Kaysen
I grunted. It's something I picked up over a fifteen-year career in law enforcement. Men have managed to create a complex and utterly impenetrable secret… — Jim Butcher
It's not enough, is it? Just to follow; just to have faith in someone bigger and smarter and better informed. That's how we're built, that's… — Dan Wells
They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded. — Charles Robert Maturin
I believe that the experience of love is the most human and humanizing act that it is given to man to enjoy and that it,… — Erich Fromm
Because we want the peace with half a heart and half a life and will, the war, of course, continues, because the waging of war,… — Daniel Berrigan
Art is violent. To be decisive is violent. ... To place a chair at a partial angle on the stage destroys every other possible choice,… — Anne Bogart
After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in… — Nirmala Srivastava
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and… — Paula Gunn Allen
All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse,… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the… — Peter Blair Henry
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. — Nathan Myhrvold
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.… — Al Seckel
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test… — David D. Burns
I do cook a lot for myself. I tend to cook from scratch, a lot of stews and things, lots of beans, because beans have… — Honeysuckle Weeks
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage, partial-birth abortions and… — Paul Bloom
Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K. — Robert Dallek
I thought of computers as very low class. I thought of myself as a pure mathematician and was interested in partial differential equations and topology… — Whitfield Diffie
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. — Garry Disher
Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism. — Guy Laliberte

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