Particularly Quotes
1950 Particularly quotes by 1551 unique authors
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As we have seen, nobody is lucky enough not to be born, everybody is unlucky enough to have been born – and particularly bad luck…
— David Benatar
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I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in…
— Thornton Wilder
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It was as if the demise of the owner had lent the flat a physical void it hadn't had before. At the same time he…
— Jo Nesbo
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All forms of love are necessary, and none are to be ignored, but all of us find some forms of love to be more emotionally…
— Timothy Keller
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I thought about the bigger picture of my life, and about the people—and particularly the guys—I would encounter during my lifetime. How would I ever…
— Rachel Cohn
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This isn't a particularly novel observation, but the world is full of people who think they can manipulate the lives of others merely by getting…
— Groucho Marx
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He seems designed specifically for speed and deadly accuracy. But not strength, not particularly-he is smart, but not strong. Only strong enough to carry me.
— Veronica Roth
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We can scarcely indeed look into any part of the sacred volume without meeting abundant proofs, that it is the religion of the Affections which…
— William Wilberforce
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You'll live forever in our hearts, big man. That particularly galled me, because it implied the immortality of those left behind: You will live forever…
— John Green
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I particularly scorn my fondness for paradox. I despise pessimism, narcissism, solipsism, truculence, word-play, and pusillanimity, my chiefer inclinations; loathe self-loathers ergo me; have no…
— John Barth
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What happened to your face?" Harriet asked. "It was a misunderstanding," Daniel said smoothly, wondering how long it might take for his bruises to heal.…
— Julia Quinn
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He kills people. Now I'm no expert, but doesn't that make you a bad person?" Jamie glared at Nick. "You've killed a lot more people…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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There is always something particularly delightful about exceptions to a rule.
— Elizabeth Goudge
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I had kissed my share of men, particularly during the war years, when flirtation and instant romance were the light-minded companions of death and uncertainty.…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Considering Adrian had once gotten bored while reading while reading a particularly long menu, I had a hard time imagining he'd read the Hugo book…
— Richelle Mead
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I do not care if they do not like me," he said. "Maybe then they will let me alone, and I will not have to…
— Naomi Novik
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Perhaps it is indeed time I began to look at this whole matter of bantering more enthusiastically. After all, when one thinks about it, it…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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He is not sweet or gentle or particularly kind. But he is smart and brave, and even though he saved me, he treated me like…
— Veronica Roth
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I pass through many Me's in the course of my day, each one selfish with his time. The Lying-in-Bed me and the Enjoying-the-Hot-Shower Me are…
— David Mitchell
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Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotte’s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was…
— Meg Waite Clayton
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Stone dead," said Howard, as though there were degrees of deadness, and the kind that Barry Fairbrother had contracted was particularly sordid.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Yes. I was looking for Lettie. They were both very kind to me,” Percival said, “Even though they’d never seen me before. And Wizard Howl…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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There's no reason whatsoever to drink eight glasses of water a day unless you, for whatever reason, particularly like the taste of water
— John Green
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Scolding must be very, very fun, otherwise children would be allowed to do it. It is not because children don’t have what it takes to…
— Daniel Handler
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The chief problem about death, incidentally, is the fear that there may be no afterlife - a depressing thought, particularly for those who bothered to…
— Woody Allen
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