Partly Quotes
401 Partly quotes by 361 unique authors
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Her tears were partly tears of happiness, for she felt that the strangeness between them was gone. She loved him now with a new love…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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I love Nature partly because she is not man, but a retreat from him. None of his institutions control or pervade her. There a different…
— Henry David Thoreau
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in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made…
— Hannah Arendt
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I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is made…
— Edward Said
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A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I…
— William Shakespeare
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We're not obsessed by anything, you see," insisted Ford. "..." "And that's the deciding factor. We can't win against obsession. They care, we don't. They…
— Douglas Adams
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It's partly true, too, but it isn't all true. People always think something's all true.
— J D Salinger
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Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Wisdom consists partly in not pretending anymore, in discarding artifice.
— Julian Barnes
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She looked at me like I was crazy. Most of my lovers do, and that's partly why they love me, and partly why they leave
— Neal Stephenson
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And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusually attractive, or ambitious, or even charming.…
— Nicholas Sparks
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Statistically speaking, there's a better chance that some part of me will go on to greatness somewhere in the world. I'd rather be partly great…
— Neal Shusterman
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So when the moon's only partly full, you only feel a little wolfy?" "You could say that." "Well, you can go ahead and hang your…
— Cassandra Clare
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I'm partly somebody else trying to fit in and say the right things and do the right thing and be in the right place and…
— Beatrice Sparks
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The writer has little control over personal temperament, none over historical moment, and is only partly in charge of his or her own aesthetic.
— Julian Barnes
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As someone very sagely said during the parricide trials of the Menendez Brothers: anytime your kids kill you, you are at least partly to blame.
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a…
— Rick Riordan
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And Dorothea..she had no dreams of being praised above other women. Feeling that there was always something better which she might have done if she…
— George Eliot
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Happiness, as is evident, depends partly upon external circumstances and partly upon oneself.
— Bertrand Russell
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But because of his telling, many who did not believe have come to believe, and some who did not care have come to care. He…
— Elie Wiesel
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