Placed Quotes
913 quotes by 776 authors
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Woe betide him, and her too, when it comes to things of consequence, when they are placed in circumstances requiring fortitude and strength of mind,…
— Jane Austen
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That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now…
— David Clement-Davies
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The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was to those whom…
— Brennan Manning
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Nowhere was the airport's charm more concentrated than on the screens placed at intervals across the terminal which announced, in deliberately workmanlike fonts, the itineraries…
— Alain de Botton
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Life is like molten glass. It flows, it's flexible, it can be molded and shaped and...what do you say? Ah, yes. It holds vast potential.…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Faith in the biblical sense is substantive, based on the knowledge that the One in whom that faith is placed has proven that He is…
— Ravi Zacharias
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Before she realized he was next to her, he had placed his hands over hers on the countertop, then hooped his fingers through hers. Gretel…
— Alice Hoffman
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Calpurnia evidently remembered a rainy Sunday when we were both fatherless and teacherless. Let to its own devices, the class tied Eunice Ann Simpson to…
— Harper Lee
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In me was shaping a yearning for a kind of consciousness, a mode of being that the way of life about me had said could…
— Richard Wright
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George had taken off all ten of his fingers and tied them into a bundle with what appeared to be either his own small intestines,…
— Alan Goldsher
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When in situations of stress we wonder if there is any more in us to give, we can be comforted to know that God, who…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in…
— Barbara Taylor Bradford
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But looking at this closet, so nice and arranged with their crazy lives at rest among these carefully placed clothes and footwear, she felt good…
— J R Ward
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The key to a successful relationship isn’t just in the words, it’s in the choice of punctuation. When you’re in love with someone, a well-placed…
— David Levithan
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My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has…
— Charlotte Bronte
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He ran as he'd never run before, with neither hope nor despair. He ran because the world was divided into opposites and his side had…
— Karl Marlantes
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Well, that's certainly... adequate," I told him, burying my face in his chest. I knew immediately I'd picked the wrong word. "Adequate?" He took my…
— Charlaine Harris
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I think many of the boundaries that convention has placed upon us are arbitrary, so we can fiddle with them if we fancy. Gravity's hard…
— Russell Brand
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No one can remain married today because they are not married to the one they love, they are married to their sacrifice, and pretending to…
— Sister Souljah
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