Placed Quotes
913 quotes by 776 authors
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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in…
— David Nicholls
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Do you know who you are? God made you a woman. Accept His gift. Don't be afraid to be feminine and to add physical and…
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
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When I propose a candidate for a job I don't do it because the person in question is the best but because he is the…
— Jo Nesbo
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That which is wrong under one circumstance, may be, and often is, right under another. God said, 'Thou shalt not kill'; at another time He…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be…
— Giacomo Casanova
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I do not believe that I am made of the stuff which constitutes heroes, because, in all of the hundreds of instances that my voluntary…
— Edgar Rice Burroughs
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What do I know about God and the purpose of life? I know that this world exists. That I am placed in it like my…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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I fear your faith has been mis- placed—but then, faith usually is.
— John Green
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Vanish. Pass into nothingness: the Keats line that frightened her. Fade as the blue nights fade, go as the brightness goes. Go back into the…
— Joan Didion
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Sunday, January 27, 1884. -- There was another story in the paper a week or so since. A gentleman had a favourite cat whom he…
— Beatrix Potter
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The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on…
— Walter Benjamin
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Can anyone alter fate? All of us combined... or one great figure... or someone strategically placed, who happens to be in the right spot. Chance.…
— Philip K. Dick
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Healing blessings come in many ways, each suited to our individual needs, as known to Him who loves us best. Sometimes a ‘healing’ cures our…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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He didn't say anything. Didn't try any of the hugging bullshit, either, which was just as well. Instead, he placed a wooden case next to…
— J R Ward
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What is an adjective? Nouns name the world. Verbs activate the names. Adjectives come from somewhere else. The word adjective (epitheton in Greek) is itself…
— Anne Carson
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Yes," Marcus says. "I understand that you are concerned -- that you all are concerned. You had never heard of the Divergent a week ago,…
— Veronica Roth
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Revealingly, the central function of the Constitution as law--the supreme law--was to impose limitations not on the behavior of ordinary citizens but on the federal…
— Glenn Greenwald
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We stepped back and looked at the king of the gods, slumped in his chair snoring, and cradling his crook like a teddy bear. I…
— Rick Riordan
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Either we are adrift in chaos or we are individuals, created, loved, upheld and placed purposefully, exactly where we are. Can you believe that? Can…
— Elisabeth Elliot
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She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.
— Pat Conroy
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