Possibly Quotes
1640 quotes by 1310 authors
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But, who is Death? A figure that harrows and wastes wherever and however it pleases. This is also a possible description of the Countess Bathory.…
— Alejandra Pizarnik
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You are the heir to the Kingdom. Prosperity is your birth right and you hold the key to more abundance in every area of your…
— Henri Nouwen
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Then when dusk began to settle he would retrace his steps, back to his own world. And on the way home, a loneliness would always…
— Haruki Murakami
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Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought…
— Ernest Hemingway
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I should love to satisfy all, if I possibly can; but in trying to satisfy all, I may be able to satisfy none. I have,…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Jane Gallagher had wanted to know what time it was, but for some reason Holden Caulfield hadn't wanted Stradlater to tell her. When Stradlater refused…
— Frank Portman
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They can romanticize us so, mirrors, and that is their secret: what a subtle torture it would be to destroy all the mirrors in the…
— Truman Capote
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I stared at her in amazement. "How do you even live with yourself?"..."You're willing to sell children to a foreign government so they can be…
— James Patterson
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Our life is made up of time; our days are measured in hours, our pay measured by those hours, our knowledge is measured by years.…
— Cecelia Ahern
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She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.
— John Irving
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I can see that I imagine all kinds of rejection that never happens. I can see that I beg and plead for love that is…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we…
— Sam Harris
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In defiance of Miss Maccalariat I'd like to commit hanky-panky with you, Miss Adora Belle Dearheart... well, certainly hanky, and possibly panky when we get…
— Terry Pratchett
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A method of procuring sensations? Do you think then, that a man who has once committed a murder could possibly do the same crime again?…
— Oscar Wilde
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Little fussy Otto, in his red-lined black opera cloak with pockets for all his gear, his shiny black shoes, his carefully cut widow's peak and,…
— Terry Pratchett
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How can you possibly believe he really loves you?†Miss Sneezy looks from the Mother to the Saint to Mr. Whittier’s hand.“You have no choice, 
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and…
— Carlos Castaneda
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That the boat did not upset I simply state as a fact. Why it did not upset I am unable to offer any reason. I…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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Order cannot possibly be brought about through conformity to a pattern, under any circumstances.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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