Pre Quotes
496 quotes by 445 authors
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Devotion is diligence without assurance. Faith is a way of saying "Yes, I pre-accept the terms of the universe and I embrace in advance what…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Life is not to be taken seriously, as we are really temporary here. We are like a pre-paid card with limited validity. If we are…
— Chetan Bhagat
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I wonder now whether inner coldness and desolation may not be the pre-condition for making the world believe, by a kind of fraudulent showmanship, that…
— W G Sebald
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This pre-eminence is something [men] have unjustly arrogated to themselves. And when it's said that women must be subject to men, the phrase should be…
— Moderata Fonte
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When examining evidence relevant to a given belief, people are inclined to see what they expect to see, and conclude what they expect to conclude.…
— Thomas Gilovich
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Strange? I don't think that word comes anywhere near it. My troops are on an overnight camp three hundred kilometres away from here. I had…
— Melina Marchetta
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Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.
— Stephen King
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Although the scythe isn't pre-eminent among the weapons of war, anyone who has been on the wrong end of, say, a peasants' revolt will know…
— Terry Pratchett
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He suddenly felt nothing, or rather Nothing, a pre-tornadic stillness of zero sensation, as if he were the very space he occupied.
— David Foster Wallace
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The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us.
— Stephen Hawking
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When I see gurgling retarded children (that's God's doing, by the way, not mine) happily styling their hair with their own stinking mards, I think…
— Glen Duncan
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Life was a pre-death experience.
— Jeanette Winterson
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Where’s your sketch pad?†I asked. … “I gave that up,†Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.†“To what?†“To…
— James Ellroy
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I don’t know. Just pick one.†“Well, there’s a lot of choice. I mean, you got your flavored, your ridged, your pre-lubed, your thin, your…
— Karen Chance
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Sherlock: You're keeping a SCRAPBOOK. Only old ladies and pre-pubescent girls keep scrapbooks, John. John: It's not a scrapbook, Sherlock. I'm collecting papers relevant to…
— Guy Adams
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Do you have a Wish?' he asked, referring to this organization, The Genie Foundation, which is in the business of granting sick kids one wish.…
— John Green
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She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
— David Mitchell
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God forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine pre arrangement; forgives universally, on the grounds of atonement and on the condition of repentance and…
— Richard Salter Storrs
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The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation,…
— Christopher Hitchens
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Science can have a purifying effect on religion, freeing it from beliefs of a pre-scientific age and helping us to a truer conception of God.…
— Nevill Francis Mott
Who Wrote These Pre Quotes
445 authors contributed a total of 496 Pre Quotes, led by these top contributors: