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496 Pre quotes by 445 unique authors

I have spent weeks in the desert, forgetting to look at the moon, he says, as a married man may spend days never looking into… — Michael Ondaatje
You are actually pre-paving your future experiences constantly. ... You are continually projecting your expectations into your future experiences. — Esther Hicks
...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity… — Michel Foucault
What is perceptible to one’s mistrust is the cut-and-dried way that life is divided up and the ready-made form it assumes, the ever-recurring sameness of… — Robert Musil
You're not allowed to call them dinosaurs any more," said Yo-less. "It's speciesist. You have to call them pre-petroleum persons. — Terry Pratchett
The passive American consumer, sitting down to a meal of pre-prepared food, confronts inert, anonymous substances that have been processed, dyed, breaded, sauced, gravied, ground,… — Wendell Berry
Wait a minute! Wait a minute! I figured this out. I know what's wrong with what we've done in Iraq. We've been following time as… — Jon Stewart
All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in… — Washington Irving
A woman must wait for her ovaries to die before she can get her rightful personality back. Post-menstrual is the same as pre-menstrual; I am… — Florence King
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. There is one obvious reason why this should be so. The… — Bruce Chatwin
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because… — George Bernard Shaw
I'm convinced no one actually likes clubs. It's a conspiracy. We've been told they're cool and fun; that only "saddoes" dislike them. And no one… — Charlie Brooker
I accidentally vaporize my pre-algebra teacher — Rick Riordan
There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind. — Friedrich Nietzsche
You speak baby gibberish?' asked Jack. 'Fluently. The adult-education center ran a course, and I have a lot of time on my hands.' 'So what… — Jasper Fforde
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The universe does not behave according to our pre-conceived ideas. It continues to surprise us. — Stephen Hawking

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