Puts Quotes
1370 Puts quotes by 1082 unique authors
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When what we see catches us off guard, and when we write it as realistically and openly as possible, it offers hope. You look around…
— Anne Lamott
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In ten minutes they will have arrived on campus. George will have to be George; the George they have named and will recognise. So now…
— Christopher Isherwood
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Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he believes that others…
— Mary Doria Russell
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You know what I think? Fate! That's what it is fate! There's a thing that comes after a fellow:got a name,but I forgot what it…
— Georgette Heyer
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At times God puts us through the discipline of darkness to teach us to heed Him. Song birds are taught to sing in the dark,…
— Oswald Chambers
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But neither money nor machines can create. They shuttle tokens of energy, but they do not transform. A civilization based on them puts people out…
— Lewis Hyde
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Sloppy language and sloppy ways go together. Those who are truly educated have learned more than the sciences, the humanities, law, engineering, and the arts.…
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the…
— Giorgio Agamben
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I wonder how it turns out that we all lead such different lives. Take you and your sister, for example. You're born to the same…
— Haruki Murakami
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... that gender is a choice, or that gender is a role, or that gender is a construction that one puts on, as one puts…
— Judith Butler
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shame should be reserved for the things we choose to do, not the circumstances that life puts on us
— Ann Patchett
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Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course overestimated, for it is of necessity…
— Jack London
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She sits down and puts her hand to her chest and rocks. Thinks of all she has lost and will lose. All she has had…
— Elizabeth Berg
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God plants His saints in the most useless places. We say, 'God intends me to be here because I am so useful.' Jesus never estimated…
— Oswald Chambers
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It is unearned love--the love that goes before, that greets us on the way. It's the help you receive when you have no bright ideas…
— Anne Lamott
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Then I speak to her in a language she has never heard, I speak to her in Spanish, in the tongue of the long, crepuscular…
— Pablo Neruda
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Mom raised us to believe that every lie puts something out there in the world that's inevitably going to come back and bite you in…
— Karen Marie Moning
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You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people…
— Douglas Coupland
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They obeyed, as wise men do when a woman puts her foot down . . .
— Terry Pratchett
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And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it…
— Gregory David Roberts
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Cinna just smiles. 'Had a damp morning?' 'You could wring me out,' I reply. Cinna puts his arm around my shoulder and leads me into…
— Suzanne Collins
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Why are we worn out? Why do we, who start out so passionate, brave, noble, believing, become totally bankrupt by the age of thirty or…
— Anton Chekhov
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You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach…
— Tina Fey
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Your God person puts an apple tree in the middle of a garden and says, do what you like, guys, oh, but don't eat the…
— Douglas Adams
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A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all heaven in a rage.
— William Blake
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