Quickly Quotes
2234 quotes by 1767 authors
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Set your mind on a definite goal and observe how quickly the world stands aside to let you pass.
— Napoleon Hill
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Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss SLOWLY. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile.
— Mark Twain
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Just go to bed, now. Quickly. Quickly and slowly.
— J D Salinger
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Crying wasn't like riding a bike. Give it up, and you quickly forget how it's done.
— Alice Hoffman
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... active love is a harsh and fearful thing compared with the love in dreams. Love in dreams thirsts for immediate action, quickly performed, and…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)
— Markus Zusak
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Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
— Fernando Pessoa
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...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely…
— Virginia Woolf
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There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's…
— Alain de Botton
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In this game he had acquired a great deal of muddled knowledge, more than one approximation and less than one certitude. And absence of energy,…
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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There’s no condition one adjusts to so quickly as a state of war.
— Alice Sebold
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I don't think we have all the words in a single vocabulary to explain what we are or why we are. I don't think we…
— Alexandra Fuller
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Was love then like a bag of assorted sweets passed around from which one might choose more than once? Some might sting the tongue, some…
— Annie Proulx
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I would rather not have upset him, but I couldn't see any reason to change my life. Looking back on it, I wasn't unhappy. When…
— Albert Camus
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My flesh was burning where the skin was scraped off my knees, and I was afraid that I couldn't be alive anymore with so much…
— Herta Muller
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Happy. And then I got afraid that it would vanish as quickly as it came. That it was accidental-- that I didn't deserve it. It's…
— Douglas Coupland
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Because civilization isn't a thing that you build and then there it is, you have it forever. It needs to be built constantly, recreated daily.…
— Steven Galloway
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She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed…
— Alice Sebold
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I go to the saltwater and wash off the blood, trying to decide which I hate more, pain or itching. Fed up, I stomp back…
— Suzanne Collins
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