Best Quite Qoutes
6696 Quite quotes by 4056 unique authors
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May we not suspect that the vague but very real fears of children, which are quite independent of experience, are the inherited effects of real…
— Charles Darwin
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Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor; but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him.…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Kindness, quite simply, is the rent we must pay for the space we occupy on this planet.
— Robin Sharma
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To sit patiently with a yearning that has not yet been fulfilled, and to trust that, that fulfillment will come, is quite possibly one of…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Something quite unexpected has happened. It came this morning early. For various reasons, not in themselves at all mysterious, my heart was lighter than it…
— C.S. Lewis
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The melody that the loved one played upon the piano of your life will never be played quite that way again, but we must not…
— Joshua L. Liebman
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I am quite confident that the most important part of a human being is not his physical body but his nonphysical essence, which some people…
— Harold S. Kushner
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Marijuana is quite possibly the finest of intoxicants. It has been scientifically proven, for decades, to be much less harmful to the body than alcohol…
— Nick Offerman
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How do I look so young? Quite simple: a complete vegetable diet, 12 hours sleep a night, and lots and lots of make-up.
— Truman Capote
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In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.
— Elinor Wylie
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We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.…
— Carl Sagan
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From India to Spain, the brilliant civilization of Islam flourished. What was lost to christendom at this time was not lost to civilization, but quite…
— Bertrand Russell
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It's quite possible to arrive in the year 2030 where people are no longer dying of poverty. We could actually help lead a global end-not…
— Jeffrey Sachs
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It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,…
— George Sand
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Listen, my friend, there are two races of beings. The masses teeming and happy - common clay, if you like - eating, breeding, working, counting…
— Jean Anouilh
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The number of possible "on-off" patterns of neuronal firing is immense, estimated as a staggering ten times ten one million times (ten to the millionth…
— Daniel J. Siegel
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Why is it that showers and even storms seem to come by chance, so that many people think it quite natural to pray for rain…
— Henri Poincare
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Vulnerability is beautiful to me. There might be a need to fabricate your own beauty paradigms. I guess I never quite bought into any kind…
— Hedi Slimane
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye…
— Louis Kronenberger
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Go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant - they're quite clear - that we would create law based on the God…
— Sarah Palin
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The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit…
— H. L. Mencken
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Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery.
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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Sometimes Americans don't quite get my sense of humor. My good ol' British sarcasm seems to go over their heads.
— Lee Westwood
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We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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