Recently Quotes
765 quotes by 687 authors
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I recently spoke at a university where a student told me it was such a shame that Nigerian men were physical abusers like the father…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Here’s the thing about baseball-it’s not the individual sport I thought it was. Turns out I was wrong about that. Yeah, the batter is a…
— Barry Lyga
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Did you hear about the recently discovered temple in the Sudan ?" I stared at him. "Yeah. I'm a regular reader of National Geographic." Ol'…
— Michele Bardsley
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I'm Galladon, from the sovereign realm of Duladel. I'm most recently from Elantris, land of sludge, insanity, and eternal perdition. Nice to meet you.
— Brandon Sanderson
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A farmer friend of mine told me recently about a busload of middle school children who came to his farm for a tour. The first…
— Joel Salatin
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I saw a news report recently that measured average video game use by American men between the ages of twenty-five and thirty-five: twenty hours per…
— Joel Salatin
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In fact I no longer value this kind of memento. I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what…
— Joan Didion
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I became quietly seized with that nostalgia that overcomes you when you have reached the middle of your life and your father has recently died…
— Bill Bryson
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You know things are bad when a woman without any legs and who recently lost two of her own kids feels sorry for you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
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That scent she threw off was not anything by Chanel. Unless they’d recently added a Tragedy line.
— J R Ward
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Only recently have we come up with the technology to turn lazing around into a way of life. We've taken our sinewy, durable, hunter-gatherer bodies…
— Christopher McDougall
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It's my special magical power. I can read your mind when you're thinking dirty thoughts." "So, ninety-five percent of the time." She craned her head…
— Cassandra Clare
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You ever get any death threats? How about ex-husbands or ex-boyfriends? You run over anyone recently?†~ Morelli
— Janet Evanovich
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Mother, recently I have discovered the one way in which human beings differ completely from other animals. Man has, I know, language, knowledge, principles, and…
— Osamu Dazai
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One of the most important lessons she'd recently learned was that looking strong and confident was sometimes all the people required of you.
— Stuart Hill
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You remember too much," my mother said to me recently. "Why hold onto all that?" And I said, "where can I put it down?
— Anne Carson
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He smiled tolerantly at her. Rubbing his smooth chin its recently assassinated chin hairs, he studied her. She barely came up to Ronan's shoulder, but…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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I'd been through so much, falling short again and again, and only recently had found a place where who I was, right now, was enough.
— Sarah Dessen
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Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something…
— Daniel Keyes
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I recently read in the book My Stroke of Insight by brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor that the natural life span of an emotion—the average…
— Tara Brach
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