Removed Quotes

537 Removed quotes by 470 unique authors

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and… — Nancy Mitford
They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm.… — A. S. Byatt
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I'm absolutely removed from the world at such times...The hours go by without my knowing it. Sitting there I'm wandering in countries I can see… — Gustave Flaubert
...for reading, once begun, quickly becomes home and circle and court and family, and indeed, without narrative, I felt exiled from my own country. By… — Matthew Tobin Anderson
I have now been an officer in this Church for a very long time. I am an old man who cannot deny the calendar. I… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I compare myself with my former self, not with others. Not only that, I tend to compare my current self with the best I have… — Kay Redfield Jamison
I grew up in the midst of poverty but every black kid that I knew could read and write. We have to talk about the… — Bell Hooks
Travel was pointless. It removed you from the place in which you had a meaning, and to which you gave meaning in return by dedicating… — Salman Rushdie
[As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with… — William H. Gass
When you dig a well, there's no sign of water until you reach it, only rocks and dirt to move out of the way. You… — Deepak Chopra
To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of… — Aleister Crowley
New York is strange in the summer. Life goes on as usual but itâ€™s not, itâ€™s like everyone is just pretending, as if everyone has… — Peter Cameron
I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it. — Michael Grant
He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the leaves… — Jonathan Safran Foer
You will remember when a bird crashed through the window and fell to the floor. You will remember, those of you who were there, how… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Doubt can only be removed by action. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and entwined with our whole civic and social life that it would be literally impossible for us… — Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing seems crueler--or more ironic--than these upper crusters who never pay a dime for their high-priced shrinks or reflexology sessions to call those who just… — Michael Moore
...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love. — John Steinbeck

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