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98 Replies quotes by 84 unique authors
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Language cannot describe the scene that followed; the shouts, oaths, frantic gestures, taunts, replies, and little fights; and therefore I shall not attempt it.
— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet
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A student of James McNeill Whistler tells the great artist, 'I tend to paint what I see.' Whistler replies, 'Ah! The shock will come when…
— James Whistler
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I am in Rome! Oft as the morning ray Visits these eyes, waking at once I cry, Whence this excess of joy? What has befallen…
— Samuel Rogers
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Honey, what happened to "ladies first"? Husband replies, "That's the reason why the worlds a mess today, because a lady went first!"
— David Letterman
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History repeats the old conceits, the glib replies, the same defeats.
— Elvis Costello
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Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the…
— Victor Hugo
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A five minute call replaces the time it takes to read and reply to the original email and read and reply to their reply... or…
— Simon Sinek
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When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner…
— Calvin Trillin
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Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me the other end,"…
— Alan Watts
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Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Tiffany has been apprenticing as a witch by visiting people in need with her mentor. After meeting with one particularly sad case, she tells her…
— Terry Pratchett
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The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies.
— Andre Maurois
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Memory says, 'I did that.' Pride replies, 'I could not have done that.' Eventually, memory yields.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or…
— William Cowper
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Keep growing quietly and seriously throughout your whole development; you cannot disturb it more rudely than by looking outward and expecting from outside replies to…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The complexities of adult life get in the way of the truth. The great philosophers have always been able to clear away the complexities and…
— Mortimer Adler
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At one point, as Samuel urges Adam to raise his boys well regardless of the blood that might be in them, Adam tells him, "You…
— John Steinbeck
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Rue, who when you ask her what she loves most in the world, replies, of all things, “Music.
— Suzanne Collins
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So I only say, "So what should we do with our last few days?" "I just want to spend every possible minute of the rest…
— Suzanne Collins
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The other exception to the rule regards dealings with masochists. A masochist derives pleasure from being hurt; so denying the masochist his pleasure through-pain hurts…
— Anton Szandor LaVey
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I think of the snarling, cruel exchange back on the hovercraft. The bitterness that followed. But all I say is "I can't believe you didn't…
— Suzanne Collins
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I’ve been through all this before,’ he says to his heart. “ ‘Yes, you have been through all this before,’ replies his heart. ‘But you…
— Paulo Coelho
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You?' is all I can manage to choke out. 'Always me,' she replies softly, bashfully. 'Who else?
— Gayle Forman
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Much of her life had been lived like a balancing act on a spearpoint fence, and on a particularly difficult night when she was twelve,…
— Dean Koontz
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