Rid Quotes
1156 quotes by 924 authors
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Reason" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I do not choose the right word, I get rid of the wrong one.
— A. E. Housman
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Go back and rid the word of that book. Fill it with words before spring comes, or winter will never end for you. And I…
— Cornelia Funke
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...I stir in bed and the memories rise out of me like a buzz of flies from a carcass. I crave to be rid of…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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Myths are public dreams, dreams are private myths. We must be willing to get rid of the life we planned, so as to have the…
— Joseph Campbell
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There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we…
— Benjamin Hoff
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You…you got rid of that dress fast," I pointed out between heavy breaths. "I thought you liked it." "I do like it," he said. His…
— Richelle Mead
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I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when…
— Marilynne Robinson
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When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding... you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your…
— Anthony de Mello
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The way I see it, the difference between farmers and suburbanites is the difference in the way we feel about dirt. To them, the earth…
— E L Konigsburg
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She was aware that in love even the most passionate idealism will not rid the body's surface of its terrible, basic importance.
— Milan Kundera
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The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism…
— Karen Armstrong
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The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Obsessed? I don't know what the word means. I know there were times when I couldn't think of anything else. I used to stay in…
— Sarah Dunant
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If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
— Ernest Hemingway
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You don't seem mad at all,' she said. But I am, although I'm undergoing a cure, because my problem is that I lack a particular…
— Paulo Coelho
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The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out…
— George Orwell
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.…
— Parker J. Palmer
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You're the oddest person I've ever met, you couldn't get rid of me if you tried.
— Audrey Niffenegger
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