Roughly Quotes
178 quotes by 167 authors
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The businessman is only tolerable so long as his gains can be held to bear some relation to what, roughly and in some sense, his…
— John Maynard Keynes
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But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity, work…
— Caitlin Moran
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Blay said roughly,"I'm still in love with him" Saxton dropped his eyes and brushed at the top of his thigh, as if there might have…
— J R Ward
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I have already spent roughly five thousand hours asleep next to you. This has to mean something.
— David Levithan
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Economists often talk about the 80/20 Principle, which is the idea that in any situation roughly 80 percent of the “work†will be done by…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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So. You're a fallen angel." She folded her arms. "I'm not fallen," he said roughly. "Then what are you?" He shrugged. "Busted.
— Vicki Pettersson
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Dudley had reached roughly the size and weight of a young killer whale.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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When you look at me that way, I feel so beautiful." "You are beautiful." He signed deep in his chest. His hands slid up and…
— Tessa Dare
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And you love Sophie." Gideon's mouth tensed. "She's a mundane and a servant," said Gabriel. "I don't know what you expect to come of it,…
— Cassandra Clare
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Blay didn’t shake the hand that was offered. He reached over, took a hold of the fighter’s face, and drew Qhuinn in for a kiss.…
— J R Ward
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The most stable elements, Clarice, appear in the middle of the periodic table, roughly between iron and silver. Between iron and silver. I think that…
— Thomas Harris
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The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a…
— Agnes de Mille
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Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness - a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster children into strength and athletic proportion.
— William C. Bryant
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When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process.…
— Frederick Buechner
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All evidence shows that we are actually getting smarter. Roughly we are getting 10 IQ points smarter every decade. The speed of innovation is also…
— Bjarke Ingels
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If I wanted to make something that actually made a difference roughly in this industry, I would make a documentary. That would be the closest…
— Neill Blomkamp
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Women ought to be fully guarded by law in all rights of property, labor, profession, etc.; but, roughly stated, the voting population ought to represent…
— John Boyle O'Reilly
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When Katrina struck in 2005, roughly 300 deaths were recorded at hospitals, long-term care facilities and in nursing homes, according to a recently published study…
— Sheri Fink
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If the world were an orange with 18 segments meeting at the top (the North Pole), roughly 8 of them would be in Russia, Canada…
— Alex Shoumatoff
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The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to…
— Seth Shostak
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