Sent Quotes
1466 Sent quotes by 1153 unique authors
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I had the easiest publishing experience in the entire world. I sent out fifteen courier letters to agents, got five no replies, nine rejections and…
— Stephenie Meyer
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Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all over,…
— Jerry Spinelli
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Some day there may be... machinery that needs but to be wound up and sent roaming o'er hill and dale, through fields and meadows, by…
— Edward Steichen
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It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from…
— John Updike
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Most reformers wore rubber boots and stood on glass when God sent a current of Commonsense through the Universe.
— Elbert Hubbard
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The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel to much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful 'adjustment'…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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In 1976 I was working in the Gulf Country around Cape York, in an aboriginal community of about 300 people. The Health Department sent around…
— Archie Kalokerinos
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A presentation copy, reader,-if haply you are yet innocent of such favours-is a copy of a book which does not sell, sent you by the…
— Charles Lamb
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When all men were of one language, some of them built a high tower, as if they would thereby ascend up to heaven, but the…
— Josephus
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...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old…
— Saul Bellow
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I like the story about Henry David Thoreau, who, when he was on his death bed, his family sent for a minister. The minister said,…
— Stewart Udall
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A man writing a letter is a man in the act of thinking, and it was an exercise Reagan obviously enjoyed. After his first meeting…
— Russell Baker
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It was the East that should have sent us missionaries.
— Jean Cocteau
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Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
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I sent my father to Mecca for Hajj with my first paycheck
— Mamadou Sakho
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I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They…
— Ernest Gaines
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Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not…
— Sean O'Casey
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Remember that the word of God is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in…
— Adam Clarke
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If there are amazing graces on this earth, I believe that they are these good children sent to us by God and not yet soiled…
— Jonathan Kozol
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The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south…
— Nelson A. Miles
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