Series Quotes
1555 Series quotes by 1255 unique authors
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A few weeks later, I’m in a fluorescent-lit classroom in Chelsea awaiting the start of the official Mensa test. I’m sitting next to a guy…
— A. J. Jacobs
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Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means that while their…
— C.S. Lewis
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Life hinges on many factors we cannot control. Two of the most important factors, we can control. We can manage our relationships-and what is life…
— Leon Uris
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It seems to me that you won't have had a proper series of adventures, unless you've gone through thick and thin.
— Unknown Author
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Twice in her life she had mistaken something else for it; it was like seeing somebody in the street who you think is a friend,…
— Nancy Mitford
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Cirque du Freak' is the best vampire series ever.
— Darren Shan
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Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth.
— Khaled Hosseini
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I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats.
— Sherman Alexie
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Thus the white men and Native Americans were able, through the spirit of goodwill and compromise, to reach the first in what would become a…
— Dave Barry
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Emotional discomfort, when accepted, rises, crests and falls in a series of waves. Each wave washes a part of us away and deposits treasures we…
— Martha Beck
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At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you…
— Daniel Handler
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My education was dismal. I went to a series of schools for mentally disturbed teachers.
— Woody Allen
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I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
— Sylvia Plath
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You may want to keep a commonplace book which is a notebook where you can copy parts of books you think are in code, or…
— Daniel Handler
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Sometimes the one who is running from the Life/Death/Life nature insists on thinking of love as a boon only. Yet love in its fullest form…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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At what point, then, should one resist? When one's belt is taken away? When one is ordered to face into a corner? When one crosses…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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It seems to me that Canadian sensibility has been profoundly disturbed, not so much by our famous problem of identity, important as that is, as…
— Northrop Frye
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Life is a series of adjustments; You can make changes along the way, but if you dodn't start moving forward you'll never get anywhere!
— Kimora Lee Simmons
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Every period of human development has had its own particular type of human conflict---its own variety of problem that, apparently, could be settled only by…
— Isaac Asimov
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Life is just a series of peaks and troughs. And you don't know whether you're in a trough until you're climbing out, or on a…
— Ricky Gervais
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I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!
— D. J. MacHale
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Do what he will, he [the profane man] is an inheritor. He cannot utterly abolish his past, since he himself is a product of his…
— Mircea Eliade
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How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of…
— Salman Rushdie
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Learning to stop sweating the small stuff involves deciding what things to engage in and what things to ignore. From a certain perspective, life can…
— Richard Carlson
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