Set Against Quotes
15 quotes by 15 authors
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If you can make someone laugh who's dead set against you, that's the first step to winning them over to your side.
— John Waters
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
— Thomas Carlyle
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Juliet is one of those rare novels that has it all: lush prose, tightly intertwined parallel narratives, intrigue, and historical detail all set against a…
— Sara Gruen
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The Saga of Dharmapuri is one of the great works of modern Indian literature. (...) Set against Vijayan's heroic and scatological Candide -- originally written…
— David Selbourne
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I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels…
— Richard Russo
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Last summer I was staying at a house in Hampshire which was famous for the brilliance and the originality of its gardens. There were many…
— Beverley Nichols
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I've always been dead set against festivals - really suspicious and wary.
— Elton John
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I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.
— George Steinbrenner
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I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss…
— Erich Maria Remarque
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I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
— John Milton
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Chin up, Ferdinand," I kept saying to myself, to keep up my courage. "What with being chucked out of everywhere, you're sure to find whatever…
— Louis-Ferdinand Celine
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A garden is always a series of losses set against a few triumphs, like life itself.
— May Sarton
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Briar: "They never tell you some things. They tell you mages have wonderful power and they learn all kinds of secrets. Nobody ever mentions that…
— Tamora Pierce
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There was a danger whenever I was on home ground. It was the danger of seeing my life through other eyes than my own. Seeing…
— Alice Munro
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Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my life…
— Madeleine L'Engle
Who Wrote These Set Against Quotes
15 authors contributed a total of 15 Set Against Quotes as follows: