Sets Quotes
1178 quotes by 1024 authors
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Most of us have no sympathy with the rich idler who spends his life in pleasure without ever doing any work. But even he fulfills…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Under capitalism the common man enjoys amenities which in ages gone by were unknown and therefore inaccessible even to the richest people. But, of course,…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed…
— Francoise Sagan
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colleges being nothing but grooming schools for the middle-class non-identity which usually finds its perfect expression on the outskirts of the campus in rows of…
— Jack Kerouac
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But if fate won’t be denied...if it’s set, how could there be infinite possibilities? (Kat) Only certain aspects are fated. The outcome isn’t. It was…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Familiarity breeds contempt. By bringing them in close, they realize that you’re just as human as they are. That’s when the madness sets in. They…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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It only takes one mistake,' the Dan Banyan guy says, 'and nothing else you ever do will matter.' With his empty hand, he takes one…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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What needs to be discharged is the intolerable tenderness of the past, the past gone and grieved over and never made sense of. Music ransoms…
— Walker Percy
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Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.
— Isaac Newton
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It’s easy to want peace and love in hypothetical situations—then reality sets in, and sometimes we have to do what’s ugly.
— Richelle Mead
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The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Did you see a doctor? (Syn) Yeah. It’ll heal. (Cruel) Did your mom say anything? (Syn) Clean the blood out of the carpet before it…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Some people never find the right kind of love. You know, the kind that steals your breath away, like diving into snowmelt. The kind that…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the floor.…
— Diane Ackerman
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Several sets of arms would embrace me. But in the end, the only person I truly want to comfort me is Haymitch, because he loves…
— Suzanne Collins
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Will: Have you ever seen what happens to someone with demon pox? First it lies dormant. One begins to turn yellow and green. Then the…
— Cassandra Clare
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Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode amounts to a…
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
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From that time forth he believed that the wise man is one who never sets himself apart from other living things, whether they have speech…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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