Six Quotes
2635 Six quotes by 2078 unique authors
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Six mistakes mankind keeps making century after century: Believing that personal gain is made by crushing others; Worrying about things that cannot be changed or…
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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All she saw, down in the cellar well beneath the stoop, was a light yellow feather with a tip of green. And she had never…
— Toni Morrison
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Part of me aches at the thought of her being so close yet so untouchable, but her story and mine are different now. It wasn't…
— Nicholas Sparks
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In the English language, it all comes down to this: Twenty-six letters, when combined correctly, can create magic. Twenty -six letters form the foundation of…
— John Grogan
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Okay. Now my skin is really prickling. I've read all the Harry Potter books, all five of them. I don't remember any half-blood prince. "What's…
— Sophie Kinsella
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They're real strong magic, they make you have good luck. Not like fried chicken when you're not lookin' for it, but things like long life…
— Harper Lee
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Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three…
— Stephen King
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Andrew said you were the best person he ever knew." "He reached that conclusion before he saw me raise three barbarian children to adulthood. I…
— Orson Scott Card
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.
— Charles Dickens
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A detective story generally describes six living men discussing how it is that a man is dead. A modern philosophic story generally describes six dead…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure…
— Joseph Heller
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But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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A week in the hospital she had told us. A hysterectomy, she had said. It had seemed unremarkable to me in a woman of forty-six…
— Anna Quindlen
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He laid into me with the same gusto as a right-wing political pundit on the O'Reilly Factor defending President's Bush right to vacation six days…
— Chelsea Handler
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He had about the same life expectancy as a three legged hedgehog on a six lane motorway.
— Terry Pratchett
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Six billion of us walking the planet, six billion smaller worlds on the bigger one. Shoe salesmen and short-order cooks who look boring from the…
— Dean Koontz
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I am running into a new year and the old years blow back like a wind that I catch in my hair like strong fingers…
— Lucille Clifton
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England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and the chicken legs clutched in…
— Kage Baker
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When you put four Alaskans into a room, you have five marriages, six divorces, and seven political parties.
— Dana Stabenow
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I've only been gone a week," I reminded him. Well, a week's a long time. It's seven days. Which is one hundred and sixty-eight hours.…
— Meg Cabot
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