Something Like Quotes
836 Something Like quotes by 686 unique authors
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A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can…
— Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Mac." He said my name and laughed. "What a name for something like you. Mac.
— Karen Marie Moning
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The two of you, there's something uncanny about the way you two are with each other. I mean everything--the way you look at each other,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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That is the Wasp, yes. But it was captured by Black Stache, and he’s coming for this ship now.” “And how do you know that?”…
— Dave Barry
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Lish tried to swear--which is always funny, because the computer won't translate it. It went something like this: "Bleep stupid bleep bleep faeries and their…
— Kiersten White
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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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Now I wonder all the time how you go back after something like that. Whether we can ever be friends again, or if what we…
— Cassandra Clare
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it’s true this world our breathing laboured inspires nothing more than obvious disgust a desire to flee without our share and no longer read the…
— Michel Houellebecq
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The brain is more than an assemblage of autonomous modules, each crucial for a specific mental function. Every one of these functionally specialized areas must…
— Oliver Sacks
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Above the comforts of Base Camp, the expedition in fact became an almost Calvinistic undertaking. The ratio of misery to pleasure was greater by an…
— Jon Krakauer
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It's great that you can listen and be a shoulder to someone, but what about when someone doesn't need a shoulder? What if they need…
— Stephen Chbosky
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She had imagined Jace leaping from the bed in astonishment and gasping something like "Egad!" This didn't happen-largely, she suspected, because Jace had seen much…
— Cassandra Clare
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We heard her come halfway up the stairs, where she must have seen the bedroom light on. Again, the normal parent reaction would have been…
— Maureen Johnson
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For a certain kind of person, love begins from something tiny or silly. From something like that or it doesnt begin at all.
— Haruki Murakami
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Attempt to be creative for the joy it brings… Select something like music, dance, sculpture, or poetry. Being creative will help you enjoy life. It…
— Richard G. Scott
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I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
— Jodi Picoult
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Hamas is regularly described as 'Iranian-backed Hamas, which is dedicated to the destruction of Israel.' One will be hard put to find something like 'democratically…
— Noam Chomsky
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Rita folded her arms around herself and peered up at me. “If you’d asked me three months ago I’d have said you were hitting the…
— C.E. Murphy
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I have a feeling that once you live through something like this, you become a little bit invincible.
— Gayle Forman
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Find a printer paper and imagine a full-grown bird shaped something like a football with legs standing on it. Imagine 33,000 of these rectangles in…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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The grace of God means something like: Here is your life. You might never have been, but you are because the party wouldn't have been…
— Frederick Buechner
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When he awoke it was dawn. Or something like dawn. The light was watery, dim and incomparably sad. Vast, grey, gloomy hills rose up all…
— Susanna Clarke
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Yes! the books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! The only years of…
— Wilkie Collins
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The "discovery" of poverty at the beginning of the 1960s was something like the "discovery" of America almost five hundred years earlier. In the case…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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It never occurred to me that our lives, until then so closely interwoven, could unravel and separate over a thing like that. But the fact…
— Kazuo Ishiguro
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