Somewhat Quotes
664 quotes by 569 authors
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Unlike the male codfish which, suddenly finding itself the parent of three million five hundred thousand little codfish, cheerfully resolves to love them all, the…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer pain, in this…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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And you've actually watched it yourself?' I asked. 'Willingly?' Sure. I had to see it, you know? Besides we should be safe. Only one in…
— Scott Westerfeld
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You’re here.†“I am.†Jason boldly took in the way she looked. “I take it you don’t often wear that dress in court.†“Probably not…
— Julie James
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The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact…
— Aleister Crowley
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Philosophy, though unable to tell us with certainty what is the true answer to the doubts which it raises, is able to suggest many possiblities…
— Bertrand Russell
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We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we're all somewhat screwy. Every single one of us.
— Johnny Depp
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The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since…
— Suzanne Collins
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the chocolate raisins tasted somewhat fishy, but Lucy didn't care-chocolate was chocolate. She changed her mind however, when she realized that the raisins were tiny…
— Angie Sage
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How's our young guest?" he asked. As docile as any child could be, wearing a drug-delivery system as she is," said one of the ministers.…
— Frank Beddor
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She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed…
— Alice Sebold
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I'm somewhat socially inept. Slide me between two strangers at any light-hearted jamboree and I'll either rock awkwardly and silently on my heels, or come…
— Charlie Brooker
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Alcohol, I had learned, was an eloquent if somewhat inaccurate interpreter. I had placed my trust that December night in glass after glass of it,…
— Monique Truong
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Problems may be solved in the study which have baffled all those who have sought a solution by the aid of their senses. To carry…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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What we have forgotten is that thoughts and words are conventions, and that it is fatal to take conventions too seriously. A convention is a…
— Alan Watts
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We all live in a tragicomic situation, a life that is in part absurd simply because it is not of our own making. We are…
— Sheldon B. Kopp
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Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the…
— Wendell Berry
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People keep themselves at a tolerable height above an infernal abyss toward which they gravitate only by putting out all their strength and lovingly helping…
— Franz Kafka
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But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does…
— J M Coetzee
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But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on…
— Albert Camus
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