Spare Quotes
476 Spare quotes by 388 unique authors
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I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the absolutely…
— Geraldine Brooks
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It's come at last," she thought, "the time when you can no longer stand between your children and heartache. When there wasn't enough food in…
— Betty Smith
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no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the…
— Abraham Lincoln
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It wasn't like the spare rooms of immigrants - packed to the rafters with all that they have ever possessed, no matter how defective or…
— Zadie Smith
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I give you five minutes to spare your blushes. here is the little bronze key that opens the ebony caskets on the mantle piece in…
— Gaston Leroux
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It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded.
— Charles Dickens
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When people are suicidal, their thinking is paralyzed, their options appear spare or nonexistent, their mood is despairing, and hopelessness permeates their entire mental domain.…
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God... It is a strange fact that Christians and even ministers frequently consider their…
— Brennan Manning
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People pontificate, "Suicide is selfishness." Career churchmen like Pater go a step further and call in a cowardly assault on the living. Oafs argue this…
— David Mitchell
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Thou that hast given so much to me give me one thing more, a grateful heart: not thankful when it pleaseth me, as if Thy…
— George Herbert
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I gave you justice, it said, as I was taught it. And I gave you mercy , too, so far as I could. While I…
— Diana Gabaldon
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Anyway, who lives a rich and beautiful life that I know? It's no longer possible, surely, for anyone who works for a living, or lives…
— Nick Hornby
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I left the woods for as good a reason as I went there. Perhaps it seemed to me that I had several more lives to…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The drab brown front of the house made it look as if it had been built from rusty spare parts. Someone always put lace curtains…
— Sarah Rees Brennan
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Every woman should have a daughter to tell her stories to. Otherwise, the lessons learned are as useless as spare buttons from a discarded shirt.…
— Karen White
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How had I managed to tie my boots? I didn’t even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was…
— Lilith Saintcrow
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Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be…
— C.S. Lewis
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Eric turned to me, kissed me on the lips very lightly, and looked at my face for a long moment. “He’ll spare you,†Eric said,…
— Charlaine Harris
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Miss Bennet, I am quite aware of your superior talent for cutting down the Lord's forsaken flock. I merely mean to spare your gown.' Thank…
— Seth Grahame-Smith
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Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within…
— Saint Augustine
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