Specifically Quotes
375 quotes by 356 authors
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I think we have to ask this administration, and the President specifically, about using their political capital now to stand up for the American consumer…
— Ron Wyden
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When someone you love dies, and you're not expecting it, you don't lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long…
— John Irving
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You weren't an accident. You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the earth…
— Max Lucado
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Blanche, prosaic in a pale yellow sweater and blue jeans, was wondering again if anything mattered—-life, faith--specifically, finishing homework assignments.
— Regina Doman
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Specifically, I’d like to debate whether cannibalism ought to be grounds for leniency in murders, since it’s less wasteful.
— Bill Watterson
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First of all, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary. I know what it says on the cover, but when…
— Jeff Kinney
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...a choice had to be made when your husband said something unkind. Specifically: be cruel, be strong, or sulk. 'Be cruel' by saying an unkind…
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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And what is a kiss, specifically? A pledge properly sealed, a promise seasoned to taste, a vow stamped with the immediacy of a lip, a…
— Edmond Rostand
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Agreements. Specifically, a treaty ratified by all the orders of whimsical like forms who dwell here that affords a measure of security for mortal caretakers.…
— Brandon Mull
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I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically, why my life ended. And if you're listening…
— Jay Asher
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Enoch...why are you here? Why has my spirit been incarnated into a physical bodi in this world generally? Or specifically, why am I here in…
— Neal Stephenson
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To Garan's credit, the treatment of Dellian prisoners did change after that. One particularly laconic man, after a session in which Fire learned positively nothing,…
— Kristin Cashore
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Plan specifically so you can implement flexibly.
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Who's they?" He wanted to know. "Who, specifically, do you think is trying to murder you?" "Every one of them," Yossarian told him. "Every one…
— Joseph Heller
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Mr L Prosser was, as they say, only human. In other words he was a carbon-based life form descended from an ape. More specifically he…
— Douglas Adams
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We all have one idea of what the color blue is, but pressed to describe it specifically, there are so many ways: the ocean, lapis…
— Sarah Dessen
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The war against working people should be understood to be a real war…. Specifically in the U.S., which happens to have a highly class-conscious business…
— Noam Chomsky
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My time in the arena made me realize how I needed to stop punishing [my mother] for something she couldn't help, specifically the crushing depression…
— Suzanne Collins
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The worm hissed. "You said it couldn't see!" shouted Oates, forgetting Umber's instruction to be silent. He shook a fist. "We all heard it, Umber!…
— P.W. Catanese
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I'd learned enough from life's experiences to understand that destiny's interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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