Spread Quotes
1576 quotes by 1172 authors
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Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage…
— Bertolt Brecht
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Unless a man has pity he is not truly a man. If a man has not wept at the worlds pain he is only half…
— William Saroyan
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If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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I've seen it before. There are women who spread ruin through no fault of theirs, just by being too beautiful, too ful of life and…
— Willa Cather
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I, for my part, wonder of what sort of feeling, mind or reason that man was possessed who was first to pollute his mouth with…
— Plutarch
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Politics deals with externals: borders, wealth, crimes. Authentic forgiveness deals with the evil in a persons heart, something for which politics has no cure. Virulent…
— Philip Yancey
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They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again,…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.
— Salvador Dali
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Kallor said: 'I walked this land when the T'lan Imass were but children. I have commanded armies a hundred thousand strong. I have spread the…
— Steven Erikson
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How doth the little crocodile Improve his shining tail, And pour the waters of the Nile On every golden scale! How cheerfully he seems to…
— Lewis Carroll
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Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous…
— John Cheever
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The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone.
— Unknown Author
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I crossed my arms over my chest. "Are you lost, little girl? The elementary school's over on west campus." A pink flush spread over her…
— Richelle Mead
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Progress is unstoppable. It is a drumbeat to which we must all march. Technology helps and good ideas spread – these are two lows of…
— Yann Martel
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Over the millennia the seed of stories planted in the fertile soil of bits and scraps of facts was watered by wishes and began to…
— Terry Goodkind
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GOD: I own you like I own the caves. THE OCEAN: Not a chance. No comparison. GOD: I made you. I could tame you. THE…
— Dave Eggers
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During the First World War, I told her, Hitler had been a runner, delivering messages between the German trenches, and he was disgusted by seeing…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
— Thomas Sowell
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I've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.
— Stephen King
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