Spread Quotes
1576 quotes by 1229 authors
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She stood at the window, her arms spread wide, holding on to each side of the frame, it was as if she held a piece…
— Ayn Rand
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He stood up straight and looked the world squarely in the fields and hills. To add weight to his words he stuck the rabbit bone…
— Douglas Adams
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We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and…
— Charlotte Bronte
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I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is…
— Ayn Rand
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I was raised the old-fashioned way, with a stern set of moral principles: Never lie, cheat, steal or knowingly spread a venereal disease. Never speed…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire.
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Observe how many people evade, rationalize and drive their minds into a state of blind stupor, in dread of discovering that those they deal with-…
— Ayn Rand
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And in the end, of course, a true war story is never about war. It's about sunlight. It's about the special way that dawn spreads…
— Tim O'Brien
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Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back.…
— Sara Gruen
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Civilization is in a race between education and catastrophe. Let us learn the truth and spread it as far and wide as our circumstances allow.…
— H.G. Wells
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The woman was silent, her eyes on the floor. Shimamura had come to a point where he knew he was only parading his masculine shamelessness,…
— Yasunari Kawabata
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Yawns are not the only infectious things out there besides germs. Giggles can spread from person to person. So can blushing. But maybe the most…
— Vera Nazarian
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All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out…
— Gary Snyder
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Guilt -- if there was any guilt -- spread out and diffused itself over everybody and everything. . . . Perhaps at some point in…
— Philip K. Dick
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The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the…
— Romain Rolland
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Why did women always believe that talking about a problem would fix it? Some issues were corpses. Hot air made them fester and rot and…
— Brent Weeks
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As a means of dispensing formulated ignorance our boasted public school system is not without merit; it spreads out education sufficiently thin to give everyone…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Yet the only reason you believe that you were born is that your parents saw you emerge from the womb. They thought they witnessed the…
— Deepak Chopra
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My chest feels full of glitter and helium, the way it used to when I was little and riding my father's shoulders at twilight, when…
— Jodi Picoult
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I cannot think of a better way to spread the faith. No thundering from a pulpit, no condemnation from bad churches, no peer pressure, just…
— Yann Martel
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