Starting Quotes
1743 Starting quotes by 1426 unique authors
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The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a…
— Evelyn Waugh
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I said, "I don't think I can give you that kind of emotion." And he [Hitchcock] sat there and said, "Ingrid, fake it!" Well, that…
— Ingrid Bergman
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Vella looked around. "This is really a revolting place, Yarblek," she told him. "You've been spending too much time with Porenn," he said. "You're starting…
— David Eddings
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A woman’s magazine quiz: Question: You decide to do the dread deed and just as things are starting to get hot he comes, rolls over,…
— Christopher Moore
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She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her,…
— Larissa Ione
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The search for the purpose of life has puzzled people for thousands of years. That’s because we typically begin at the wrong starting point—ourselves. We…
— Rick Warren
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Okay, now you're starting to scare me," Wes says. "No, scary is the way people can alter their voices on cue. Like your imitation of…
— Laurie Faria Stolarz
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in the last month or so, i have read the great gatsby and a separate peace. i am starting to see a real trend in…
— Stephen Chbosky
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Boys are unpredictable. This maybe not be news, but I'm starting to think it's one of the best things about them.
— Kate Brian
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The world is so huge that people are always getting lost in it. There are too many ideas and things and people too many directions…
— Susan Orlean
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Sam was starting to feel anxious. Nutella and noodles were fine. Great in fact. Miraculous. But he'd been hoping for more food more water more…
— Michael Grant
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But Captain Vere was now again motionless, standing absorbed in thought. Again starting, he vehemently exclaimed, "Struck dead by an angel of God! Yet that…
— Herman Melville
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Cassidy's heart tried to leap out through his taught skin and hop into his wet hands. But outwardly it was all very calm, very serene,…
— John L. Parker Jr.
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Because it was starting to get dark, and because the streets were crowded, I bumped into a googolplex people. Who were they? Where were they…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too…
— C.S. Lewis
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Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans…
— Jim Butcher
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[I]t just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left. Like my lungs were made…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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But the stars that marked our starting fall away. We must go deeper into greater pain, for it is not permitted that we stay.
— Dante Alighieri
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Once again, I don’t quite know where I’m headed Steph. It seems that every few years I’m shoveling up the pieces of my life and…
— Cecelia Ahern
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Now I see some family resemblance. I was starting to wonder if Jill was adopted, but you two kind of look like each other." "So…
— Richelle Mead
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I think at this point, safety isn't a feeling, it's a process. Starting with trust.
— Lisa Kleypas
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Tod's pale brows arched halfway up his forehead, and he looked suddenly, achingly wistful. "She knows not what she says..." Maybe not. But I was…
— Rachel Vincent
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...something was starting to take shape, out of magic and will. Smoke and bone.
— Laini Taylor
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that expression you get in your eyes when you are very tired and everything is like a dream and you are starting to know what…
— Jean Rhys
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It's for personal reasons," I say stiffly, which is what my mother had always told me to say about things that had to do with…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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