Stood Quotes
1356 quotes by 999 authors
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You can never tell about a person by guessing...that's why language was invented. Otherwise, we'd all be like dogs, sniffing each other to find out…
— Alice Hoffman
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As a child, Zaphod had been diagnosed with ADHDDAAADHD (ntm) ABT which stood for Always Dreaming His Dopey Days Away, Also Attention Deficit Hyperflactulance Disorder…
— Eoin Colfer
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Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow,…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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He put the book down. “As you wish.†He rose and walked past me. I lowered my sword, expecting him to pass, but suddenly he…
— Ilona Andrews
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(from John Hay's diary) “The President never appeared to better advantage in the world,†Hay proudly noted in his diary. “Though He knows how immense…
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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There was no warning, not even a knock. The door flew open, and he forgot his present aches and pains in anticipation of what lay…
— Barbara Mertz
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I am the most incurably lazy devil that ever stood in shoe leather.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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That's a movie quote, right? You know, if you do that with books, people think you're intelligent." Sophie lowered her chin. "If this is your…
— Jennifer Crusie
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So far Kat has been through all the Wa's she could think of, but Hale hadn't admitted to being Walter or Ward or Washington. He'd…
— Ally Carter
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We stood up and bade each other farewell, but love and despair stood between us like two ghosts, one stretching his wings with his fingers…
— Khalil Gibran
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Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in…
— Paullina Simons
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She looked down again and I was stymied. I sat. Oh, this was enough to make me love her, because I was right with her,…
— Steve Martin
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Each soldier was the living image of the others, but there was one who was a bit different. He had only one leg, for he…
— Hans Christian Andersen
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The poet must not only write the poem but must scrutinize the world intensely, or anyway that part of the world he or she has…
— Mary Oliver
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My heart skipped a beat and then flat-out tripped over itself and fell on its face. Then my heart stood up, brushed itself off, took…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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Red was the blood of the siblings massacred in the North, black was for mourning them, green was for the prosperity Biafra would have, and,…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Clave thinks the wards will stand forever because they’ve stood for a thousand years. But so did Rome, till the barbarians came. Everything falls…
— Cassandra Clare
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The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the…
— Lurlene McDaniel
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When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.
— Hannah Arendt
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But even as she told herself that, she remembered the way Cal had looked today with his shirt off while he’d stood on the ladder…
— Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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