Strings Quotes
724 quotes by 577 authors
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When anesthesia was developed, it was for many decades routinely withheld from women giving birth, since women were "supposed" to suffer. One of the few…
— Nicholas D. Kristof
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I wish I was a woman of about thirty-six dressed in black satin with a string of pearls.
— Daphne du Maurier
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It was pitch dark. I could hear only the violin, and it was as though Juliek's soul were the bow. He was playing his life.…
— Elie Wiesel
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It is Nixon himself who represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character that almost every country in the world has…
— Hunter S. Thompson
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Happy belated birthday, Cat," he said, giving me a self-deprecating smile. "Aren't you glad Juan picked the place and not me? We wold have had…
— Jeaniene Frost
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Let there be spaces in your togetherness...just as strings of a lute dance alone though they quiver with the same music.
— Khalil Gibran
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I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar…
— Charlotte Bronte
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You can't hang around waiting for somebody else to pull your strings. Destiny's what you make of it. You have to face whatever life throws…
— Darren Shan
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hope is like a piece of string when you’re drowning; it just isn’t enough to get you out by itself.
— Robert Jordan
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And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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God, as a loving Father, will stretch our souls at times. The soul is like a violin string: it makes music only when it is…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Conversion is not the smooth, easy-going process some men seem to think... It is wounding work, this breaking of the hearts, but without wounding there…
— John Bunyan
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A gut-string classical Spanish guitar, a sweet, lovely little lady. The smell of it. Even now, to open a guitar case, when it's an old…
— Keith Richards
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The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even…
— Melina Marchetta
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I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last…
— Suzanne Collins
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You need to grab your dream out of the sky like it's a kite and pinch the string through your fingers until you reach the…
— Augusten Burroughs
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This is the story of the curse and the kiss, the demon and the girl. It's a love story with dancing and death in it,…
— Laini Taylor
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This is what happens: somebody—girl usually—got a free spirit, doesn't get on too good with her parents. These kids, they're like tied-down helium balloons. They…
— John Green
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I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture…
— Jeanette Winterson
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SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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