Then Quotes
10323 quotes by 6285 authors
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As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural…
— David Attenborough
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Once a novel gets going and I know it is viable, I don't then worry about plot or themes. These things will come in almost…
— Chinua Achebe
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If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then.
— David Attenborough
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It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole…
— David Attenborough
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We really need to kick the carbon habit and stop making our energy from burning things. Climate change is also really important. You can wreck…
— David Attenborough
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Once you allow yourself to identify with the people in a story, then you might begin to see yourself in that story even if on…
— Chinua Achebe
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I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
— Margaret Atwood
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If one of the arguments against eating meat is to do with cruelty and animal intelligence, then lab meat avoids that. There's also the environmental…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you feel that there's the author and then the character, then the book is not working. People have a habit of identifying the author…
— Margaret Atwood
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Storytelling is a very old human skill that gives us an evolutionary advantage. If you can tell young people how you kill an emu, acted…
— Margaret Atwood
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations…
— Saint Augustine
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I…
— Saint Augustine
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Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.
— Saint Augustine
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Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then.
— Jane Austen
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One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty.
— Jane Austen
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We never had planned to hijack a ship. We never thought of any war plans outside the Palestinian lands. We wished that the program had…
— Abu Abbas
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a…
— Paul Auster
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God gave us faculties for our use; each of them will receive its proper reward. Then do not let us try to charm them to…
— Teresa of Avila
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Those who give themselves to prayer should in a special manner have always a devotion to St. Joseph; for I know not how any man…
— Teresa of Avila
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I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what it meant,…
— Jensen Ackles
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