Best They Came Proverbs
301 They Came quotes by 264 unique authors
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They came out in a dim, damp basement - a generic sort of place, full of moulding boxes. 'You take me to the nicest places,'…
— Rachel Caine
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I had seen that look before, on the faces of tourists visiting the Texas Book Depository in Dallas where Lee Harvey Oswald took the shots…
— David Wong
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Some things come with their own punishments. Like bedrooms with built-in cupboards. They would all learn more about punishments soon. That they came in different…
— Arundhati Roy
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Everything that comes together falls apart. Everything. The chair I’m sitting on. It was built, and so it will fall apart. I’m gonna fall apart,…
— John Green
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They came looking for dark and terrible revelations and instead found out something even more dark and terrible: that their lives were trite and boring.
— David Wong
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Ordinary life did not stop just because kings rose and fell, Mosca realized. People adapted. If the world turned upside down, everyone ran and hid…
— Frances Hardinge
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Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here,…
— Colleen McCullough
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Suddenly it was obvious to Connor why they don't teach it. Once education was restructured and corporatized, they didn't want kids knowing how close they…
— Neal Shusterman
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We like to pretend that our generous impulses come naturally. But the reality is we often become our kindest, most ethical selves only by seeing…
— Cheryl Strayed
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The theatre is a place where one has time for the problems of people to whom one would show the door if they came to…
— Tennessee Williams
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Life can be so good if you let it. But you must trade with life. You give something and you get something, then you give…
— Judith McNaught
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Just because they didn’t shoot you all in the head doesn’t mean their intentions were somehow honorable. Why do you think they came here? Just…
— Veronica Roth
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I looked at everyone and wondered where they came from, and who they missed, and what they were sorry for.
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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Many years later, after Niemöller had been imprisoned for eight years in concentration camps as the personal prisoner of Adolf Hitler, he penned these infamous…
— Eric Metaxas
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And so it was settled. Sam Gamgee married Rose Cotton in the spring of 1420 (which was also famous for its weddings), and they came…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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...they came to see what happened to their town, to see if it was indeed lying burnt and bleeding. Many of them also came to…
— Stephen King
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I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people...…
— Ruth St. Denis
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There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself.
— C.S. Lewis
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I'm not sure about these cookies ... They came from the local 7/11 bakery, or whatever.
— Mitt Romney
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When donors visited the Black Panther Party, they came and saw our real programs, a real clinic, with real doctors and medics, giving service to…
— Bobby Seale
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My favorite band of all time is The Clash. The thing I love about The Clash is they started out as guys who could barely…
— Michael Franti
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Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
— Jamie Lynn Sigler
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In politics, they found there were not enough females in the House of Commons, so they came up with the idea of shortlists having to…
— Gordon Taylor
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In Romania, of course, gymnastics is among the most popular sports, and my parents had a dream of escaping the Ceausescu regime and giving their…
— Dominique Moceanu
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I have every single Ferrari that came out. I have all the Mercedes they came out with, all the Jaguars they came out with, all…
— Ion Tiriac
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