Thoroughly Quotes

588 Thoroughly quotes by 475 unique authors

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. — Charles Baxter
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to… — Hunter S. Thompson
The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they… — Michael Chabon
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered… — Michael Chabon
A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand… — C.S. Lewis
Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. — Francis Bacon
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. — Dodie Smith
The wish to disappear sends many travelers away. If you are thoroughly sick of being kept waiting at home or at work, travel is perfect:… — Paul Theroux
I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go to a therapist, even though I always set a trap:… — Isabel Allende
I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to… — Mark Twain
If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"… — Theodore Roosevelt
It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that… — Oscar Wilde
I laughed. It was just like Owen to make excuses for someone else’s shortcomings. Even fictional characters. Owen found my tendency to speak my mind… — Rachel Vincent
Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that… — Orson Scott Card
He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly — Orson Scott Card
Thoroughly unprepared, we take the step into the afternoon of life. Worse still, we take this step with the false presupposition that our truths and… — Carl Jung
One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men! — Fyodor Dostoevsky
That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet. — Janet Fitch
Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say — George Eliot
If she had been left alone she would have gone on, in her own way, enjoying herself thoroughly, until people found one day that she… — Doris Lessing
No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a… — Sarah Dunn
I found that many gifted people are so afraid of writing a poor story that they cannot summon the nerve to write a single sentence… — Brenda Ueland
Do you—do you think I want to—do you think I give a—I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY!" Harry roared. "You will," said Dumbledore… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Will not the very moment of great disillusionment with my brother or sister be incomparably wholesome for me becuase it so thoroughly teaches me that… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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