Thoroughly Quotes
588 Thoroughly quotes by 475 unique authors
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I think the highest forgiveness is to accept that creation is thoroughly tangled, with every possible quality given outlet for expression. People need to accept…
— Deepak Chopra
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You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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Maybe some hidden, fragmented part of me had feared that if I admitted to Bones how much he truly meant to me, then I'd be…
— Jeaniene Frost
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I have one thing you don't,' he murmured against her neck, turning his head and nipping her earlobe. 'What?' His tongue teased her ear. 'Brute…
— Christine Feehan
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For the more a man limits himself, the nearer he is on the other hand to what is limitless; it is precisely those who are…
— Stefan Zweig
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Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like all orphans—to be…
— Fernando Pessoa
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I don't even know what I'm looking for, although I hope I'll know it if I find it along the way. Sometimes I want to…
— David Levithan
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For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject.…
— Albert Camus
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What a wonderfully exciting cough,' said the little man, quite startled by it, 'do you mind if I join you?' And with that he launched…
— Douglas Adams
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If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life.
— Joan Bauer
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The more truthful I am with myself and others, the more my conscience is clear and tranquil. Thus, I can more thoroughly and unequivocally inhabit…
— Surya Das
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What of it? If I die, I die. It will be no great loss to the world, and I am thoroughly bored with life. I…
— Mikhail Lermontov
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Our Press and our schools cultivate Chauvinism, militarism, dogmatism, conformism and ignorance. The arbitrary power of the Government is unlimited, and unexampled in history; freedom…
— Arthur Koestler
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Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others.
— Jodi Picoult
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Time, among all concepts in the world of physics, puts up the greatest resistance to being dethroned from ideal continuum to the world of the…
— John Archibald Wheeler
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Too often the educational value of doing well what is done, however little, is overlooked. One thing well done prepares the mind to do the…
— Booker T. Washington
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Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly.
— Vladimir Lenin
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You increase your self-respect when you feel you've done everything you ought to have done, and if there is nothing else to enjoy, there remains…
— Eugene Delacroix
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Casey Maddox wrote that when philosophy dies, action begins. I would say in addition that when we stop hoping for external assistance, when we stop…
— Derrick Jensen
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None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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If a man had begun to hate an object of his love, so that love is thoroughly destroyed, he will, causes being equal, regard it…
— Baruch Spinoza
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Accustom yourself to believe that death is nothing to us, for good and evil imply awareness, and death is the privation of all awareness; therefore…
— Epicurus
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