Type Quotes

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The type of human being we prefer reveals the contours of our heart. — Jose Ortega y Gasset
That's why I like listening to Schubert while I'm driving. Like I said, it's because all his performances are imperfect. A dense, artistic kind of… — Haruki Murakami
I detest the idea that love between two persons can lead to salvation. All my life I have fought against this oppressive type of relationship.… — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually… — Flannery O'Connor
Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for… — Daniel Handler
This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put. — Winston Churchill
We talk of wild animals but man is the only wild animal. It is man that has broken out. All other animals are tame animals;… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't. — Paul Reiser
Between shame and shamelessness lies the axis upon which we turn; meteorological conditions at both these poles are of the most extreme, ferocious type. Shamelessness,… — Salman Rushdie
What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a… — Oscar Wilde
The most depraved type of human being ... (is) the man without a purpose. — Ayn Rand
Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled on gate-posts and paving-stones along the weary road that others have tramped before us;… — Evelyn Waugh
I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and… — Brian Selznick
there are two types of people in the world: those who prefer to be sad among others, and those who prefer to be sad alone. — Nicole Krauss
He was a thorough good sort; a bit limited; a bit thick in the head; yes; but a thorough good sort. Whatever he took up… — Virginia Woolf
The big occurrences in life, the serious ones, have for me always been nearly impossible to recognize because they never feel big or serious. In… — Curtis Sittenfeld
There are ways of dying that don't end in funerals. Types of death you can't smell. — Haruki Murakami
Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. — Dodie Smith
Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those… — Stephen Colbert

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