Unique Quotes

2193 Unique quotes by 1625 unique authors

Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work… — Dodie Smith
For writers: If you polish a book too much, it'll be flat and shiny and smooth--and not too interesting. It's the little pits and bumps… — Lori Foster
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along; people who will appreciate our compassion, our encouragement, who will need… — Leo Buscaglia
One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who… — Leon Uris
These are the moments which are not calculable, and cannot be assessed in words; they live on in the solution of memory, like wonderful creatures,… — Lawrence Durrell
Colin's skin was alive with the feeling of connection to everyone in that car and everyone not in it. And he was feeling not-unique in… — John Green
Why is it that some Christians cross land and sea, continents and cultures, as missionaries? What on earth impels them? It is not in order… — John Stott
The divine is God's concern; the human, man's. My concern is neither the divine nor the human, not the true, good, just, free, etc., but… — Max Stirner
We are all freaks. Yes! Alone in our rooms at night, we are all weirdoes and outcasts and losers. That is what being a teenager… — James St. James
I love these dudes, but I don't know what they're doing with all that facial hair these days. There's a lot of peach fuzz going… — Pete Wentz
At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in… — Pearl Cleage
Each relationship between two persons is absolutely unique. That is why you cannot love two people the same. It simply is not possible. You love… — William P. Young
... the connection between imperial politics and culture is astonishingly direct. American attitudes to American "greatness", to hierarchies of race, to the perils of "other"… — Edward Said
...what makes a story unique is not necessarily the information in the story but what the writer chooses to put in or leave out.(pg. 146-147) — Roland Smith
The distance runner is mysteriously reconciling the separations of body and mind, of pain and pleasure, of the conscious and the unconscious. He is repairing… — George A. Sheehan
Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged — Unknown Author
Perforation! Shout it out! The deliberate punctuated weakening of paper and cardboard so that it will tear along an intended path, leaving a row of… — Nicholson Baker
One of the surest tests of the superiority or inferiority of a poet is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate mature… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Apparently there is no profit in the unique, or not enough to make it worthwhile to preserve. Ultimately it drains the life out of us,… — Lewis Black
This is the moment when something once more begins visibly to happen, something truly new and unique...something truly historical, in the sense that history again… — Vaclav Havel
America is the greatest, freest and most decent society in existence. It is an oasis of goodness in a desert of cynicism and barbarism. This… — Dinesh D'Souza
Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in general and the rottenness of your life in particular. But the realism… — Jonathan Franzen
Of course genes can’t pull the levers of our behavior directly. But they affect the wiring and workings of the brain, and the brain is… — Steven Pinker
Standing on the fringes of life... offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. — Stephen Chbosky

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