Using Quotes
2654 quotes by 2109 authors
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You are using your own moral intuitions to authenticate the wisdom of the Bible - and then, in the next moment, you assert that we…
— Sam Harris
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WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE: RAPUNZEL For horse thieving, kidnapping, jail breaking, and using her hair in a manner other than nature intended! REWARD
— Shannon Hale
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Anyone who still wants to experience fairytales these days can’t afford to dither when it comes to using their brains.
— Robert Musil
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It gave her a feeling of her own power, to make something practical and beautiful just by using her own skill and creativity. It inspired…
— Kate Jacobs
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I don't think you should be an Auror, Harry," said Luna unexpectedly. Everybody looked at her. "The Aurors are part of the Rotfang Conspiracy, I…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Confronted with people who have power, and who enjoy using it, I turn into a different person, a baser and meaner one.
— Peter Høeg
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Happiness is a state of non-contradictory joy--a joy without penalty or guilt, a joy that does not clash with any of your values and does…
— Ayn Rand
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Through Nic's drug addiction, I have learned that parents can bear almost anything....I shock myself with my ability to rationalize and tolerate things once unthinkable.…
— David Sheff
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I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have…
— John Taylor Gatto
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The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.
— Douglas Adams
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Forgiving is not forgetting; its actually remembering--remembering and not using your right to hit back. Its a second chance for a new beginning. And the…
— Desmond Tutu
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Any wizard bright enough to survive for five minutes was also bright enough to realize that if there was any power in demonology, then it…
— Terry Pratchett
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Investors should be skeptical of history-based models. Constructed by a nerdy-sounding priesthood using esoteric terms such as beta, gamma, sigma and the like, these models…
— Warren Buffett
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It's not possible to search for God using the methods of a detective... There is no way. You can only wait till God's axe severs…
— Karel Capek
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Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and…
— Mark Haddon
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We are so well trained that we are our own domesticator. We are an autodomesticated animal. We can now domesticate ourselves according to the same…
— Miguel Angel Ruiz
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We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Nobody who's really using his ego, his real ego, has any time for any goddam hobbies
— J D Salinger
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Songs and smells will bring you back to a moment in time more than anything else. It's amazing how much can be conjured with a…
— Emily Giffin
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