Using Quotes
2654 quotes by 2126 authors
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So many times I feel I'm using the same words over and over, like a woman wearing the same dress every day. So boring!
— Mitch Albom
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Piracy is robbery with violence, often segueing into murder, rape and kidnapping. It is one of the most frightening crimes in the world. Using the…
— Nick Harkaway
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Whatever, bro. We both had a long day. Too much drama. I'll TTYS." I wanted to ridicule him for using chatspeak IRL, but I found…
— John Green
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I don't know who Azazel is," he said. "Isn't he the cat from The Smurfs?" He cast about , but Isabelle just looked up and…
— Cassandra Clare
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My decision not to eat animals anymore was paramount to my growth as a spiritual person. It made me aware of greed and made me…
— Portia de Rossi
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Neither son loved the father for himself. They both were using the father for their own self-centered ends rather than loving, enjoying, and serving him…
— Timothy Keller
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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When I’m a teacher, I won’t be using red pens to grade papers. Red pens will forever be associated with criticism and bad grades in…
— Susane Colasanti
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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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Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of magic-using humans who…
— Kim Harrison
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Look at those numbers running. Money makes time. It used to be the other way around. Clock time accelerated the rise of capitalism. People stopped…
— Don DeLillo
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President Wilson says a leader must treat public opinion the way a sailor deals with the wind, using it to blow the ship in one…
— Ken Follett
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Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out?…
— Aldous Huxley
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Most people go through life using up half their energy trying to protect a dignity they never had
— Raymond Chandler
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It did no good to cry, she had learned that early on. She had also learned that every time she tried to make someone aware…
— Steig Larsson
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...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say…
— Ford Madox Ford
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After weeks on the road, listening to a language you don’t understand, using a currency whose value you don’t comprehend, walking down streets you’ve never…
— Paulo Coelho
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That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.
— J R Ward
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I looked at her. Sheila was my girl--the girl I wanted--and wanted for keeps. But it wasn't any use having illusions about her. Sheila was…
— Agatha Christie
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You moved my head so that it was lying in your lap. "Keep your eyes open," you said. "Stay with me." I tried. It felt…
— Lucy Christopher
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