Utterly Quotes
850 quotes by 690 authors
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There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated.
— Francis Bacon
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The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And…
— Francis Bacon
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You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of…
— Lev Grossman
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I think we all look for clues that we are not utterly alone... Clues we find in literature and paintings and music and even someone’s…
— Jonathan Hull
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There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the…
— Mark Twain
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Some people have human muses - mine is a city. I feel a startling ambivalence towards London, but for better or worse my work has…
— Will Self
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There is an old song which asserts 'the best things in life are free.' Not true! Utterly false! This was the tragic fallacy which brought…
— Robert A. Heinlein
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Even you, who’ve lived inside your body for 64 years, would apparently be unable to recognize your foot in an isolated photograph of that foot,…
— Paul Auster
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The world is: fun, and familiar, and healthful, and unbelievably refreshing, and lovely. And it is the theater of the spiritual; it is the multiform…
— Mary Oliver
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Obviously if you want to get good at something which is competitive, you have to think about it and practice a lot. You have to…
— Charlie Munger
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The thing about startups is you can make it, and if it's wrong you can remake it, and you can build a team that you…
— John Katzman
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When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to Buddhism.
— Joan Halifax
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I think a good entrepreneur has a very clear grasp of what the goal is, an unwavering sense of the goal, an utterly agile approach…
— John Katzman
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I have a whole iPod full of exceptionally bad music, truly awful stuff including a disproportionate number of one hit wonders from the early '80s…
— Lauren Weisberger
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Are you an artist? Look about you. Is there a physical tool whose use you have mastered, a part of your body that responds utterly…
— Robert Breault
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A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape…
— Elwyn Brooks White
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Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness. Â… When you face your…
— John O'Donohue
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The prayer of faith is a prayer willing to believe and prevail for God's answer in a situation that is utterly impossible. Regardless of the…
— Wesley L Duewel
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The person who loves God cannot help loving every man as himself, even though he is grieved by the passions of those who are not…
— Maximus the Confessor
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