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342 quotes by 312 authors
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Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be…
— Bill Bryson
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A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition…
— Jane Austen
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Lissa knelt down, compassion on her face. I wasn't surprised, since she'd always had a thing for animals. She'd lectured me for days after I'd…
— Richelle Mead
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She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.
— Arundhati Roy
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So she viewed time spent in the land of the normal as an investigation into the world of marriage-worthy men, even if she was unsure…
— Steve Martin
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When you want to take over a city, you have to destroy the illusion of safety it provides. You have to hit the large well-protected…
— Ilona Andrews
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Take one story, viewed from two different angles. It is the same day, the same moment, but one angle ends happily... and the other ends…
— Mitch Albom
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They were viewed very much like castles, I suppose: as crumbling, obsolete relics, with no real modern function other than as tourist attractions. But when…
— Max Brooks
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In my mind, President Snow should be viewed in front of marble pillars hung with oversized flags. It's jarring to see him surrounded by the…
— Suzanne Collins
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Between the Great Depression and the 1970s, private business was viewed with suspicion even in most capitalist economies. Businesses were, so the story goes, seen…
— Ha-Joon Chang
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There is, I have heard, a little thing called sunrise, in which the sun reverses the process we all viewed the night before. You might…
— Lauren Willig
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A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of…
— George Orwell
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At best we are but clay, animated dust; but viewed as sinners, we are monsters indeed. Let it be published in heaven as a miracle…
— Alistair Begg
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I do not like a high-organized church. I think that as soon as the congregation reaches a level of one hundred or so people, it…
— Charles M. Schulz
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He was constantly reminded of how startlingly different a place the world was when viewed from a point only three feet to the left.
— Douglas Adams
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The one great principle of the English law is, to make business for itself. There is no other principle distinctly, certainly, and consistently maintained through…
— Charles Dickens
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If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
— David Mitchell
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It was one of those moments—which sometimes occur only at the interval of years—when a man's moral aspect is faithfully revealed to his mind's eye.…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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...by the time we understand the pattern we are in, the definition we are making for ourselves, it's too late to break out of the…
— Robert Penn Warren
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They all attended Hester's church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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