We Really Quotes
904 quotes by 726 authors
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Humankind cannot gain something without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. This is Alchemy's First Law of…
— Hiromu Arakawa
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This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to…
— Orson Scott Card
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Never give us what we really want. Cut the dream into pieces and scatter them like ashes. Dole out the empty promises. Package our aspirations…
— Scott Westerfeld
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How different our lives are when we really know what is deeply important to us, and keeping that picture in mind, we manage ourselves each…
— Stephen Covey
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What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . .…
— Mark Twain
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I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt if it is…
— C.S. Lewis
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Why do they always teach us that it's easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It's…
— Ayn Rand
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When we both experienced the love that consumes, we shared in the Absolute. The Absolute shows each of us who we really are; it is…
— Paulo Coelho
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All we really want is for no one to have a boring life, to be impressive, so we can be impressed. ~ on the friends…
— Dave Eggers
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I always loved English because whatever human beings are, we are storytellers. It is our stories that give a light to the future. When I…
— Nikki Giovanni
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And that's why books are never going to die. It's impossible. It's the only time we really go into the mind of a stranger, and…
— Paul Auster
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Freedom is not defined by safety. Freedom is defined by the ability of citizens to live without government interference. Government cannot create a world without…
— Ron Paul
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That will not be the time for choosing: it will be the time when we discover which side we really have chosen, whether we realized…
— C.S. Lewis
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I've come to know that what we want in life is the greatest indication of who we really are (p. 331).
— Richard Paul Evans
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Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work.…
— Charles M. Schulz
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Before we have children, we think most of the parents sitting in sacrament meeting ought to “do something about their kids.†Once we have kids,…
— Dean Hughes
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You take 5 white guys and you take 5 black guys and put em together for a week and what you won't have is 5…
— George Carlin
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Now we cannot...discover our failure to keep God's law except by trying our very hardest (and then failing). Unless we really try, whatever we say…
— C.S. Lewis
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We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.
— Douglas Adams
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Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot. Did we really…
— Barbara Pym
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