We Start Quotes
311 quotes by 265 authors
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I wonder why we always deny love. I remember in middle school, if you were accused of the crime of loving, you screamed denials constantly…
— Caroline B. Cooney
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Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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It is not as important how we start (our past), but how we finish.
— Joyce Meyer
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At the time we’re stuck in it, like hostages locked in a Turkish bath, high school seems the most serious business in the world to…
— Stephen King
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to…
— D. H. Lawrence
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To journey for the sake of saving our own lives is little by little to cease to live in any sense that really matters, even…
— Frederick Buechner
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We start out in identical perfection: bright, reflective, full of sun. The accident of our lives bruises us into dirty individuality. We meet with grief.…
— Gregory Maguire
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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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From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which…
— Leonard Cohen
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Over and over, we start our own tales, compose our own stories, whether our lives are short or long. Until at last all our beginnings…
— Cameron Dokey
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We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers.…
— Irvine Welsh
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But why should you be interested in me?" Good question. I can’t explain it myself right this moment. But maybe – just maybe – if…
— Haruki Murakami
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[Riley] slapped his hands to his face and then dropped them as if in surrender. 'I always say the wrong thing around you. Look, can…
— Maria V. Snyder
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Watch it, minx," he warned with a lift of his brow. "If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my…
— Sabrina Jeffries
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Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness
— Jean Vanier
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The reason we start things is rarely the reason we continue them.
— Richard Paul Evans
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We're wired to expect the world to be brighter and more meaningful and more obviously interesting than it actually is. And when we realize that…
— Lev Grossman
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Esca tossed the slender papyrus roll onto the cot, and set his own hands over Marcus's. "I have not served the Centurion because I was…
— Rosemary Sutcliff
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When you study history and look at every civilization that has grown up and died off, they all leave one remnant: a major sports colosseum…
— Thomas Friedman
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Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a…
— Nhat Hanh
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