Within Quotes
8741 Within quotes by 4437 unique authors
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Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?"…
— Ellen Hopkins
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Namaste. It was a Nepalese greeting. It meant: The light within me bows to the light within you.
— Jennifer Donnelly
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From up above, in a plane passing over, you’d just see one little light in all this dark, with no idea of the lives that…
— Sarah Dessen
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We all have a suspicion and hope that we've just been part of something special, something that may eventually change our lives. That no one…
— Rob Lowe
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The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and…
— Paul Murray
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When we read, we are not looking for new ideas, but to see our own thoughts given the seal of confirmation on the printed page.…
— Cesare Pavese
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Any action a woman engages in from a spirit of joy, and within a similarly safe and joyous environment, falls within the city-walls of feminism.…
— Caitlin Moran
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Deep within I'm shaken by the violence of existing for only you...
— Sarah McLachlan
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It did not seem possible that Wendy Wright had been born out of blood and internal organs like other people. In proximity to her he…
— Philip K. Dick
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We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.
— Patti Smith
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[...] Shimamoto had her own little world within her. A world that was for her alone, one I could not enter.
— Haruki Murakami
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Numbers written on restaurant bills within the confines of restaurants do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of…
— Douglas Adams
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We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts…
— C.S. Lewis
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When people really hate one another, the tension within them can sometimes make itself felt throughout a room, like atmospheric waves, first hot, then cold,…
— Anthony Powell
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All I want to tell young people is that you're not going to be anything in life unless you learn to commit to a goal.…
— Louis Zamperini
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Man struggles to find life outside himself, unaware that the life he is seeking is within him.
— Khalil Gibran
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Small things such as this have saved me: how much I love my mother—even after all these years. How powerfully I carry her within me.…
— Cheryl Strayed
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Now she realized that she was not peering at a so-dark-blue-it-looked-black ocean, but rather she was looking straight through miles of incredibly clear water at…
— Fuyumi Ono
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An infinity of forest lies dormant within the dreams on one acorn.
— Wayne Dyer
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Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the…
— George R. R. Martin
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To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an…
— Fernando Pessoa
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There is a part of childhood that is childish, and a part that is sacred. Suddenly we are touching the sacred part -- running to…
— David Levithan
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THIS TORTURE Why should we tell you our love stories when you spill them together like blood in the dirt? Love is a pearl lost…
— Rumi
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The one thing I’d learned was that having someone with you all the time did not take away the loneliness. You could be surrounded by…
— Abbi Glines
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Freaks are called freaks and are treated as they are treated – in the main, abominably – because they are human beings who cause to…
— James A. Baldwin
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