Worked Quotes
3192 quotes by 2620 authors
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But she wouldn't. I knew that already. My mother and I had an understanding: we worked together to be as much in control of our…
— Sarah Dessen
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They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked…
— Richard Ford
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Okay, God, I thought. Get me out of this and I’ll stop my half-assed church-going ways. You got me past a pack of Strigoi tonight.…
— Richelle Mead
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Not everything you wanted, deep inside, worked out.
— Nora Roberts
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She sat in her room on the couch my parents had given up on and worked on hardening herself. Take deep breaths and hold them.…
— Alice Sebold
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If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody and no unemployment -- assuming a certain very moderate amount…
— Bertrand Russell
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At some time in the recent past someone had decided to brighten the ancient corridors of the University by painting them, having some vague notion…
— Terry Pratchett
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They send a person who can never stay," she whispered. "Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They…
— Rick Riordan
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When you have a Dancing partner, there's always gonna be a moment where the girl's gonna cry, Ginger didn't do that. But, most every other…
— Fred Astaire
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The married thing. Sometimes I look at it and feel like someone from a Dickens novel, standing outside in the cold and staring in at…
— Jim Butcher
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If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know…
— Rebecca Stead
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At least I was true. My intellectual abilities gave me a release, and an excuse. I shunned company because I preferred books; and the dreams…
— Robin McKinley
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Were all instructors to realize that the quality of mental process, not the production of correct answers, is the measure of educative growth something hardly…
— John Dewey
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Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked…
— Nora Roberts
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I tried to picture her in a class, any class, anywhere on campus, and failed miserably. I pictured her frolicking in a forest glade around…
— Maggie Stiefvater
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the times we worked harder to make the day stand out. our story demanded that we change and so we did.
— Donald Miller
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When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really PLAYED.
— Dr. Seuss
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He's a funny man, Dumbledore. I think he sort of wanted to give me a chance. I think he knows more or less everything that…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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My mother drew a distinction between achievement and success. She said that 'achievement is the knowledge that you have studied and worked hard and done…
— Helen Hayes
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No, I am never setting foot in this house again it scares me and makes me sad and I wish you could be a mom…
— Laurie Halse Anderson
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