Worked Quotes
3192 quotes by 2620 authors
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Why on earth do you carry a mirror around with you?†“It's purely a defensive device. We seldom quarrel, and this is one of the…
— Theodore Sturgeon
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I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or…
— Henry Ford
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I wasn’t gifted. Mom was wrong. I was just smart and I worked hard. I had fooled myself into thinking that was something important to…
— Ned Vizzini
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I imagine John Watson thinks love’s a mystery to me, but the chemistry is incredibly simple and very destructive. When we first met, you told…
— Mark Gatiss
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You're attracted to him," Kylie said. "And don't try to deny it. You've even admitted that much to me." "Okay, I won't deny that. He's…
— C.C. Hunter
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It was amazing how it worked: the tiniest bit of truth made credible the greatest lies.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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He'd once known a man who said that life hinged on the moment, that everything changed in the blink of an eye. Tesseract knew the…
— Derek Landy
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There was no discussion between them; it was as if the bugs had worked out this whole scenario long ago. Temp put on a burst…
— Suzanne Collins
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The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into…
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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That should have been my strategy! By the time I’ve worked through the emotions of surprise, admiration, anger, jealousy, and frustration, I’m watching that reddish…
— Suzanne Collins
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Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aid being ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the…
— Jodi Picoult
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The best and most innovative products don't always win...(it's an) aesthetic flaw in how the universe worked
— Walter Isaacson
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He worked with her as she was and not as he wanted her to be.
— Colin Clark
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I think Bob appreciated my outfit. He made me buy the more expensive pendant. You might think that was to my disadvantage, but I accept…
— Holly Black
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If I worked at White Globe Consulting, I wouldn't be able to do my job. I would spend all day texting the other people in…
— Sophie Kinsella
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Whenever you feel ‘short’ or in ‘need’ of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for…
— Robert Kiyosaki
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[Y]ou weren't born with a talent for witchcraft: it didn't come easily; you worked hard at it because you wanted it. You forced the world…
— Terry Pratchett
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The rule of the Morrell family was over, and Richard owned a used-car lot and Monica worked at a nail salon, until one day she…
— Rachel Caine
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The last few weeks, it was as if someone had taken his life to pieces and let him see the way it worked.
— Jenny Downham
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She wasn't feeling nothing. She was feeling too much. She was blocking it all out. That was a survival skill, and her still-beating heart was…
— Rachel Vincent
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