Worked Quotes
3192 Worked quotes by 2553 unique authors
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I worked because I could control it.
— Mitch Albom
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I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they…
— Robin Wasserman
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Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked
— R. Buckminster Fuller
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Whether or not belive in Fate comes down to one thing: who you blame when something goes wrong. Do you think it's your fault -…
— Jodi Picoult
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The Scarecrow watched the Woodman while he worked and said to him "I cannot think why this wall is here nor what it is made…
— L. Frank Baum
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Sometimes I look back and I am shocked. Everyday of my life I have prepared for success, worked for it, waited for it, and you…
— Monica Ali
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If I'm not with a butch everyone just assumes I'm straight. It's like I'm passing too, against my will. I'm sick of the world thinking…
— Leslie Feinberg
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All my adult life I've felt drawn to ask long-married couples how they were able to stay together. All of them said the same thing:…
— Randy Pausch
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There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build. Coach Graham…
— Randy Pausch
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Eve: "Was that like a cookie?" Roarke: "Hmmm?" Eve: "You know, have a cookie. You'll feel better. Were you making me feel better?" Roarke: "I…
— Nora Roberts
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An Unbreakable Vow?" said Ron, looking stunned. "Nah, he can’t have.... Are you sure?" "Yes I’m sure," said Harry. "Why, what does it mean?" "Well,…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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Food and fire, protection and companionship, were some of the things he received from the god. In return, he guarded the god's property, defended his…
— Jack London
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Probably the last man who knew how it worked had been tortured to death years before. Or as soon as it was installed. Killing the…
— Terry Pratchett
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Everything about it was wrong. Thats why it worked so good.
— Hubert Selby, Jr.
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I went to school in drag, in art school and my day was completely different because everybody thought I was a chick. You should see…
— Gerard Way
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There are things about ourselves that we need to get rid of; there are things we need to change. But at the same time, we…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Thousands of years ago, man lived in harmony with the rest of the natural world. Through what we would today call Telepathy, he communicated with…
— Benjamin Hoff
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I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
— Clive Barker
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So that plan worked out well.' Skulduggery, your entire plan consisted of, and I quote, "Let's get up close and then see what happens."' All…
— Derek Landy
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Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
— Jodi Picoult
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But these last months had turned him around and now Gen saw there could be as much virtue in letting go of what you knew…
— Ann Patchett
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And then there were cats, thought Dog. He'd surprised the huge ginger cat from next door and had attempted to reduce it to cowering jelly…
— Terry Pratchett
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Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. “Feel that?” His throat worked…
— Cheyenne McCray
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People in any organization are always attached to the obsolete - the things that should have worked but did not, the things that once were…
— Peter Drucker
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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty rooms in the house where…
— Miranda July
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