Worked Quotes
3192 Worked quotes by 2553 unique authors
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This is my favorite part. It starts and ends here. The pebbles shine, the plan worked, Hansel Triumphant. Lesson number one: be sneaky and have…
— Richard Siken
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...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and…
— Kelley Armstrong
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He's worked his entire life and he's never lived a single moment, I mean not a moment, in the real world.
— Katharine Hepburn
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They were not friends, Comdrade Pillai and Inspector Thomas Matthew, and they didn't trust each other. But they understood each other perfectly. They were both…
— Arundhati Roy
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Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. "Wait! Just wait," she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step…
— Eoin Colfer
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She had been sharing a house with him for a week, and he had not once flirted with her. He had worked with her, asked…
— Steig Larsson
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I worked hard to meet his eyes, even though they were the kind of pretty that’s hard to look at..
— John Green
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Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich.…
— Cheryl Strayed
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My body was a machine, plain and simple. I worked it to stay strong; I fed it to keep it running.
— Ann Aguirre
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He wanted that again, that feeling of standing with her against all odds and succeeding. He wanted it so bad, he was going to risk…
— Kim Harrison
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What? You mean to travel almost five hundred miles alone? No. I can’t let you do that. I . . . I forbid you.” It…
— Tessa Dare
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Remembering now all those farewells (fake farewells, worked-up farewells), Irena thinks: a person who messes up her goodbyes shouldn’t expect much from her re-unions.
— Milan Kundera
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You could put your confusion and upset and worries into whatever book you were reading. You could sort of set them down in there, and…
— Deb Caletti
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I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we…
— Ernest Hemingway
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It would be nice if life worked this way, stripping the dirt from our lives and sending us back out into the world clean. But…
— Veronica Roth
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In the olden days, when wishing still worked, there lived a king whose daughters were all beautiful, but the youngest daughter was so lovely that…
— Jacob Grimm
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Apes had it worked out. No ape would philosophize, "The mountain is, and is not." They would think, "The banana is. I will eat the…
— Terry Pratchett
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When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about…
— Isaac Marion
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I've never worked so hard for anything in my life as I have for you.
— Sylvia Day
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Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has…
— Thomas Sowell
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The second time my world exploded, it was also because of a word. A word that worked its way out of my throat and danced…
— Lauren Oliver
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Someone with inborn talent isn't happy. It's those who have worked hard for someone precious to them and who can be hot-blooded that are happy."…
— Masashi Kishimoto
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Girl, you better stop apologizing to me. I’m just glad you’re all right. Now, here is Master Jax’s number. You need to call him. He…
— Abbi Glines
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You always own the option of having no opinion. There is never any need to get worked up or to trouble your soul about things…
— Marcus Aurelius
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I'm afraid I'll lose myself in you, Gideon. I'm scared I'll lose the part of me I worked so hard to get back." "I'd never…
— Sylvia Day
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