Wouldn Quotes
394 quotes by 298 authors
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Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human…
— Graham Greene
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If your memory was OK you could descend upon on a bookshop – a big enough one so that the staff wouldn’t hassle a browser…
— Francis Spufford
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I don’t know what I’m looking for.†“What not?†“Because … because … I think it might be because if I knew I wouldn’t be…
— Douglas Adams
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It’s okay is a cosmic truth…It’s okay. If there were nothing here for us to learn, we wouldn’t bother to pay the fare.
— Richard Bach
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My interest is to point out to you that you can walk, and please throw away all those crutches. If you are really handicapped, I…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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Then he asked if I didn’t like things changing. And I said I wouldn’t mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which…
— Mark Haddon
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Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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"The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and…
— Humphrey Bogart
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You stayed around your children as long as you could, inhaling the ambient gold shavings of their childhood, and at the last minute you tried…
— Meg Wolitzer
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…though I wouldn’t have admitted it, even to myself, I didn’t want God aboard. He was too heavy. I wanted Him approving from a considerable…
— Sheldon Vanauken
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I’m just thinking that would be pleasant. To be reading, say, out of a book, and you to come up and touch me – my…
— Jamie O'Neill
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If love is a play, this play, as old as the world, fiasco or not, it is, all in all, the least bad thing that…
— Alfred de Musset
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If I were really asked to define myself, I wouldn’t start with race; I wouldn’t start with blackness; I wouldn’t start with gender; I wouldn’t…
— Bell Hooks
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God never promised that we wouldn’t have challenges. In fact, He said just the opposite. His word says, ‘Be truly glad!...these trials are only to…
— Joel Osteen
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On the three pigs he and his wife own: "We acquired the pigs last year. My wife was born on a pig farm and has…
— John Mortimer
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She had willed her heart to stay small and contained, but it wouldn’t be. Oh, well.
— Ann Brashares
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When you are young, you think that the old lament the deterioration of life because this makes it easier for them to die without regret.…
— Julian Barnes
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I love new clothes. If everyone could just wear new clothes everyday, I reckon depression wouldn’t exist anymore.
— Sophie Kinsella
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It’s funny—when people call you “shy,†they usually smile. Like it’s cute, some funny little habit you’ll grow out of when you’re older, like the…
— Claudia Gray
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But Laila has decided that she will not be crippled by resentment. Mariam wouldn’t want it that way. ‘What’s the sense?’ she would say with…
— Khaled Hosseini
Who Wrote These Wouldn Quotes
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