"She wondered if she was doomed to be……" — David Nicholls
"She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things."
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151 Quotes by David Nicholls
David Nicholls has 151 quotes on this site.
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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and…
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Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the…
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be…
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed…
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious…
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more…
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Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed…
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And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into…
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I don't even have voice mail or answering machines anymore. I hate the phone, and I don't want to call…
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Perhaps I am doomed to retrace my steps under the illusion that I am exploring, doomed to try and learn…
— Andre Breton
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being…
— Dan Brown
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Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed…
— Julie Burchill
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Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge, and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.
— William Ellery Channing
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Without authority there is no liberty. Freedom is doomed to destruction at every turn, unless there is a recognized right…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in…
— Albert Einstein
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They are a doomed race. Wars, smallpox, gross immorality, a change from old ways to new ways their fate is…
— George Amos Dorsey
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If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed.
— Ludwig von Mises
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Every memorable act in the history of the world is a triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without…
— Og Mandino
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For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person,…
— Saint Augustine
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Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own…
— Washington Irving
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