Whole Life Quotes - Page 13

• I want to be free Michael, just for once in my whole life I want to be free" "You are free. You just don't know it yet

  Francine Rivers

  Want, Whole, Knows

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• Suze, your whole life," my dad went on, not without sympathy, "you've always made the right decisions. Not necessarily the easiest ones. The right ones. Don't mess that up now, when you're facing what's probably the most important decision you'll ever have to make.

  Meg Cabot

  Dad, Decision, Important

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Heaven Sent”, p.114, Pan Macmillan

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• Those eyes, they've got a history with mine. They were the first things I saw when I came to, after being hit in the skull with a baseball thrown by Patrick at Little League. They were the fortification I needed at sixteen to ride the chairlift at Sugarloaf, although I am terrified of heights. For almost my whole life, they've told me I'm doing all right, during moments when it was not in my own power to answer.

  Jodi Picoult

  Baseball, Eye, Skulls

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #2: Perfect Match, Second Glance, and My Sister's Keeper”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

  David Nicholls

  Life, Happy, Realizing

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• Funny, reely," he said. "You spend your whole life goin' to school and learnin' stuff, and they never tell you about stuff like the Bermuda Triangle and UFOs and all these Old Masters running around the inside of the Earth. Why do we have to learn boring stuff when there's all this brilliant stuff we could be learnin', that's what I want to know.

  Terry Pratchett

  Running, School, Triangles

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• She'd never in her whole life bunked school, smoked dope, or kissed a boy whose name she didn't know, and yet in the last few days, she'd done all these things.

  Jenny Downham

  School, Boys, Dope

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• It’s funny how you can live somewhere your whole life, but not really see it.

  Kami Garcia

  Whole

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• I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.

  Mario Puzo

  Children, Men, Trying

  "Fictional character: Vito Corleone". "The Godfather", www.imdb.com. 1972.

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• Yes it's difficult. Yes it's horrible. Yes it's the worst thing that has ever happen in my whole life. But I just can't give up.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Giving Up, Difficult, Horrible

  Cecelia Ahern (2004). “PS, I Love You: A Novel”, p.282, Hachette UK

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• It's hard to imagine a place like that really exists. People have been judging me my whole life.

  Kami Garcia

  People, Judging, Judge Me

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• My whole life has been one big broken promise.

  Sara Zarr

  Broken, Rejection, Promise

  Sara Zarr (2012). “How To Save A Life”, p.152, Usborne Publishing Ltd

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• Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Civilization, Giving, Spending

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.3954, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes I felt as if there were no tomorrows, that everything, my whole life, was crammed into one long day. A continuous stretch of meaningless time. Sometimes I even wished there was no tomorrow, if this was all I had to look forward to.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Long, Looks, Tomorrow

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• Probably one or two moments in your whole life you will hear a dark whispering spirit, a voice coming from the center of things. It will have blades for lips and will not stop until it speaks the one secret thing at the heart of it all. Kneeling on the floor, unable to stop shuddering, I heard it plainly. It said, You are unlovable.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Heart, Dark, Two

  Sue Monk Kidd (2003). “The Secret Life of Bees”, p.242, Penguin

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• In so many ways, he had wanted this his whole life—or at least ever since he’d survived his transition and had any sexual impulse at all. This moment was the culmination of countless daydreams and innumerable fantasies, his secret desire made manifest.

  J.R. Ward

  Secret, Desire, Transition

  J. R. Ward (2013). “Lover at Last: Number 11 in series”, p.216, Hachette UK

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• Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life

  John Flanagan

  Thinking, Waiting, Ready

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• Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sorry, People, Broken

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Tatiana, I love you. Do you hear me? I love you like I’ve never loved anyone in my whole life. Now, get up. For me, Tatia. For me, please get up and go take care of your sister. Go on. And I’ll take care of you.” His lips kissed her cheek.

  Paullina Simons

  Love You, Goes On, Care

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• I'd like to hear them be a bit more creative, though. I've heard 'you're a sieve, you stink' my whole life and you can tell it's obviously affected me.

  Ryan Miller

  Hockey, Creative, Stink

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• First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not unfrequently) to our cost when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or actions. A man's look is the work of years, it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.

  William Hazlitt

  Men, Hands, Years

  "Table Talk: Essays On Men And Manners". Book by William Hazlitt, 1821-1822.

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• Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

  Anne Lamott

  Positive, Positivity, Voice

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.28, Anchor

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• I've met so many fans of daytime television who've watched the shows with their moms and grandmas and feel like they've known the characters their whole lives. It's sad for them to have to say goodbye to their favorite soaps and characters. We don't want that to happen to the 'Days' fans.

  Alison Sweeney

  Mom, Goodbye, Grandma

  "'Biggest Loser' host, dog Winky battle pet obesity". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Some people do wait their whole lives for something, and it's only when that thing arrives that they find out that they've been waiting rather than living.

  Jane Smiley

  People, Waiting, Aging

  Jane Smiley (2017). “Moo”, p.274, Pan Macmillan

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• There is some kiss we want with your whole lives, the touch of spirit on the body. Seawater begs the pearl to break its shell. And the lily, how passionately it needs some wild darling.

  Rumi

  Love, Religious, Kissing

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• The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.

  George Santayana

  Progress, May, Evolution

  George Santayana (1970). “Three Philosophical Poets: Lucretius, Dante, and Goethe”, p.151, Library of Alexandria

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