Quotes

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536 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

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If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.

— Lewis Caroll
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The bird, the pin, the song, the berries, the watch, the cracker, the dress that burst into flames. I am the mockingjay. The one that survived despite the Capitol's plans. The symbol of the rebellion.

— Suzanne Collins
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I hope you find someone you can't live without.I really do. And I hope you never have to know what it's like to have to try and live without them.

— Kiera Cass
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Demons run when a good man goes to warNight will fall and drown the sunWhen a good man goes to warFriendship dies and true love liesNight will fall and the dark will riseWhen a good man goes to warDemons run, but count the costThe battle's won, but the child is lost

— Steven Moffat
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Listen to them, the children of the night. What music they make!

— Bram Stoker
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We are all born mad. Some remain so.

— Samuel Beckett
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Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

— Robert Frost
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It's so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it's taking forever to come. Then it happens and it's over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.

— Lauren Oliver
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A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

— Albert Einstein
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The past beats inside me like a second heart.

— John Banville
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if you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn't have fallen for the second.

— Johnny Depp
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In the end that was the choice you made, and it doesn't matter how hard it was to make it. It matters that you did.

— Cassandra Clare
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The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it.

— Woody Allen
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Today is the sort of day where the sun only comes up to humiliate you.

— Chuck Palahniuk
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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

— Edith Sitwell
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World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.