Quotes about course
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“The mystery of death, the riddle of how you could speak to someone and see them every day and then never again, was so impossible to fathom that of course we kept trying to figure it out, even when we were unconscious.”

Francine Prose (1947) American writer

Source: Goldengrove

Death

“Wise words are like arrows flung at your forehead. What do you do? Why, you duck of course.”

Steven Erikson book House of Chains

Source: House of Chains (2002)

“You, of course, are a rose--
But were always a rose.”

Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet

Source: You Come Too

“They're still looking at him…. At Will…"
"Of course they are…. Look at him. The face of a bad angel and eyes like the night sky in Hell.”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Angel

Source: Clockwork Angel

Angels, Hell, Night

“Desire sets our compass, but real life steers our course.”

Mitch Albom (1958) American author

The First Phone Call from Heaven

Life

“it is nice that nobody writes as they talk and that the printed language is different from the spoken otherwise you could not lose yourself in books and of course you do you completely do.”

Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) American art collector and experimental writer of novels, poetry and plays

Books

“It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”

Jerome K. Jerome (1859–1927) English humorist

Idler Magazine, Volume 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=vMYaAAAAYAAJ&q=exceptionally+good+liar#search_anchor|The

Truth

“Good grief, Molly. He doesn't scare you?"
"Of course not."
"But he's…"
"He's sweet," Molly insisted.
Dare snorted. "He's still listening.”

Lori Foster (1958) American writer

Source: When You Dare

“The power of the dead is that we think they see us all the time. The dead have a presence. Is there a level of energy composed solely of the dead? They are also in the ground, of course, asleep and crumbling. Perhaps we are what they dream.”

Don DeLillo book White Noise

Source: White Noise (1984)

Dreams, Thinking, Time, Dead

“Of course he loves me. I’m his sister.”
“Blood isn’t love,” said Magnus, and his voice was bitter.”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Love, Sister

“Of course she had some pathetic illusions about herself or she would not be able to go on living.”

Jean Rhys (1890–1979) novelist from Dominica

Source: After Leaving Mr. Mackenzie

““This short watch that is about to come, or rather these two short watches--why are they called dog watches? Where, heu, heu, is the canine connection?'
Why,' said Stephen, 'it is because they are curtailed of course.””

Patrick O'Brian book Post Captain

Source: Post Captain (1972)

Dogs

“All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.”

James Thurber (1894–1961) American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright

"The Crow and the Scarecrow", The New Yorker (date unknown); Further Fables for Our Time (1956). This is derived from Oscar Wilde's statement "All men kill the thing they love..."
From Fables for Our Time and Further Fables for Our Time

Men, Hate

“Of course it's the same old story. Truth usually is the same old story.”

Margaret Thatcher (1925–2013) British stateswoman and politician

Truth

“If you don't believe what I'm telling you, then ask yourself this: would any decent, kind-hearted individual become a writer? Of course not.”

Brandon Sanderson Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Source: Alcatraz Versus the Evil Librarians

Heart

“Maggie threw her head back and laughed. 'So you're going to try… what? Birds of a Feather?' she quested.

'Of course not,' Kat said. 'Everyone knows the French government banned the importation of peacocks in 1987.”

Ally Carter (1974) American writer

Source: Uncommon Criminals

Bird

“People usually asked her if she had a belly button. Of course she had a belly button. She couldn't explain how. She didn't really want to know.”

Rick Riordan The Mark of Athena

Source: The Mark of Athena

People

“If you in the morning
Throw minutes away,
You can't pick them up
In the course of a day.
You may hurry and scurry,
And flurry and worry,
You've lost them forever,
Forever and aye.”

Anna Sewell book Black Beauty

Source: Black Beauty

“You are so beautiful, he mouthed. But of course she couldn’t see his lips. Guess he was going to have to show her.”

Jessica Bird (1969) U.S. novelist

Source: Lover Mine

Beauty

“The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.”

Jasper Fforde (1961) British novelist

Source: Shades of Grey

Hope

“If you don't explain it all to me, I might strangle somebody." Of course, Raphael might like that…”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“Ammu loved her children (of course), but their wide-eyed vulnerability and their willingness to love people who didn't really love them exasperated her and sometimes made her want to hurt them-- just as an education, a precaution.”

Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things

Source: The God of Small Things

Love, Children, People, Education

“It meant nothing to him any longer, only a faint tinge of sadness--and somewhere within him, a drop of pain moving briefly and vanishing, like a raindrop on the glass of a window, its course in the shape of a question mark.”

Ayn Rand book Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

Pain, Sadness, Question

“I most certainly can deny it. Of course, if I did, I'd be lying." Mairelon”

Patricia C. Wrede (1953) author

Source: Magician's Ward

Lying

“It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. It took one afternoon on the golf course.”

Hank Aaron (1934) Retired American baseball player

Source: In response to Jack Nicklaus' query, "What kind of golfer are you?"; as quoted in "Aaron Has Career in Day" by the Associated Press, in The Atlanta Constitution (February 23, 1971)

Ref: en.wikiquote.org - Hank Aaron / Quotes

“the number 108 is held to be the most auspicious, a perfect three-digit multiple of three, its components adding up to 9, which is three threes. And 3, of course, is the number representing supreme balance.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

Source: Eat, Pray, Love

Perfection

“Robbie turned to the house again. "Got a flashlight?"
"Of course not." I smirked. "That would make me too well prepared, wouldn't it?”

Cate Tiernan (1961) American novelist

Source: Sweep: Volume 1

Housing

“Number eight, the silver one, belongs to Artemis. She vowed to be a maiden forever. So of course, no kids. The cabin is, you know, honorary. If she didn't have one, she'd be mad.”

Rick Riordan book The Lightning Thief

Source: The Lightning Thief

Madness

“Dig deep into its communitarian ethos and it reads more like an America that might have been, an America fervently devoted to the quaint goals of working together and getting along. Of course, this America does exist. It's called Canada.”

Sarah Vowell The Wordy Shipmates

Source: The Wordy Shipmates

Reading

“He swallowed. “Have you no modesty?” Never in his life had he encountered a female so quick to be naked. Of course, he’d never in his life encountered a female who should so utterly be naked at any chance.”

Kresley Cole book The Warlord Wants Forever

Source: The Warlord Wants Forever

Life, Chance

“I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Love, Chance

“There’s a big difference between death threats and love letters–even if the person writing the death threats still claims to actually love you. Of course, considering I once tried to kill someone I loved, maybe I had no right to judge.”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

Love, Death, Personality

“But, of course, it isn't really Good-bye, because the Forest will always be there… and anybody who is Friendly with Bears can find it.”

A.A. Milne book The House at Pooh Corner

Source: The House at Pooh Corner

“You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.”

Mary Downing Hahn (1937) American children's writer

Source: The Dead Man in Indian Creek

Thinking, Decision

“The essence of childhood, of course, is play, which my friends and I did endlessly on streets that we reluctantly shared with traffic.”

Bill Cosby (1937) American actor, comedian, author, producer, musician, activist

Childhood

“Look forward, not back. Correct your course and go on. You cannot undo yesterday's journey.”

Robin Hobb book Ship of Magic

Source: Ship of Magic

“Passivity may be the easy course, but it is hardly the honorable one.”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

“Dimitri: "They weren't supposed to let you in."Rose: "Yeah. Well, I kind of found a work-around."Dimitri: "Of course you did."- Dimitri Belikov and Rose Hathaway (Spirit Bound)”

Richelle Mead book Spirit Bound

Source: Spirit Bound

“I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.”

Jonathan Coe book The Rain Before It Falls

Source: The Rain Before It Falls

Happiness

“But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons”

Dave Eggers book A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Happiness, Children, Color

“Few individuals significantly alter the course of history. Fewer still modify the map of the world. Hardly anyone can be credited with creating a nation-state. Mohammad Ali Jinnah did all three.”

Stanley Wolpert (1927–2019) American indologist

Source: Jinnah of Pakistan

World, History

“Clarabelle laughed like she'd just heard the funniest thing ever. "Of course you HOPE you won't die, Valkyrie! Who would HOPE to die? That's just SILLY! But you probably WILL die, that's what I'm saying. Don't you think so?”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: The Faceless Ones

Hope, Thinking

“Of course there must be lots of Magic in the world, but people don't know what it is like or how to make it.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett The Secret Garden

Source: The Secret Garden

People, World

“Of course it's not okay with me, I'm a teenage boy. As far as I'm concerned, this is the worst thing that's happenedd since I found out why Magnus was banned from Peru" - Jace”

Cassandra Clare The City of Lost Souls

Source: City of Lost Souls

Boy

“Of course there’s destiny, but destiny doesn’t push you where you don’t want to go. You’re the ones who choose. Destiny is up to you.”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

Source: One

“It all comes down, as it must, to the desires of individual men. Oh, and women too of course, bless their empty little heads.”

Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow

Source: Gravity's Rainbow

Women, Men

“With schools turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word "intellectual," of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.”

Ray Bradbury book Fahrenheit 451

Source: Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

School, Imagination

“Of course I'm ambitious. What's wrong with that? Otherwise you sleep all day.”

Ringo Starr (1940) British musician, former member of the Beatles

Sleep

“You'll often hear the phrase "science doesn't know everything." Well, of course it doesn't know everything. But just because science doesn't know everything doesn't mean that it knows nothing.”

Stephen Fry (1957) English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist

Science

“In an incredulous tone, he said, "You don't know the meaning of virtue!"
"Of course I do-it means your thong must be white." (Sabine)”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Kiss of a Demon King

“There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are Why are people born? Why do they die? Why do they want to spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?”

Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy

Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Life, People, Problem, Time

“I remember her telling me once that rabbits were the gnomes in attendance to the Fairy Queen and that the stars were God's daisy chain. Perfect rot, of course.”

P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975) English author

God, Star, Perfection

“You’re different,” he said, touching my face.
Of course I was. The man I loved had killed for me. A lot of things became inconsequential after a sacrifice like that.”

Sylvia Day (1973) American writer

Source: Entwined with You

Love

“I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

War, Peace, Reading, Speed

“I have people in my life, of course. Some write; some don't. Some read; some don't. Some stare vacantly into space when I talk the geeky talk and walk the geeky walk, but they make killer chocolate chip pancakes and so all is forgiven.”

Rob Thurman (1950) American writer

Life, People, Reading

“course.” “One moment, sir.”

Stuart Woods (1938) American novelist

Scandalous Behavior

“I think that the most important thing a woman can have - next to talent, of course - is her hairdresser.”

Joan Crawford (1904–1977) American actress

Interview, Hollywood Reporter (1942)

Thinking

“You're not going to die?"
"Not right this minute." And of course, saying something like that usually resulted in immediate dying. I braced myself for a stray meteorite falling through the roof to crush my skull.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Burns

“If something is wrong, it matters not if a thousand men are for it; you must still oppose it. If something is just, no amount of popular outcry should stay you from your course.”

Terry Goodkind book Naked Empire

Source: Naked Empire

Men

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”

Neal Stephenson book Snow Crash

Source: Snow Crash

Sincerity

“I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.”

Graham Greene book The End of the Affair

Source: The End of the Affair

Love, Jealousy

“Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.”

Jodi Picoult (1966) Author

Source: Vanishing Acts

Decision

“After I shut the door behind me, I heard Darryl say "of course eating him would work too.”

Patricia Briggs book Blood Bound

Source: Blood Bound

“He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Fate, Soul