Quotes about many

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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

“As many times as I told her she was beautiful, I know that she never believed me. As many times as I said it didn’t matter, I knew that to her it did.”

“But aren't many gardens beautiful because they are imperfect?… aren't the strange, new flowers that arise by mistake or misadventure as pleasing as the well-tended and planned?”

“Trevor possessed many of the qualities of a vampire without actually being one. He constantly preyed on me, was deeply charismatic, and tried to suck the life out of me.”

“There are many kinds of delusion.”

“One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.”

“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think”

“Many are the women who can take their clothes off seductively, but women who can charm as they dress?”

“You are the grim, goal-oriented ones who will not believe that the joy is in the journey rather than the destination no matter how many times it has been proven to you.”

“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.”

“So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.”

“How many people ask you to come share their life?”

“Only love can break a heart into so many pieces.
-Risika(In The Forest Of The Night)”

“It's a strange paradox that a man gifted with too many talents can fritter them all away without developing a single one to its full.”

“No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose.”

“He was the only boy I'd found worth dating in God knows how many schools. I mean, ever since he'd been bitten by a werwulf he'd been rock-steady. The best thing about this totally effed-up situation.”

“When the Viennese government compiled a Catalogue of Forbidden Books in 1765, so many Austrians used it as a reading guide that the Hapsburg censors were forced to include the Catalogue itself as a forbidden book.”

“The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don’t like that statement, but few can argue with it.”

“Many eyes go through the meadow, but few see the flowers in it”

“The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many shadows that the day creates more illusion than all the veiled truth of the night.”

“How many beginnings before you see the lies in your excitement?”

“He had the unlucky capacity many men have of seeing and believing in the possibility of goodness and truth, but of seeing the evil and falsehood of life too clearly to take any serious part in it.”

“The magic of sex is it's acquisition without the burden of possession. No matter how many women you take home, there's never a storage problem.”

“Yes, he is a man, so genetically he's engineered to be dense about many things, but he's not stupid.”

“Harry Dresden: Many things are not as they seem: The worst things in life never are.”

“I could have been a great many things.”

“Not all who hesitate are lost. The psyche has many secrets in reserve. And these are not disclosed unless required.”

“Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!”

“Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.”

“That was the thing. You just never knew. Forever was so many different things. It was always changing, it was what everything was really all about.”

“It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more.”

“He has many things I haven’t got,” said Jace. “Like nearsightedness, bad posture, and an appalling lack of coordination.”
-Jace about Simon, pg. 331-”

“How do most people live without any thought? There are many people in the world,--you must have noticed them in the street,--how do they live? How do they get strength to put on their clothes in the morning?”

“Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive.”

“How many times… have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.”

“But as the Roman playwright Terence once wrote, From many a bad beginning great friendships have formed”

“Donner: Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.”

“Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death”

“There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.”

“Many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. [But]that does not lessen their beauty…”

“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”

“Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.”

“I remember a friend many years ago who had taped a sign to his refrigerator: There's a dream dreaming us. If you try to think about what that means it makes your mind silly, but that silliness is good.”

“[Will Herondale] would say he knew a warlock who was a better friend, and more worth trusting, than many a nephilim warrior.”

“Many of the good things would never have happened if the bad events hadn't happened first.”

“I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane.
Even if the dogs are small.”

“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”

“So many dreams, so many disappointments, so many promises. And in the end, they all just vanish.”

“Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.”

“Many people think that happiness comes from having more power or more money.”

“the area dividing the brain and the soul
is affected in many ways by
experience –
some lose all mind and become soul:
insane.
some lose all soul and become mind:
intellectual.
some lose both and become:
accepted.”

“Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.”

“There are so many worse things than death. Not to be loved or not to be able to love: that is worse.”

“So how many women have you visited in their dreams? (Geary)
Is this one of those questions that if I don’t answer it correctly, you get angry at me? (Arik)”

“Too many people confuse being serious with being solemn.”

“… a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.”

“There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.”

“A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.”

“Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic….”

“No state, no government exists. What does in fact exist is a man, or a few men, in power over many men.”

“There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.”

“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life.”

“Asking an eight-year-old girl if something is a little over-the-top is like asking a Texan if there are too many jalapenos in the salsa. The answer is always no." -Liberty Jones”

“Empathy lies at the heart of Gatsby, like so many other great novels — the biggest sin is to be blind to others' problems and pains. Not seeing them means denying their existence.”

“You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.”

“I wonder how many people I have looked at all my life and never really seen.”

“They keep saying that sea levels are rising an all this. It's nowt to do with the icebergs melting, it's because there's too many fish in it. Get rid of some of the fish and the water will drop. Simple. Basic science.”

“Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.”

“To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.”

“Many a good argument is ruined by some fool who knows what he is talking about.”

“Chickens can do many things, but they cannot make sophisticated deals with humans.”

“How many have to die before we will give up these dangerous toys?”

“He was well aware that of the two of three thousand times he had made love (how many times had he made love in his life?) only two or three were really essential and unforgettable. The rest were mere echoes, imitations, repetitions, or reminiscences.”

“Many of the insights of the saint stem from his experience as a sinner.”

“There’s as many atoms in a single molecule of your DNA as there are stars in the typical galaxy. We are, each of us, a little universe.”

“Hair is gray and the firers are burning. So many dreams on the shelf. You say I wanted you to be proud of me. I always wanted that myself.”

“Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”

“If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many books.”

“Many women have earned titles, Your Grace. It doesn't seem to have been a factor in whether or not they actually received them.”

“If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.”

“Feminism has never been about getting a job for one woman. It's about making life more fair for women everywhere. It's not about a piece of the existing pie; there are too many of us for that. It's about baking a new pie.”

“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”

“I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes.”

“Antagonism in my family comes wrapped in layers of code, sideways feints, full deniability. I believe the same can be said of many families.”

“We live in a world with so many dangers that we have to be careful whom we trust.”

“A new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”

“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?”

“Would you not like to try all sorts of lives — one is so very small — but that is the satisfaction of writing — one can impersonate so many people.”

“… which causes me to wonder, my own purpose on so many days as humble as the spider's, what is beautiful that I make? What is elegant? What feeds the world?”

“When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused…nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination.”

“The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man.”

“We think we have many desires, but in fact we have only one. What is it?” “To live,” said Camilla. “To live forever”

“How many people have never raised their hand before?”

“I think that this scene is upsetting because it calls us beyond fact into the vast world of imagination, and imagination is a word of many dimensions.”

“Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were the ones which most frequently grew into deeds”

“Give all the power to the many, they will oppress the few. Give all the power to the few, they will oppress the many.”

“Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.”

“Stealing from one author is plagiarism; from many authors, research.”

“I do not know everything; still many things I understand.”