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“Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.”

Persons Literature Example Discipline Circumstances Thousand Shapes Impulse

Author:James Russell Lowell

“But doctors talk about cells as if they had such unlimited importance all by themselves. As if they didn't really belong to the person that has them." Teddy brushed back his hair from his forehead with one hand. "I grew my own body," he said. "Nobody else did it for me. So if I grew it, I must have known how to grow it. Unconsciously, at least. I may have lost the conscious knowledge of how to grow it sometime in the last few hundred thousand years, but the knowledge is still there, because—obviously—I've used it.”

Ifs Years May Persons Said Stills Body Hands Lasts Used Lost Grows My Own Known Hair Grew Thousand Conscious Hundred Doctors Importance Cells Thousand Years Unlimited Foreheads Teddy

Author:J. D. Salinger

“and yet she was leaving the world as a woman who had love and been loved back. she was leaving it as a friend, a companion, a guardian. a mother. a person of consequence at last.”

World Persons Lasts Mother Thousand Consequence Leaving Companion Guardian Splendid

Book:A Thousand Splendid Suns

Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns

“A person's got to think, otherwise that person's no better than a trained seal balancing a ball on his nose. If only that seal could think, he'd know he was making a thousand children laugh.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Children Persons Inspiring Laughing Thousand Balls Noses Seals

Book:Summer of my German soldier

Source: Summer of my German soldier

“... It's perfect! Locke would appreciate it." "Bug," Calo said, "Locke is our brother and our love for him knows no bounds. But the four most fatal words in the Therin language are 'Locke would appreciate it.'" "Rivalled only by 'Locke taught me a new trick,'" added Galo. "The only person who gets away with Locke Lamora games ..." "... is Locke ..." "... because we think the gods are saving him up for a really big death. Something with knives and hot irons ..." "... and fifty thousand cheering spectators.”

Thinking Knows Persons Said Bigs Games Language Perfect Four Taught Brother Thousand Appreciate Hot Bounds Tricks Saving Fifty Iron Get Away Cheer Knives Our Love Bugs Spectators Locke Lamora

Author:Scott Lynch

“A person walks into a room and says hello, and your life takes a course for which you are not prepared. It's a tiny moment (almost-but not quite-unremarkable), the beginning of a hundred thousand tiny moments and some larger ones.”

Persons Moments Courses Walks Rooms Thousand Hundred Prepared Tiny Hello

Book:Eden Close: a novel

Source: Eden Close: a novel

“What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll never take your eyes off her again?”

People Knows Firsts Looks Persons Eye Past Walks Thousand Thirty Glances First Person

Book:Second Glance

Source: Second Glance

“Before and after... I heard a thousand times that a boy, or a man, can't make you happy, that you have to be happy on your own before you can be happy with another person. All I can say is, I wish it were true.”

Men Persons I Can Wish Boys Heard Thousand Make You Happy Before And After

Book:Prep: a novel

Source: Prep: a novel

“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost? Maybe you lost more maybe less, then thousand different things that come from your memory or imagination - and you do not know which is which, which was true, which is false.”

Knows Persons Different Lost Loses Imagination Memories Wonder Thousand Different Things Saddest Someone You Love

Book:The Kitchen God's Wife

Source: The Kitchen God's Wife

“I feel most colored when I am thrown against a sharp white background........Beside the waters of the Hudson" I feel my race. Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept, but through it all, I remain myself. When covered by the waters, I am; and the ebb but reveals me again." How It Feels to Be Colored Me”

Feels Persons Water Dark White Race Rocks Thousand Backgrounds Thrown Covered

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“And since we don’t just forget things because they don’t matter but also forget things because they matter too much because each of us remembers and forgets in a pattern whose labyrinthine windings are an identification mark no less distinctive than a fingerprintit’s no wonder that the shards of reality one person will cherish as a biography can seem to someone else who, say, happened to have eaten some ten thousand dinners at the very same kitchen table, to be a willful excursion into mythomania”

Source: American Pastoral

“A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.”

Ifs Knows Firsts Heart Persons Remember Romance Night Courses Wish Imagination Missing Return Lovers Thousand Married Filled Stranger Existentialism Dozen Constructs Fragments Rapture

Author:Andrew Sean Greer

“Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more if you ever met them? But you'll never meet them.”

People Ifs World Needs Feels Persons Form Love Is Mets Thousand Ten Prejudice Feel Good Need You Convenient Make You Feel Good

Author:Charles Bukowski

“In fact, there is perhaps only one human being in a thousand who is passionately interested in his job for the job's sake. The difference is that if that one person in a thousand is a man, we say, simply, that he is passionately keen on his job; if she is a woman, we say she is a freak.”

Ifs Men Humans Persons Facts Jobs Differences Work Human Beings Careers Thousand Sake Freak Misogyny Stereotype Norm That One Person Inspirational Career

Author:Dorothy L. Sayers

“Last year in the U.S. alone more than nine hundred thousand people were reported missing and not found... That's out of three hundred million, total population. That breaks down to about one person in three hundred and twenty-five vanishing. Every year.... Maybe it's a coincidence, but it's almost the same loss ratio experienced by herd animals on the African savannah to large predators.”