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We know who is benevolent, by quite other means than the amount of subscriptions to soup-societies. It is only low merits that canbe enumerated. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Civilizations die from philosophical calm, irony, and a sense of fair play quite as surely as they die of debauchery. — Joseph Wood Krutch

When my Yankee career is over I'll play anywhere, but I'm positive that I'll never find a team quite like the Yankees. — Bernie Williams

Because the reality of death has not yet penetrated awareness, survivors can appear to be quite accepting of the loss. — Joan Didion

His rope, his legs, his luck. Either all would hold or all would break, quite possibly at the same time. — Stephen King

You make a very handsome dead eel, my husband,"
"For a boiled mollusk, you wear black quite well, my wife, — Grace Draven

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it. — Lewis Carroll

The most beautiful sunset is when you have it with your beloved one and the most beautiful sunrise is quite the same. — Galina Nelson

People say it's not ambitious, but it is actually quite ambitious wanting to help people. — Prince William

If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. — Kingman Brewster Jr.

I can read and speak Hindi quite well now and that's quite an achievement considering I didn't know the language at all when I came down here. — Katrina Kaif

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage. — Charlotte Church

It was quite obvious what she was to me, it was so clear why I always wanted her near. She was simply the air I breathed. As — Brittainy C. Cherry

My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall. — Daniel Radcliffe

No one is ever quite as strong or as weak as you'd think. — Deb Caletti

A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best. — Alain Prost

That happens quite a lot in Hot Chip - you can let go of something that was originally essential to the creation of a song. — Alexis Taylor

I think the music I've created is quite odd, and people are going to start talking about that. — Ed Sheeran

Luckily there were no venomous snakes around Hoosick, N.Y., so I amassed quite a collection of milk snakes, garters, ribbons and ring-necked snakes. — Romulus Whitaker

I don't know anything that's quite so dead as a man who's fallen three or four thousand feet off the edge of a cloud. — George Horace Lorimer

I could never quite figure out if I needed to rescue Dara or be rescued from her. — Paula Garner

Listening back to your speaking voice for the first time, unless you're James Earl Jones, it's a quite distressing process for most people. — Philip Selway

The urge to draw must be quite deep within us, because children love to do it. — David Hockney

A man must be quite intelligent in order to accept that a woman is his intellectual equal. — Dora Musielak

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating. — Oscar Wilde

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there. — Colin Greenwood

I am quite aware that a distinction must be drawn between the American government and the American people. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

My old kindergarten behaviors, so appalling when I was a kindergartner myself, are apparently quite acceptable in a teacher. — Karen Joy Fowler

A lot of people may not know this but I'm quite famous. — Sam Malone

I got into theatre very early, so yes I was surrounded by gay people quite early and frequently. — Judith Light

She has been crying here and going on - she has quite upset me. — Henry James

I never think, 'Where am I going to be in a year's time?' That seems to be a sure way of missing the fact that you might be quite happy now. — Jo Brand

I didn't answer, but, please - nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are quite baffling. — Rick Riordan

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older - until I drop dead of beauty. — Rufus Wainwright

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book. — Kate DiCamillo

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilised. — Ariel Durant

Being in the audience actually looks like quite a lot of fun. — Paul McCartney

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman. — W. Somerset Maugham

What they say about footballers being ignorant is rubbish. I spoke to a couple yesterday and they are quite intelligent. — Raquel Welch

Something is missing in our culture. We can't quite celebrate the scientific literary tradition. — Ian McEwan

It was quite impossible, he found, to ask to be delivered from temptation when your heart's desire was to be tempted unto seventy times seven. — Thomas Hardy

Adventures, once they were over, were things that had to stay inside one
that no one else could quite understand. — Eva Ibbotson

The man gave Dodger a cursory glance that had quite a lot of curse in it. — Terry Pratchett

Quite simply, when we deny our children nature, we deny them beauty. — Richard Louv

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks. — Tsunetomo Yamamoto

During Christmas time, on German television they show films with three or four episodes, and I quite like the feeling of waiting for the next episode. — Volker Bertelmann

Oh, you are mad!" she exclaimed, quite out of patience.
"Possibly. But I like my madness. — Rafael Sabatini

I know now, just quite how
My life and love might still go on
In your heart, in your mind
I'll stay with you for all of time. — The Calling

After putting out quite a few albums, there's a feeling of why make another? I was trying to make something that was an album experience. — Kieran Hebden

There's nothing quite like a real ... train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute — Anita Diament

The degree of our spiritual strength will be in direct proportion to the time we spend in God's Word. — Elizabeth George

It was all quite natural, human beings are created in order to torment one another. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Chapter One: It was quite fitting that the entire town was sleeping when the dream carrier was born ... — Markus Zusak

I've known for quite a while that I was a funny girl. — Niecy Nash

Life took on quite a special meaning in this early morning solitude. — Henning Mankell

With all the opportunities I had, I could have done more. And if I'd done more, I could have been quite remarkable. — Katharine Hepburn

I say this quite deliberately, this is the finest Shakespearean performance I've seen. — Donald Wolfit

The bad guys probably get the better lines, don't they? And they wear less spandex. That would be quite good. — David Tennant

Lovely, quite girl, no trouble, no trouble at all. You wouldn't even know she was in the house. That is often the yarn twisted around women's wrists. — Sue Monk Kidd

It was like the color of his eyes, she supposed - not quite one shade or another, and utterly unlike anyone else's. — Anna Godbersen

In some cases, I quite like irritating people who need to be irritated. — Robert Smith

T Bone is genius. The way they've recorded my voice and the instrumentation to these songs is really quite extraordinary. — Betty Buckley

It's one thing to keep secrets. It's quite another to lie. — Franny Billingsley

Gideon and Gabriel," said Tessa. "They're really quite good-looking, not hideous at all. — Cassandra Clare

By today's standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal. — Hailey Giblin

I still haven't quite got used to eating live fish. — David Mitchell

I like Brando's acting ... and James Dean ... and Richard Widmark. Quite a few of 'em I like. — Elvis Presley

the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts. — Jim Butcher

Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up. — Dennis Haysbert

I get painted quite a bit as a tragic figure because of some of the stuff that's happened in my life. — Tori Amos

One worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed - but after all, we were children. — William Landay

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry. — Sharon Horgan

People who hadn't suffered a loss yet struck me as not quite grown up. — Anne Tyler

One cannot quite trust the word of potted flowers," thought the butterfly; "they have too much to do with men. — Hans Christian Andersen

Socially, I think I'm quite comfortable; I enjoy chatting to people ... but I do have my quirks. — Greg McHugh

I was quite nerdy at school. I skipped a year and won a scholarship in chemistry. — Jerry Hall

He runs to the sink to spit it out. I grin. There's nothing quite as funny as someone else's misery. — Holly Black

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world. — Charlie Brooker

What's interesting is that the way we go about finding our marriage partners today is quite different from the way it used to be in this culture. — Sheena Iyengar

I'm quite low-key - Isabel Marant is one of my favourite designers. — Sophie McShera

He was never quite at home in what we may call our post-positivist era — Jocelyn Gibb

But I think it's quite clear in my work that my orientation isn't political or doesn't come out of modern politics. — Jane Campion

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours. — Thomas Mann

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone. — Andrew Shue

We're approaching things quite differently this time, but it will still sound like Marilyn Manson. — Daisy Berkowitz

He quite liked the English. They tended to say sorry a lot, which was quite understandable given their heritage and the crimes of their ancestors. — Terry Pratchett

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing. — Simon Callow

With every project you do, you bring out a part of yourself, and it seems to be quite a good way of expanding a person. — Kate Beckinsale

Like last night I had a sequence with a gun and, to be honest, for me to be threatening with a gun and not be comical is quite hard. — Phil Collins

If you put frightening things into a picture, then they can't harm you. In fact, you end becoming quite fond of them. — Paula Rego

He was awfully good at being aristocratic. Alexia, on the other hand, was only good at being autocratic. Not quite the same thing. — Gail Carriger

Nothing was quite as unfair as a world where the right choice was the one that hurt the one person he needed to protect. — Kit Rocha

However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach. — Peter Turchi

To summarize a poem or put it into prose is quite simply to misunderstand the essence of an art. — Paul Valery

My mum and I are, in many ways, quite similar. We're both creative, gregarious, and energetic. — Hugh Jackman

If people have a passion for anything they tend to get quite good at it. — Brian Johnson

It is my last night here, and I suddenly feel quite tearful, sitting up in my usual window. — Ellen Emerson White

But Owen, he hath not a farmer's heart-/
This apple falls quite near his father's tree
- Beru — Ian Doescher

Chronic disease like a troublesome relative is something you can learn to manage but never quite escape. — Mary Tyler Moore

Her husband was a patient man, but she had noticed a glazed look on his face as she'd talked, admittedly for quite a long time, — Liane Moriarty