Top 34 Recounted Quotes

#1. But the Duke of Clermont was smiling and cheerful, and he'd thrown it out there as if it were merely one more fact to be recounted. The weather is lovely. The streets are paved with cobblestone. Your tits are magnificent.

Courtney Milan

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#2. I have learned that feat is the mother of fearlessness, and the beginning of possibility. spoken by Paul Hogan and recounted.

James Orbinski

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#3. How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#4. Recently a young journalist came to interview me about what I was doing the day war broke out. During the course of the interview I recounted the deaths of my only brother, my husband's only brother, a brother in law and my four best friends. "So," she said, did the war affect you in any way?

Deborah Cavendish, Duchess Of Devonshire

Recounted Quotes #1730823
#5. Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.

Ben Yagoda

Recounted Quotes #1714363
#6. We had just heard that story recounted so many times over the years that it was easy to take the details and fold them into our own sparse memories.

Sarah Dessen

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#7. It has often been noted that the biblical stories recounted in the Quran, especially those dealing with Jesus, imply a familiarity with the traditions and narratives of the Christian faith.

Reza Aslan

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#8. Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope was clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced;

John Green

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#9. How comes it that our memories are good enough to retain even the minutest details of what has befallen us, but not to recollect how many times we have recounted to the same person?

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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#10. My mother used to wheel me about the campus when we lived in that neighborhood and, as she recounted years later, she would tell me that I would go to McGill.

Rudolph A. Marcus

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#11. The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.

Cyril Connolly

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#12. Knowing the voice of the Lord, obeying Him, and dwelling in His presence," William recounted.

Rick Joyner

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#13. Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head.

Augusto Roa Bastos

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#14. It would mean a good film, the story that you have recounted to me there - but it bears no sort of resemblance to everyday life.'
'I admit that I haven't gone into all the details, but-'
'You have gone farther - you have ignored them magnificently.

Agatha Christie

Recounted Quotes #656473
#15. For men can endure to hear others praised only so long as they can severally persuade themselves of their own ability to equal the actions recounted: when this point is passed, envy comes in and with it incredulity.

Thucydides

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#16. A person finds it distasteful to hear his life recounted with a different interpretation from his own.

Milan Kundera

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#17. a television bomb would instantly blind you with its eruption of images as its icons burned through your flesh and imprinted themselves on your bones in tiny hieroglyphs that recounted the brief history of the body's destruction.

Jeff VanderMeer

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#18. In a 1931 speech, Butler recounted a story about Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini, how he had run over a child with his car, and said, as he moved on, "It was only one life. What is one life in the affairs of the State.

Smedley D. Butler

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#19. He who, while unacquainted with these writings, nevertheless knows by the natural light that there is a God having the attributes we have recounted, and who also pursues a true way of life, is altogether blessed.

Baruch Spinoza

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#20. I think our sexuality is all yet to be recounted and that the rich male literary tradition constitutes a huge obstacle.

Elena Ferrante

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#21. I was in a book group in 1973," she recounted. "We read The Feminine Mystique one week, and the next week everyone went out and got a job. The book group never met again.

Debora L. Spar

Recounted Quotes #210886
#22. WHEN SHE RECOUNTED her dream for Percy, the ship's toilets exploded.

Rick Riordan

Recounted Quotes #307467
#23. The hour proceeded apace: Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost;

John Green

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#24. I recounted. I rechecked.
Are you going to cock?

David Levithan

Recounted Quotes #335697
#25. pleasure and more a business. Julian grew visibly excited as he recounted how he sold all his material possessions and headed for India, a land whose

Robin S. Sharma

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#26. Paul the apostle recounted that Jesus appeared to more than 500 of His followers at one time, the majority of whom were still alive and who could confirm what Paul wrote.

Josh McDowell

Recounted Quotes #375367
#27. Myths are not fiction, but history seen with a poet's eyes and recounted in a poet's terms.

Frank Herbert

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#28. This was not chance that they met twice, my mother would tell me whenever she recounted this story. It was fate.

Amy Tan

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#29. With his finger curled under his lip, his elbow on the arm of the couch, he merely studied me as I recounted the memories, and now he was eager for the tale to go on.

Anne Rice

Recounted Quotes #631163
#30. To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

James Frey

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#31. A woman's strength comes from finding solace in peace and earning respect in silence...

Virginia Alison

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#32. And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally ...

Larry Wall

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#33. I believe my arrival was most welcome, not only to the
Commander of the Fleet but almost to every individual in it.

Horatio Nelson

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#34. We should never discourage young people from dreaming dreams.

Lenny Wilkens

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