https://atomicquote.com/author/deanna-raybourn/quote/the-man-whirled-his-hands-still-gripping-the-animals-skin-his-face-perfectly-illuminated-by-the-fire-he-was-half-in-shadow-and-the-shadow-revealed-him-slowly-his-left-eye-was-covered-by-a-bla 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/i-wright/quote/the-love-goddess-gestured-to-the-fish-of-the-lake-below-her-and-they-gleefully-gave-up-their-scales-to-clothe-her-in-a-glimmering-gown-the-very-ends-of-her-toes-dangled-like-cherries-over-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/neil-m-hanson/quote/we-all-wrap-ourselves-in-the-mythology-we-want-other-people-to-see-us-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terry-pratchett/quote/he-thought-of-the-deep-crevasses-and-windy-caves-of-underlay-and-the-stories-of-the-creatures-that-dwelt-there-of-course-he-didnt-believe-in-them-hed-told-them-because-the-handing-on-of-an-or 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/josh-strnad/quote/he-shook-his-head-again-im-afraid-i-dont-feel-much-of-anything-these-days-especially-not-hope-i-have-no-time-or-energy-to-waste-on-false-wishes-and-dreams-that-wont-come-truehope-isnt-about-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/katerina-kostaki/quote/neleusthe-son-of-poseidona-birth-that-came-from-the-mate-of-a-god-and-a-mortal-womannot-plain-at-allso-it-was-when-the-gods-love-mate-as-humans-with-humansfrom-such-a-union-two-children-were- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bulfinch/quote/he-saw-her-eyes-bright-as-stars-he-saw-her-lips-and-was-not-satisfied-with-only-seeing-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jesmyn-ward/quote/in-every-one-of-the-greeks-mythology-tales-there-is-this-a-man-chasing-a-woman-or-a-woman-chasing-a-man-there-is-never-a-meeting-in-the-middle 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dean-f-wilson/quote/i-consider-fantasy-the-heir-of-mythology-addressing-a-real-human-need-to-seek-out-answers-to-lifes-many-mysteries-it-is-a-genre-that-can-tell-an-entertaining-and-enthralling-story-on-the-surf 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jessica-florence/quote/everyone-thinks-of-anubis-as-this-super-jacked-up-jackal-i-find-that-amusing-i-guess-he-must-work-out-a-lot-i-guess-when-you-think-of-it-it-is-kind-of-funny-no-other-picture-of-gods-from-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/april-genevieve-tucholke/quote/i-wish-people-would-spread-a-faustian-rumor-about-me-i-leaned-over-and-knocked-sunshines-hand-out-of-lukes-hair-a-faustian-myth-i-repeated-its-so-much-more-interesting-than-just-being-that-no 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/mollie-hunter/quote/no-mortal-ear-could-have-heard-the-kelpie-passing-through-the-night-for-the-great-black-hooves-of-it-were-as-soundless-in-their-stride-as-feathers-falling 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joseph-campbell/quote/in-marriage-you-are-not-sacrificing-yourself-to-the-other-person-you-are-sacrificing-yourself-to-the-relationshipyou-become-mature-when-you-become-the-authority-of-your-own-lifelife-will-alwa 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eric-bredesen/quote/the-name-eveeabage-stems-from-the-latin-aetas-which-is-from-aevum-lifetime-the-word-aetas-is-remarkably-similar-to-the-name-aides-ie-hades-eve-you-see-is-not-adams-wife-but-adams-father-zeus- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brandi-salazar/quote/sitting-down-on-the-stairs-cheyenne-watched-behr-through-the-slats-in-the-railing-she-liked-what-she-saw-covered-in-a-fine-sheen-of-perspiration-muscles-swollen-from-what-was-clearly-a-grueli 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brandi-salazar/quote/she-was-prepared-for-him-to-shut-her-down-when-behr-shrugged-a-shoulder-and-said-yeah-sounds-good-i-think-its-a-good-idea-for-you-to-get-out-of-the-house-but-he-said-stepping-back-into-the-ki 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-burks/quote/i-had-to-find-mr-brentwood-and-i-had-to-save-him-zeus-inc-had-saved-the-world-50-years-ago-when-we-had-depleted-our-energy-resources-the-very-same-zeus-inc-that-now-powered-a-majority-of-the- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-burks/quote/i-quickly-dropped-my-hands-and-changed-the-subject-so-those-two-who-visited-me-the-other-night-who-were-they-i-askedhe-smiled-knowingly-ares-and-aphroditeof-course-i-thought-in-fact-i-think-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-estep/quote/just-another-part-of-that-spartan-killer-instinct-i-can-slay-the-ladies-just-as-well-as-i-can-reapers 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/virgil/quote/and-why-the-winter-suns-so-rush-to-bathe-themselves-in-the-seaand-what-slows-down-the-nights-to-a-long-lingering-crawl 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bree-despain/quote/there-are-a-lot-of-bad-things-out-there-things-the-hounds-of-heaven-werecreated-to-destroy-he-trailed-his-finger-down-the-side-of-my-face-i-cant-be-the-hero-you-wantme-to-be-at-least-not-in-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-milton/quote/not-so-on-man-him-through-their-malice-fallnfather-of-mercy-and-grace-thou-didst-not-doomso-strictly-but-much-more-to-pity-inclineno-sooner-did-thy-dear-and-only-sonperceive-thee-purposd-not- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aleksandra-ninkovic/quote/divine-does-not-tempt-us-to-see-whats-in-our-hearts-it-tempts-us-so-we-could-see-whats-in-our-hearts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carol-lynn-pearson/quote/when-heaven-has-an-earthquake-you-fall-to-your-knees-and-feel-through-the-rubble-to-find-the-pieces-of-god-when-my-eternal-temple-blessed-marriage-shattered-and-everything-that-had-been-meani 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/chuck-wendig/quote/she-treats-herself-as-if-she-is-a-divine-worm-born-of-sand-and-stone 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/loriliai-biernacki/quote/women-are-gods-women-are-the-life-breath 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/natasa-nuit-pantovic/quote/her-name-said-the-oracle-will-this-time-be-ama-a-female-that-sleeps-in-every-one-of-us-yin-of-creation-a-wisdom-guide-that-with-her-purity-extinguishes-thirst-for-spiritual-longings-she-is-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sunday-adelaja/quote/gods-jewish-nation-did-not-understand-his-divine-priority-for-the-kingdom 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eowyn-ivey/quote/everywhere-even-in-the-blackest-abyss-he-believed-one-might-witness-the-divine-the-shadows-and-contrastabsence-itselfas-important-as-the-light-and-marble-for-one-cannot-exist-without-the-othe 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathan-haidt/quote/in-all-human-cultures-the-social-world-has-two-clear-dimensions-a-horizontal-dimension-of-closeness-or-liking-and-a-vertical-one-of-hierarchy-or-status-now-imagine-yourself-happily-moving-aro 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/amy-ippoliti/quote/become-a-vessel-for-the-divine 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/the-mother/quote/consider-the-divine-life-as-the-most-important-thing-to-obtain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ibrahim-ibrahim/quote/the-word-of-god-is-not-divine-it-is-an-attribute-of-the-divine 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/inazo-nitobe/quote/beneath-the-instinct-to-fight-there-lurks-a-diviner-instinct-to-love 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carl-sagan/quote/but-if-they-called-everything-divine-which-they-do-not-understand-why-there-would-be-no-end-of-divine-beings 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sri-jibankrishna-or-diamond/quote/pure-intellect-that-is-mental-individualism-but-the-real-knowledge-to-know-that-i-am-all-these-in-such-a-manner-every-human-being-is-so-what-is-this-divine-intellect-it-is-happening-spontaneo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-bassey-johnson/quote/leaving-the-world-without-keeping-an-heirloom-is-a-degradation-of-the-divine-purpose 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/felix-wantang/quote/you-may-ask-for-anything-but-god-will-only-give-you-what-fits-in-his-divine-plan-john-1414 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nityananda-das/quote/whenever-you-want-to-know-whats-wrong-or-missing-in-your-inner-relationship-with-the-divine-stop-breathe-deeply-and-observe-how-is-your-relationship-with-the-opposite-sex 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leta-b/quote/divine-love-is-limitless-and-the-source-of-miracles 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomm-quackenbush/quote/people-who-believe-their-god-loves-them-unconditionally-are-less-able-to-be-controlled-through-divine-terrorism 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dan-brown/quote/very-little-in-any-organized-faith-is-truly-original-religions-are-not-born-from-scratch-they-grow-from-one-another-modern-religion-is-a-collage-an-assimilated-historical-record-of-mans-quest 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/plato/quote/many-are-the-noble-words-in-which-poets-speak-concerning-the-actions-of-men-but-like-yourself-when-speaking-about-homer-they-do-not-speak-of-them-by-any-rules-of-art-they-are-simply-inspired- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/albert-camus/quote/there-is-something-divine-in-mindless-beauty 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/vishwas-chavan/quote/life-is-a-ritual-of-lovelife-is-a-ritual-of-union-and-life-is-a-dance-of-the-divine 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-butler/quote/mention-but-the-word-divinity-and-our-sense-of-the-divine-is-clouded 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lynne-branard/quote/ruby-describes-the-decorations-at-the-banquet-it-was-like-little-gardens-of-rhapsody-on-every-table-it-was-divine 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-gaitley/quote/we-can-be-amazed-at-man-not-only-because-he-is-a-person-not-only-because-hes-made-in-the-image-of-god-but-also-because-by-the-incarnation-human-nature-itself-has-been-raised-to-a-divine-digni 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/frederic-joliot-curie/quote/it-is-because-i-know-all-that-science-can-bring-to-the-world-that-i-shall-continue-my-efforts-to-ensure-that-it-contributes-to-the-happiness-of-all-men-whether-they-be-white-black-or-yellow-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-henry-huxley/quote/in-order-to-get-over-the-ethical-difficulties-presented-by-the-naive-naturalism-of-many-parts-of-those-scriptures-in-the-divine-authority-of-which-he-firmly-believed-philo-borrowed-from-the-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tf-hodge/quote/nothing-about-me-is-deep-but-my-divine-creator-is-so 2026-10-23T19:25:58+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-skiff/quote/ive-been-offered-proof-of-gods-existence-at-regular-intervals-in-my-life-through-experiences-so-profound-theyve-given-goose-bumps-to-atheists 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rami-ollaik/quote/no-despotism-no-privileged-monopolies-no-police-societies-no-divine-rights-of-the-emirs-or-feudal-landlords-or-shady-priests-and-sheikhs-all-had-the-same-equal-footing-the-rich-and-the-poor-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roz-savage/quote/with-little-going-for-me-other-than-unstoppable-eagerness-a-sense-of-total-commitment-and-a-stubborn-refusal-to-give-up-on-what-felt-like-a-divinely-ordained-scheme-i-cast-myself-upon-the-wat 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mehmet-murat-ildan/quote/when-you-see-a-heron-eating-an-innocent-rabbit-what-comes-to-your-mind-do-you-say-what-a-great-order-god-has-created-or-you-say-what-a-devilish-horror-is-going-on-here-question-your-beliefs-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kelly-cutrone/quote/i-believe-all-women-know-in-their-heart-of-hearts-that-they-truly-are-divine-and-magical-even-if-theyve-temporarily-forgotten 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paul-hoffman/quote/many-are-called-few-are-chosen 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susan-c-young/quote/if-you-want-to-be-successful-how-you-show-up-to-life-matters 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/janna-cachola/quote/im-5-ft-1-that-bonus-is-just-as-important-because-every-little-bit-matters 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lindsey-rietzsch/quote/what-god-wants-for-us-is-always-whats-best-for-us-we-just-need-to-trust-him 2026-10-23T15:12:48+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lindsey-rietzsch/quote/as-a-society-lets-all-strive-to-make-old-fashioned-the-new-fashion-husbands-make-it-clear-to-your-wives-that-you-are-on-a-mission-to-become-her-knight-in-shining-armor 2026-10-23T15:20:16+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lindsey-rietzsch/quote/answers-to-life-you-dont-have-to-have-it-all-figured-out-by-a-certain-age-or-time-in-your-life-it-will-come-in-bits-and-pieces-along-the-way 2026-10-23T15:12:05+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lindsey-rietzsch/quote/its-not-about-what-you-accomplish-its-about-what-you-take-away-from-your-experiences-and-how-you-handle-them 2026-10-23T15:10:56+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lindsey-rietzsch/quote/marriage-is-the-most-sacred-union-in-which-much-respect-is-given-in-society-to-those-who-treat-it-as-such 2026-10-23T15:20:06+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/miya-yamanouchi/quote/heartfelt-communicators-make-such-a-difference-in-the-lives-of-others-through-their-authentic-depth-and-sincere-expression 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/debra-fox/quote/if-you-dont-have-the-courage-to-confront-you-dont-have-the-right-to-complaindont-wait-until-anger-gives-you-the-courage 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-babson/quote/do-we-follow-the-road-lifes-placed-before-us-or-do-we-dare-step-up-and-forge-an-exceptional-path-a-path-fraught-with-struggle-and-sacrifice-yet-one-whose-outcome-places-us-in-destinys-arms 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-babson/quote/leadership-reveals-itself-in-the-big-moments-but-is-forged-in-the-small-it-is-the-exponential-and-compounding-product-of-our-many-incremental-behaviors-and-actions-all-of-which-arise-out-of-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alyson-noel/quote/but-ive-strayed-so-far-from-normal-now-ill-never-find-my-way-back-and-the-truth-is-i-no-longer-want-to 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brennan-manning/quote/the-temptation-of-the-age-is-to-look-good-without-being-good 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gregory-maguire/quote/he-lingered-at-the-door-and-said-the-lion-wants-courage-the-tin-man-a-heart-and-the-scarecrow-brains-dorothy-wants-to-go-home-what-do-you-wan 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susane-colasanti/quote/its-just-like-john-mayer-says-in-slow-dancing-in-a-burning-room-when-its-this-bad-you-have-to-get-out-or-youll-get-burned 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathan-safran-foer/quote/she-said-do-you-have-more-things-that-you-need-or-more-that-you-dont-need-i-said-it-depends-on-what-it-means-to-need 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hugh-howey/quote/hed-only-ever-seen-a-gun-once-a-smaller-one-on-the-hip-of-that-old-deputy-a-gun-hed-always-figured-was-more-for-show-he-stuffed-a-fistful-of-deadly-rounds-in-his-pocket-thinking-how-each-one- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tommy-wallach/quote/do-you-think-it-is-better-to-fail-at-something-worthwhile-or-succeed-at-something-meaningless 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cs-lewis/quote/lead-us-not-into-temptation-often-means-among-other-things-deny-me-those-gratifying-invitations-those-highly-interesting-contacts-that-participation-in-the-brilliant-movements-of-our-age-whic 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jenny-hollowell/quote/over-the-course-of-your-life-you-are-actually-hundreds-of-different-people-you-are-a-different-person-at-the-coffee-shop-than-you-are-at-the-bar-and-a-different-person-for-the-dry-cleaner-tha 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-see/quote/i-am-old-enough-to-know-only-too-well-my-good-and-bad-qualities-which-were-often-one-and-the-same-for-my-entire-life-i-longed-for-love-i-knew-it-was-not-right-for-me-as-a-girl-and-later-as-a- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maryrose-wood/quote/call-it-professional-interest-you-see-jessamine-love-is-a-kind-of-poison-one-of-my-favorite-kinds-in-fact-it-infects-the-blood-it-takes-over-the-mind-it-seizes-dominion-over-the-body-it-amuse 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anne-frank/quote/there-is-a-saying-that-paper-is-more-patient-than-manit-came-back-to-me-on-one-of-my-slightly-melancholy-dayswhile-i-sat-chin-in-handfeeling-too-bored-and-limp-even-to-make-up-my-mind-whether 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachel-joyce/quote/people-would-make-the-decisions-they-wished-to-make-and-some-of-them-would-hurt-both-themselves-and-those-who-loved-them-and-some-would-pass-unnoticed-while-others-would-bring-joy 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/trina-paulus/quote/tell-me-sir-what-is-a-butterflyits-what-you-are-meant-to-become-it-flies-with-beautiful-wings-and-joins-the-earth-to-heaven-it-drinks-only-nectar-from-the-flowers-and-carries-the-seeds-of-lov 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julie-otsuka/quote/and-if-anyone-asks-youre-chinese-the-boy-had-nodded-chinese-he-whispered-im-chinese-and-i-said-the-girl-am-the-queen-of-spain-in-your-dreams-said-the-boy-in-my-dreams-said-the-girl-im-the-kin 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maryrose-wood/quote/you-flesh-bodies-are-so-obsessed-with-goodness-yet-no-other-form-of-life-on-earth-is-capable-of-such-cruelty-you-need-only-convince-yourselves-your-transgressions-serve-some-purpose-even-if-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rebecca-wells/quote/sometimes-i-wonder-if-any-of-us-are-cut-out-for-the-lives-we-lead 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-thomson/quote/if-blue-helmeted-un-peacekeepers-show-up-in-your-town-or-village-and-offer-to-protect-you-run 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/chris-cleave/quote/before-you-bombed-my-boy-osama-i-always-thought-an-explosion-was-such-a-quick-thing-but-now-i-know-better-the-flash-is-over-very-fast-but-the-fire-catches-hold-inside-you-and-the-noise-never- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kay-ryan/quote/bait-goatthere-is-a-distance-where-magnets-pull-we-feel-having-held-them-back-likewise-there-is-a-distance-where-words-attract-set-one-out-like-a-bait-goat-and-wait-and-seven-others-will-appr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nk-jemisin/quote/it-was-very-bad-if-the-council-had-resorted-to-recruiting-men-by-tradition-men-were-our-last-line-of-defence-their-physical-strength-bent-towards-the-single-and-most-important-task-of-protect 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/the-arbinger-institute/quote/have-you-ever-been-in-a-conflict-with-someone-who-thought-he-was-wrong-if-you-are-not-wrong-then-you-will-be-willing-to-consider-how-you-might-be-mistaken 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-riordan/quote/they-were-all-clad-in-the-same-uniform-of-misery-and-filth-for-all-of-time-for-all-of-eternity 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/russell-freedman/quote/i-have-mo-prejudice-against-the-southern-people-they-are-just-what-we-would-ben-in-their-situation-if-slavery-did-not-now-exits-amongst-them-they-wld-not-inrtoduce-it-if-it-did-now-exist-amon 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cheikh-anta-diop/quote/the-generation-that-followed-did-not-have-the-same-concerns-none-of-its-members-attempted-to-follow-the-example-of-the-past-generation-there-was-no-longer-anyone-with-the-noble-determination- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-kleypas/quote/theres-only-one-thing-a-bully-respected-bigger-bully 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/william-goldman/quote/how-can-the-removal-of-beauty-from-a-world-so-lacking-in-beauty-be-anything-but-tragic 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/haruki-murakami/quote/there-are-symbolic-dreams-dreams-that-symbolize-some-reality-then-there-are-symbolic-realities-realities-that-symbolize-a-dream 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maryrose-wood/quote/but-was-that-not-the-task-you-set-me-to-defend-the-helpless-against-the-strong-indeed-it-was-master-weed-but-who-is-to-say-who-is-helpless-and-who-is-strong-if-you-seek-the-power-to-alter-fat 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mike-higton/quote/knowledge-is-what-enables-one-to-be-wrong-p-11 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julie-otsuka/quote/because-the-man-who-stood-there-before-us-was-not-our-father-he-was-somebody-else-a-stranger-who-had-been-sent-back-in-our-fathers-place-thats-not-him-we-said-to-our-mother-thats-not-him-but- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/orhan-pamuk/quote/yet-does-illustrating-in-a-new-way-signify-a-new-way-of-seeing 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-brinkley/quote/news-is-something-worth-knowing-that-you-didnt-know-already-by-an-earnest-young-woman-in-his-journalism-class 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ac-flanagan/quote/how-do-you-explain-to-your-friends-mother-why-a-night-out-with-friends-has-left-her-daughter-dying-from-an-ecstasy-overdose 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-haigh/quote/the-human-heart-its-expansions-and-contractions-its-electrics-and-hydraulics-the-warm-tides-that-move-and-fill-it-for-years-art-had-studied-it-from-a-safe-distance-from-many-perspectiveshe-li 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/karl-jacoby/quote/given-the-obstacles-to-merging-these-fragile-and-diverse-forms-of-storytelling-into-a-single-tale-it-is-paradoxically-by-venturing-in-the-opposite-direction-by-listening-for-the-silences-betw 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aaron-shepard/quote/the-old-tales-of-china-tell-us-that-all-things-may-grow-and-change-a-stone-may-become-a-plant-a-plant-may-become-an-animal-an-animal-may-become-a-human-a-human-may-become-a-godjust-so-a-snake 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kamala-markandaya/quote/we-live-by-our-labors-from-one-harvest-to-the-next-there-is-no-certain-telling-whether-we-shall-be-able-to-feed-ourselves-and-our-children-and-if-bad-times-are-prolonged-we-know-we-must-see-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-masello/quote/if-these-self-anointed-leaders-did-not-keep-the-people-aroused-with-calls-to-preserve-the-revolution-or-to-defend-it-from-one-imaginary-foe-after-another-then-the-people-might-shake-themselve 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sydney-banks/quote/take-that-rose-bush-for-example-we-are-all-looking-at-the-same-plant-but-our-perception-of-it-varies-according-to-the-way-we-each-think-and-see-one-person-may-see-a-vigorous-rose-another-may- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/han-kang/quote/im-fighting-alone-every-day-i-fight-with-the-hell-that-i-survived-i-fight-with-the-fact-of-my-own-humanity-i-fight-with-the-idea-that-death-is-the-only-way-of-escaping-this-fact 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eduardo-galeano/quote/disasters-are-called-natural-as-if-nature-were-the-executioner-and-not-the-victim 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/friedrich-nietzsche/quote/perhaps-no-one-has-yet-been-truthful-enough-about-what-truthfulness-is 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/cassandra-clare/quote/well-i-want-novels-said-tessa-or-poetry-books-are-for-reading-not-for-turning-oneself-into-livestock-wills-eyes-glittered-i-think-we-may-have-a-cope-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-about-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/friedrich-nietzsche/quote/even-on-this-level-it-is-at-bottom-not-deception-men-hate-but-the-dire-inimical-consequences-of-certain-kinds-of-deception 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rainbow-rowell/quote/if-youre-as-good-as-your-word-words-should-be-good-enough 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jp-robinson/quote/we-think-we-are-so-strong-but-it-is-only-when-others-try-to-prey-on-our-weaknesses-that-we-realize-how-frail-we-truly-are-skyla-from-twiceborn 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ben-h-winters/quote/there-was-some-little-local-controversy-too-about-a-fundraising-effort-called-suzies-closet-folks-getting-together-in-church-basements-to-make-care-packages-for-the-plantations-blankets-and-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ellie-elisabeth/quote/im-avoiding-tomorrow-by-spending-more-time-in-today 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/shay-dawkins/quote/you-either-win-or-you-learn-either-way-you-win 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aw-tozer/quote/a-superior-brain-without-the-saving-essence-of-godliness-may-turn-against-the-human-race-and-drench-the-world-in-blood-or-worse-it-may-loose-ideas-into-the-earth-which-will-continue-to-curse- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mira-monroe/quote/accept-who-you-are-dont-leave-me-willow-we-are-all-broken-thats-how-the-light-shines-through-rhydian 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarah-benson/quote/you-can-be-proud-of-your-country-and-culture-and-at-the-same-time-recognize-that-there-is-something-thats-wrong-that-needs-to-be-changed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mira-monroe/quote/youre-more-capable-than-you-know-deep-down-you-have-a-magick-inside-you-that-youve-tucked-away-that-needs-release-its-a-connection-to-who-you-are-and-what-you-are-capable-of-evan 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mika-chanell/quote/sometimes-money-is-the-only-thing-that-people-have-and-they-feel-threatened-when-they-think-they-are-losing-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-weldon-johnson/quote/the-fact-is-nothing-great-or-enduring-especially-in-music-has-ever-sprung-full-fledged-and-unprecedented-from-the-brain-of-any-master-the-best-that-he-gives-to-the-world-he-gathers-from-the-h 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/sl-northey/quote/most-epiphanies-happen-after-great-loss-or-tragedy-the-soul-is-equipped-to-deal-with-dynamic-events-because-of-its-elastic-quality-energy-is-mutable-it-can-change-its-presence-but-not-its-ton 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/annette-janic/quote/war-child-is-the-true-story-of-magdalena-leni-janic-whose-name-appears-on-the-welcome-wall-at-sydneys-darling-harbour-the-story-spans-100-years-starting-in-pre-wwii-nazi-germany-and-ends-in-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sonya-hartnett/quote/youre-just-a-coward-like-all-those-who-stand-behind-the-suffering-of-others 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carl-sagan/quote/we-sometimes-hear-of-things-that-can-travel-faster-than-light-something-called-the-speed-of-thought-is-occasionally-proffered-this-is-an-exceptionally-silly-notion-especially-since-the-speed- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/colin-tegerdine/quote/god-is-your-thoughts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrei-tarkovsky/quote/poetry-is-an-awareness-of-the-world-a-particular-way-of-relating-to-reality 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robyn-schneider/quote/and-so-she-ghosted-on-in-relentless-pursuit-of-escape-not-from-society-but-from-herself 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sharon-m-draper/quote/maybe-im-not-so-different-from-everyone-else-after-all-its-like-somebody-gave-me-a-puzzle-but-i-dont-have-the-box-with-the-picture-on-it-so-i-dont-know-what-the-final-thing-is-supposed-to-loo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarah-jio/quote/all-i-hear-is-my-own-grating-thoughts-is-there-anything-more-horrid-than-being-trapped-inside-yourself-with-nothing-but-your-own-insecurities 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rakesh-sethi/quote/when-you-argue-for-your-limitations-natures-very-kind-it-gives-them-to-you-just-like-when-you-desire-to-go-beyond-nature-conspires-to-open-ways-for-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marilyn-slagel/quote/life-is-short-live-each-day-to-the-fullest-you-may-see-god-face-to-face-tomorrow 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-carlin/quote/isnt-it-a-bit-unnerving-that-doctors-call-what-they-do-practice 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/we-look-for-medicine-to-be-an-orderly-field-of-knowledge-and-procedure-but-it-is-not-it-is-an-imperfect-science-an-enterprise-of-constantly-changing-knowledge-uncertain-information-fallible-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-w-watts/quote/hospitals-should-be-arranged-in-such-a-way-as-to-make-being-sick-an-interesting-experience-one-learns-a-great-deal-sometimes-from-being-sick 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kurt-vonnegut-jr/quote/the-most-exquisite-pleasure-in-the-practice-of-medicine-comes-from-nudging-a-layman-in-the-direction-of-terror-then-bringing-him-back-to-safety-again 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ron-hall/quote/good-medicine-always-tastes-bad 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-shem/quote/the-patient-is-the-one-with-the-disease 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edward-e-rosenbaum/quote/doctors-are-great-as-long-as-you-dont-need-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/charlotte-gerson/quote/modern-allopathic-medicine-is-the-only-major-science-stuck-in-the-pre-einstein-era 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abraham-verghese/quote/i-welcomed-my-slavish-existence-as-a-surgical-resident-the-never-ending-work-the-cries-that-kept-me-in-the-present-the-immersion-in-blood-pus-and-tears-the-fluids-in-which-one-dissolved-all-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-louis-stevenson/quote/doctors-is-all-swabs 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terry-pratchett/quote/the-doctor-looked-shifty-hes-still-breathing-he-said-look-his-pulse-is-nearly-humming-and-hes-got-a-temperature-you-could-fry-eggs-on-he-hesitated-aware-that-this-was-probably-too-straightfor 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abraham-verghese/quote/surely-you-couldnt-be-a-good-doctor-and-a-terrible-human-being-surely-the-laws-of-man-if-not-god-didnt-allow-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pamela-grim/quote/here-in-bosnia-i-had-already-seen-several-cases-of-rheumatic-fever-and-a-case-we-thought-was-miliary-tuberculosis-diseases-now-rare-in-america-it-was-sobering-to-think-that-the-mundane-proces 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-shem/quote/gomers-are-human-beings-who-have-lost-what-goes-into-being-human-beings-they-want-to-die-and-we-will-not-let-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-shem/quote/to-do-nothing-for-the-gomers-was-to-do-something-and-the-more-conscientiously-i-did-nothing-the-better-they-got 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-sagan/quote/primum-non-nocere-first-dont-make-things-worse-was-an-essential-principle-of-hippocrates-medicine-nowadays-unfortunately-it-seems-to-have-been-forgotten-conventional-modern-medicine-aims-at-g 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abraham-verghese/quote/the-world-turns-on-our-every-action-and-our-every-omission-whether-we-know-it-or-not-cutting-for-stone 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/danielle-ofri/quote/but-at-the-most-basic-level-doctors-need-to-be-able-to-come-forward-with-their-errors-and-near-misses-otherwise-we-will-never-know-where-the-problems-lay 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eve-ensler/quote/in-the-nineteenth-century-girls-who-learned-to-develop-orgasmic-capacity-by-masturbation-were-regarded-as-medical-problems-often-they-were-treated-or-corrected-by-amputation-or-cautery-of-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terrence-holt/quote/the-story-was-an-82-year-old-guy-with-a-broken-neck-he-had-apparently-fallen-in-his-bathroom-that-morning-cracking-his-1st-and-2nd-vertebrae-i-had-a-vague-memory-from-medical-school-that-this 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/maurice-renard/quote/to-her-despair-was-added-a-philosophical-dejection-the-feeling-of-every-thinker-who-venturing-an-inquisitive-finger-beneath-the-velvet-of-a-throne-comes-upon-the-coarse-pinewood-and-then-it-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/seth-holmes/quote/the-pressures-of-the-current-neoliberal-capitalist-system-of-health-care-and-its-financing-force-health-professionals-into-a-double-bind-either-they-spend-the-time-and-energy-necessary-to-lis 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/in-this-work-against-sickness-we-begin-not-with-genetic-or-cellular-interactions-but-with-human-ones-they-are-what-make-medicine-so-complex-and-fascinating 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kathryn-butler/quote/for-years-i-had-convinced-myself-that-as-a-doctor-i-sacrificed-moments-with-friends-family-and-my-husband-for-the-greater-good-the-call-to-heal-the-sick-and-tend-the-injured-superseded-all-el 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/danielle-ofri/quote/neuroscientist-antonio-damasio-describes-emotions-as-the-continuous-musical-line-of-our-minds-the-unstoppable-humming-this-basso-continuo-thrums-along-while-doctors-make-a-steady-stream-of-co 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paul-kalanithi/quote/words-began-to-feel-as-weightless-as-the-breath-that-carried-stepping-back-i-realized-that-i-was-merely-confirming-what-i-already-knew-i-wanted-that-direct-experience-it-was-only-in-practicin 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/public-facts-are-not-like-pebbles-on-the-beach-lying-in-the-sun-and-waiting-to-be-seen-they-must-instead-be-picked-polished-shaped-and-packaged-finally-ready-for-display-they-the-bear-the-mar 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/reality-is-defined-not-as-something-that-exists-out-there-for-the-scientist-or-anyone-else-to-discover-but-as-a-social-construction-that-emerges-from-and-is-sustained-by-social-interaction 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/deviance-is-an-attributed-designation-rather-than-something-inherent-in-individuals 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/when-a-theological-world-view-dominated-deviance-was-sin-when-the-nation-states-emerged-from-the-decay-of-feudalism-most-deviance-became-designated-as-crime-and-in-our-own-scientifically-orie 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/there-are-no-illnesses-in-nature-only-relationships-there-are-of-course-naturally-occurring-events-including-infectious-viruses-malignant-growths-ruptures-of-tissues-and-unusual-chromosome-co 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/illnesses-represent-human-judgments-of-conditions-that-exist-in-the-natural-world-they-are-essentially-social-constructions-products-of-our-own-creation 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/social-change-is-not-clearly-linear-and-rarely-totally-beneficial-or-detrimental-social-change-nearly-nearly-always-produces-positive-and-negative-effects-that-are-distributed-differentially- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/catherine-bailey/quote/but-they-turned-out-to-be-prescriptions-for-medicines-and-not-for-the-common-cold-opium-lavender-oil-belladonna-orange-rind-chloral-hydrate-strychnine-potassium-bromide-such-sedatives-and-sti 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/what-each-culture-views-as-the-cause-of-madness-is-dependent-on-its-world-view 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anurag-shourie/quote/being-a-doctor-you-are-not-supposed-to-give-vent-to-any-signs-of-revulsion-on-encountering-the-most-noxious-of-odours-or-the-most-gruesome-of-sights 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-eliot/quote/i-should-never-have-been-happy-in-any-profession-that-did-not-call-forth-the-highest-intellectual-strain-and-yet-keep-me-in-good-warm-contact-with-my-neighbors-there-is-nothing-like-the-medic 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-lindemann/quote/when-ill-the-patient-assumes-what-parsons-called-the-sick-role-accordingly-the-sick-person-is-on-the-one-hand-excused-his-or-her-social-responsabilites-but-on-the-other-hand-is-expected-to-de 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/russ-ramsey/quote/with-all-due-respect-to-my-surgeon-in-a-perfect-world-he-would-be-out-of-a-job 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tc-fry/quote/what-are-called-viruses-are-always-dead-and-incapable-of-any-acts-whatsoever-dead-matter-may-be-acted-upon-but-never-acts-of-itself 2026-10-23T15:16:37+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-marion/quote/it-just-shows-you-that-if-you-take-a-plain-ordinary-moronic-intern-and-make-him-do-the-same-things-over-and-over-again-until-he-loses-is-mind-you-can-teach-him-to-do-almost-anything-i-think-n 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hippocratic-oath/quote/there-is-an-art-to-medicine-as-well-as-science-and-that-warmth-sympathy-and-understanding-may-outweigh-the-surgeons-knife 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rosemary-sutcliff/quote/but-against-sandfly-fever-one-could-be-inoculated-and-i-have-another-hideously-vivid-picture-of-a-great-menacing-brute-of-a-doctor-sticking-a-thing-that-ended-in-a-vicious-needle-into-my-moth 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/herbert-m-shelton/quote/the-great-error-of-physicians-has-been-that-of-attributing-recovery-to-the-operations-of-their-poisons-while-they-have-left-out-of-account-the-healing-powers-of-the-body-itself 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/when-our-time-is-limited-and-we-are-uncertain-about-how-best-to-serve-our-priorities-we-are-forced-to-deal-with-the-fact-that-both-the-experiencing-self-and-the-remembering-self-matter-we-do- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/akira-kurosawa/quote/in-the-pre-war-era-when-itinerant-home-remedy-salesmen-still-wandered-the-country-they-had-a-traditional-patter-for-selling-a-potion-that-was-supposed-to-be-particularly-effective-in-treating 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abraham-verghese/quote/surgery-was-the-most-difficult-thing-i-could-imagineand-so-i-became-a-surgeon 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abraham-verghese/quote/i-was-temperamentally-better-suited-to-a-cognitive-discipline-to-an-introspective-field-internal-medicine-or-perhaps-psychiatry-the-sight-of-the-operating-theater-made-me-sweat-the-idea-of-ho 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-bernard-shaw/quote/well-ive-known-over-thirty-men-whove-found-out-how-to-cure-consumption-why-do-people-go-on-dying-of-it-colly-devilment-i-suppose 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/courtney-milan/quote/if-ive-learned-anything-its-that-we-know-next-to-nothing-disease-is-a-mystery-health-is-inscrutable-the-body-itself-is-scarcely-understood-we-can-only-examine-the-secrets-of-the-dead-and-in-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paul-silway/quote/there-has-never-been-a-miracle-drug-that-could-equal-the-word-of-god-gods-medicine-is-the-answer-to-every-need 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/suzanne-osullivan/quote/all-my-patients-are-individuals-with-their-own-story-to-tell-their-own-set-of-problems-and-their-own-solution-even-where-the-symptoms-of-their-distress-are-very-similar-the-roads-that-bring-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/do-what-is-right-and-do-it-now 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sherwin-b-nuland/quote/death-with-dignity-is-our-societys-expression-of-the-universal-yearning-to-achieve-a-graceful-triumph-over-the-stark-and-often-repugnant-finality-of-lifes-last-sputterings-but-the-fact-is-dea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-hoberman/quote/recent-sociological-findings-indicate-that-while-whites-have-largely-abandoned-principled-racism-they-have-not-necessarily-given-up-negative-racial-stereotypes-or-negative-sentiments-and-beli 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-s-weeder/quote/several-years-ago-i-realized-that-i-didnt-want-to-spend-all-my-life-in-medicine-it-had-me-in-a-sort-of-spiritual-box-like-a-plant-whose-roots-are-getting-crowded-i-felt-i-wasnt-growing-so-i-p 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/what-is-troubling-is-not-just-being-average-but-settling-for-it-everyone-knows-that-average-ness-is-for-most-of-us-our-fate-and-in-certain-matters-looks-money-tennis-we-would-do-well-to-accep 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/we-think-our-job-is-to-ensure-health-and-survival-but-really-it-is-larger-than-that-it-is-to-enable-well-being-and-well-being-is-about-the-reasons-one-wishes-to-be-alive-those-reasons-matter- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/at-least-two-kinds-of-courage-are-required-in-aging-and-sickness-the-first-is-the-courage-to-confront-the-reality-of-mortality-the-courage-to-seek-out-the-truth-of-what-is-to-be-feared-and-wh 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/agatha-christie/quote/i-always-feel-that-young-doctors-are-only-too-anxious-too-experiment-after-theyve-whipped-out-all-our-teeth-and-administered-quantities-of-very-peculiar-glands-and-removed-bits-of-our-insides 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/philip-ball/quote/a-so-called-antimony-war-had-been-waged-between-french-galenist-physicians-and-alchemical-paracelsian-iatrochemists-since-the-beginning-of-the-seventeenth-century-what-it-lacked-in-bloodletti 2026-10-23T17:24:07+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/adeline-yen-mah/quote/alcenith-crawford-a-divorced-ophthalmologist-we-women-doctors-have-un-happy-marriages-because-in-our-minds-we-are-the-superstars-of-our-families-having-survived-the-hardship-of-medical-school 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/william-crawford-gorgas/quote/the-case-which-i-reported-on-september-26-1901-was-really-the-last-which-occurred-in-havana-of-course-we-did-not-know-it-at-the-time-but-this-case-marked-the-first-conquest-of-yellow-fever-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-kleypas/quote/turning-at-the-sound-of-voices-amelia-saw-merripen-carrying-her-sister-outside-win-was-dressed-in-a-nightgown-and-robe-and-swathed-in-a-shawl-her-slim-arms-looped-around-merripens-neck-with-h 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/temple-grandin/quote/label-locked-thinking-can-affect-treatment-for-instance-i-heard-a-doctor-say-about-a-kid-with-gastrointestinal-issues-oh-he-has-autism-thats-the-problem-and-then-he-didnt-treat-the-gi-problem 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sherwin-b-nuland/quote/in-the-community-of-living-tissues-the-uncontrolled-mob-of-misfits-that-is-cancer-behaves-like-a-gang-of-perpetually-wilding-adolescents-they-are-the-juvenile-delinquents-of-cellular-society 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-conrad/quote/a-slow-but-steady-transformation-of-deviance-has-taken-place-in-american-society-it-has-not-been-a-change-in-behavior-as-such-but-in-how-behavior-is-defined-deviant-behaviors-that-were-once-d 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/terry-pratchett/quote/the-apothecarys-name-was-owlglass-he-hummed-to-himself-as-he-worked-in-his-back-room-hed-found-a-new-type-of-blue-fluff-which-he-was-grinding-down-it-was-probably-good-for-curing-something-he 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-wall-kimmerer/quote/i-wonder-if-much-that-ails-our-society-stems-from-the-fact-that-we-have-allowed-ourselves-to-be-cut-off-from-that-love-of-and-from-the-land-it-is-medicine-for-broken-land-and-empty-hearts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/life-is-choices-and-they-are-relentless-no-sooner-have-you-made-one-choice-than-another-is-upon-you 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/there-is-a-saying-about-surgeons-meant-as-a-reproof-sometimes-wrong-never-in-doubt-but-this-seemed-to-me-their-strength-each-day-surgeons-are-faced-with-uncertainties-information-is-inadequat 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eula-biss/quote/and-when-comfort-is-what-we-want-one-of-the-most-powerful-tonics-alternative-medicine-offers-is-the-word-natural-this-word-implies-a-medicine-untroubled-by-human-limitations-contrived-wholly- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sam-kean/quote/in-these-days-before-antiseptics-doctors-themselves-also-suffered-high-mortality-rates-florence-nightingale-a-nurse-during-the-crimean-war-1853-1856-watched-one-particularly-inept-surgeon-cut 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/the-core-predicament-of-medicine-the-thing-that-makes-being-a-patient-so-wrenching-being-a-doctor-so-difficult-and-being-a-part-of-society-that-pays-the-bills-they-run-up-so-vexing-is-uncerta 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/the-simple-view-is-that-medicine-exists-to-fight-death-and-disease-and-that-is-of-course-its-most-basic-task-death-is-the-enemy-but-the-enemy-has-superior-forces-eventually-it-wins-and-in-a-w 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-martensen/quote/there-is-one-essential-requirement-for-being-close-with-a-dying-person-the-letting-go-of-self-concern 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/we-want-progress-in-medicine-to-be-clear-and-unequivocal-but-of-course-it-rarely-is-every-new-treatment-has-gaping-unknowns-for-both-patients-and-society-and-it-can-be-hard-to-decide-what-do- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-martensen/quote/our-health-care-approaches-squander-billions-on-extravagant-treatment-regimes-that-end-up-accomplishing-little-as-a-society-we-refuse-to-adopt-the-small-even-tiny-adjustments-that-could-easil 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/if-there-is-a-credo-in-practical-medicine-it-is-that-the-important-thing-is-to-be-sensible 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aleksandr-solzhenitsyn/quote/work-he-said-was-a-first-rate-medicine-for-any-illness 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jacob-m-appel/quote/such-is-the-demographic-paradox-of-a-junior-physicians-relationship-with-his-patients-i-worry-about-how-to-extend-their-lives-this-anxiety-inevitably-shortens-my-own 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julio-pereira/quote/we-are-not-able-to-express-ourselves-in-a-hospital-even-when-seriously-ill-we-dont-have-time 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/max-gladstone/quote/they-found-the-infirmary-of-justice-much-as-they-had-left-it-white-institutional-walls-too-bright-floors-and-a-reassuring-smell-of-antiseptic-reassuring-at-least-to-tara-because-the-smell-sig 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edison-mcdaniels/quote/the-evening-was-a-string-of-miserable-minutes-strung-together-in-tiny-clusters-three-minutes-for-a-man-shot-through-the-shoulder-ellis-put-first-a-finger-in-the-entry-wound-and-then-another-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julio-pereira/quote/my-book-contains-texts-that-i-wrote-during-college-medical-school-and-during-my-residency-of-neurosurgery-i-could-set-the-book-thoughts-from-the-hospital-as-clippings-thoughts 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/siddhartha-mukherjee/quote/labs-too-can-become-machines-in-science-it-is-more-often-a-pejorative-description-than-a-complimentary-one-an-efficient-thrumming-technically-accomplished-laboratory-is-like-a-robot-orchestra 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gregor-collins/quote/out-of-all-the-medical-advancements-in-human-history-im-still-most-in-awe-of-that-tiny-little-piece-of-toilet-paper-that-can-stop-a-gushing-razor-cut-in-its-tracks 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/volney-steele/quote/one-popular-saying-was-the-boy-who-goes-into-medicine-is-too-lazy-for-farm-or-shop-too-stupid-for-the-bar-and-too-immoral-for-the-pulpit 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carl-sagan/quote/advances-in-medicine-and-agriculture-have-saved-vastly-more-lives-than-have-been-lost-in-all-the-wars-in-history 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aeschylus/quote/every-medicine-is-vain 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-rose-bennett/quote/i-have-found-that-if-i-tend-to-a-persons-illness-rather-than-to-theperson-i-am-going-to-treat-that-person-as-if-they-are-their-illness-in-doing-so-i-run-the-risk-of-limiting-them-greatly-and- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-blackwell/quote/to-her-florence-nightingale-chiefly-i-owed-the-awakening-to-the-fact-that-sanitation-is-the-supreme-goal-of-medicine-its-foundation-and-its-crown 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sam-kean/quote/unlike-modern-pills-these-hard-antimony-pills-didnt-dissolve-in-the-intestines-and-the-pills-were-considered-so-valuable-that-people-rooted-through-fecal-matter-to-retrieve-and-reuse-them-som 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-rose-bennett/quote/if-you-listen-to-your-body-and-your-intuition-theyll-guide-you-well-there-are-countless-ways-to-develop-listening-skills-some-helpful-and-classic-practices-include-dancing-and-drumming-sittin 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robin-rose-bennett/quote/if-ever-there-was-a-plant-that-speaks-to-its-connection-to-your-heart-it-is-sweet-blue-violet-not-only-does-violet-help-your-body-dissolve-cysts-lumps-and-bumps-this-plants-soothing-nature-ca 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samuel-shem/quote/there-is-no-body-cavity-that-cannot-be-reached-with-a-number-fourteen-needle-and-a-good-strong-arm 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomas-hager/quote/where-there-were-once-several-competing-approaches-to-medicine-there-is-now-only-one-that-matters-to-most-hospitals-insurers-and-the-vast-majority-of-the-public-one-that-has-been-shaped-to-a- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/louis-pasteur/quote/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-special-category-of-science-called-applied-science-there-is-science-and-its-applications-which-are-related-to-one-another-as-the-fruit-is-related-to-the-tree-that- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathon-miller-weisberger/quote/review-like-a-master-artisan-weisberger-weaves-together-threads-of-anthropology-botany-ecology-and-psychology-in-an-inspiring-tapestry-of-ideas-sure-to-keep-discerning-readers-warm-and-hopefu 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/randolph-m-nesse/quote/chlamydia-todays-most-common-cause-of-venereal-disease-does-the-equivalent-of-hiding-in-the-police-stationschistosomes-of-the-mansoni-type-go-a-step-further-and-essentially-steal-police-unifo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nicholaus-patnaude/quote/now-that-karen-has-been-resurrected-i-can-travel-beyond-the-black-mirror-i-can-discover-who-i-have-lost-with-thefloating-hearts-and-severed-heads-of-my-medicine-i-must-now-whisper-my-other-fr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathon-miller-weisberger/quote/when-speaking-of-the-mighty-andes-and-the-so-called-eyebrows-country-at-the-ranges-eastern-base-the-tropical-wet-forest-region-i-am-first-obliged-to-give-homage-to-the-apu-the-mountain-lords- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathon-miller-weisberger/quote/the-secoya-are-trapped-between-the-devastating-effects-of-the-colonization-frontier-and-their-rich-traditional-past-which-is-proving-to-be-as-fragile-a-reality-and-as-fleeting-a-memory-as-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathon-miller-weisberger/quote/among-the-secoya-clear-guidelines-regulate-preparation-of-the-medicine-they-are-adamant-about-this-preparation-method-and-insist-that-the-guidelines-be-followed-ive-already-discussed-some-fun 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathon-miller-weisberger/quote/if-science-is-defined-or-understood-as-a-mode-of-seeking-knowledge-a-means-of-interpreting-nature-in-a-way-that-can-be-demonstrated-to-others-then-the-plant-medicine-traditions-of-the-amazon- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kenneth-oppel/quote/you-see-when-medicine-works-it-is-blessed-science-and-when-it-fails-it-is-witchcraft-polidori 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/the-doctors-found-out-that-bunbury-could-not-live-that-is-what-i-mean-so-bunbury-diedhe-seems-to-have-had-great-confidence-in-the-opinion-of-his-physicians-i-am-glad-however-that-he-made-up-h 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/the-possibilities-and-probabilities-are-all-we-have-to-work-with-in-medicine-though-what-we-are-drawn-to-in-this-imperfect-science-what-we-in-fact-covet-in-our-way-is-the-alterable-moment-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anne-m-lipton/quote/first-do-no-harm-hippocratessecond-do-some-good-anne-m-lipton-md-phd 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/herbert-m-shelton/quote/at-the-very-dawn-of-history-the-care-of-the-sick-was-actually-superior-to-what-the-great-majority-of-mankind-receive-today-when-ill 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/herbert-m-shelton/quote/a-modern-hospital-is-like-grand-central-station-all-noise-and-hubbub-and-is-filled-with-smoking-physicians-nurses-orderlies-patients-and-visitors-soft-drinks-are-sold-on-each-floor-and-everyb 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/randolph-m-nesse/quote/darwinism-gives-no-moral-guidelines-about-how-we-should-live-or-how-doctors-should-practice-medicine-a-darwinian-perspective-on-medicine-can-however-help-us-to-understand-the-evolutionary-ori 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-presbury-rowell/quote/i-have-always-understood-that-money-made-in-the-patent-medicine-business-is-a-practical-bar-to-social-success 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/susannah-cahalan/quote/in-the-spring-of-2009-i-was-the-217th-person-ever-to-be-diagnosed-with-anti-nmda-receptor-autoimmune-encephalitis-just-a-year-later-that-figure-had-doubled-now-the-number-is-in-the-thousands- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/are-doctors-who-make-mistakes-villains-no-because-then-we-all-are 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/harriet-a-washington/quote/physicians-patients-and-ethicists-must-also-understand-that-acknowledging-abuse-and-encouraging-african-americans-to-participate-in-research-are-compatible-goals-history-and-todays-deplorable 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/vs-ramachandran/quote/one-of-the-first-things-we-teach-medical-students-is-to-listen-to-the-patient-by-taking-a-careful-medical-history-ninety-percent-of-the-time-you-can-arrive-at-an-uncannily-accurate-diagnosis- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-foster-wallace/quote/doctors-tend-to-enter-the-arenas-of-their-professions-practice-with-a-brisk-good-cheer-that-they-have-to-then-stop-and-try-to-mute-a-bit-when-the-arena-theyre-entering-is-a-hospitals-fifth-fl 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/abraham-verghese/quote/american-ambulance-crews-salvaged-people-wed-never-see-in-missing-because-no-one-would-have-tied-to-bring-them-to-a-hospital-judging-someone-to-be-beyond-help-never-crossed-the-minds-of-polic 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-harpole/quote/it-is-an-odd-thing-that-you-can-easily-get-millions-of-pounds-for-weapons-to-destroy-life-but-it-is-exceedingly-difficult-to-get-thousands-for-weapons-to-preserve-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/neel-burton/quote/philosophy-is-a-bitter-medicine-with-many-fearsome-side-effects-but-if-you-are-able-to-stomach-it-it-can-cure-your-soul-of-the-many-ills-and-infirmities-of-ignorance-given-the-choice-most-men 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-sanders/quote/i-dont-count-jennifer-among-my-mistakes-she-had-a-severe-infection-and-precious-little-reserve-nevertheless-i-think-of-her-often-those-minutes-of-terror-and-confusion-i-felt-standing-powerles 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ma-jian/quote/before-the-counter-culture-revolutionary-li-lian-was-executed-in-1971-for-criticising-the-cultural-revolution-pour-policemen-pushed-her-face-against-the-window-of-a-truck-lifted-her-shirt-and 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dara-o-briain/quote/im-sorry-herbal-medicine-oh-herbal-medicines-been-around-for-thousands-of-years-indeed-it-has-and-then-we-tested-it-all-and-the-stuff-that-worked-became-medicine-and-the-rest-of-it-is-just-a- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/atul-gawande/quote/the-striking-thing-is-that-who-doesnt-really-have-the-authority-to-do-any-of-this-it-cant-tell-governments-what-to-do-it-hires-no-vaccinators-distributes-no-vaccine-it-is-a-small-geneva-burea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jk-rowling/quote/harry-i-think-ive-just-understood-something-ive-got-to-go-to-the-libraryand-she-sprinted-away-up-the-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rainbow-rowell/quote/because-im-the-kind-of-girl-who-fantasizes-about-being-trapped-in-a-library-overnight 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dorothy-gambrell/quote/if-televisions-a-babysitter-the-internet-is-a-drunk-librarian-who-wont-shut-up 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rainbow-rowell/quote/i-always-get-lost-in-the-library-he-said-no-matter-how-many-times-i-go-in-fact-i-think-i-get-lost-there-more-the-more-that-i-go-like-its-getting-to-know-me-and-revealing-new-passages 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/when-i-tell-people-i-went-to-library-school-the-most-common-reaction-is-either-youre-joking-right-or-they-have-schools-for-librarians-do-they-teach-you-how-to-properly-sssh-people 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/i-cannot-comprehend-the-neglect-of-a-family-library-in-such-days-as-these-mr-darcy 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-waters/quote/nothing-is-more-impotent-than-an-unread-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dean-koontz/quote/now-take-my-hand-and-hold-it-tighti-will-not-fail-you-here-tonightfor-failing-you-i-fail-myselfand-place-my-soul-upon-a-shelfin-hells-library-without-lighti-will-not-fail-you-here-tonight 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-jakes/quote/i-have-always-had-a-special-affinity-for-libraries-and-librarians-for-the-most-obvious-reasons-i-love-books-one-of-my-first-jobs-was-shelving-books-at-a-branch-of-the-chicago-public-library-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/robert-musil/quote/the-secret-of-a-good-librarian-is-that-he-never-reads-anything-more-of-the-literature-in-his-charge-than-the-title-and-the-table-of-contents-anyone-who-lets-himself-go-and-starts-reading-a-bo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/it-took-a-bit-of-popcorn-and-a-library-snack-bar-to-make-me-realize-that-being-a-librarian-was-about-more-than-just-giving-people-information-it-was-about-serving-a-community-and-if-the-commu 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sherman-alexie/quote/corliss-wondered-what-happens-to-a-book-that-sits-unread-on-a-library-shelf-for-thirty-years-can-a-book-rightfully-be-called-a-book-if-it-never-gets-readhow-many-books-never-get-checked-out-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/we-dont-have-to-destroy-the-library-of-the-past-we-just-need-to-give-it-a-face-lift 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/heather-brewer/quote/josss-ears-perked-up-he-loved-libraries-nowhere-else-in-the-world-felt-so-safe-and-homey-nowhere-else-smelled-like-books-and-dust-and-happy-solitude-quite-like-a-library-did 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-bukowski/quote/first-paycheck-i-get-i-thought-im-going-to-get-myself-a-room-near-the-downtown-la-public-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/killing-rats-wasnt-in-my-job-description 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/a-library-was-nothing-without-its-people-you-say-library-and-theres-this-iconoclastic-image-of-an-old-lady-librarian-telling-people-to-be-quiet-and-not-to-run-but-the-thing-was-that-lady-that 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/theres-something-deep-in-the-heart-of-every-person-that-wantsto-protect-culture-the-only-thing-about-my-pending-career-thatwas-changed-because-of-911-was-that-i-began-to-see-it-was-the-commun 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/f-scott-fitzgerald/quote/he-snatched-the-book-from-me-and-replaced-it-hastily-on-its-shelf-muttering-that-if-one-brick-was-removed-the-whole-library-was-liable-to-collapse 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hilary-thayer-hamann/quote/mr-odonnell-was-at-the-library-counter-performing-the-sort-of-grim-rituals-librarians-perform-with-index-cards-and-stumpy-pencils-and-those-rubber-stamps-with-columns-of-rotating-numbers-ms-a 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/samantha-young/quote/that-would-make-it-the-fifth-time-since-id-started-working-at-the-university-that-id-thrown-someone-out-of-one-of-those-rooms-for-inappropriate-behavior-and-they-say-a-library-is-a-boring-pla 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/finley-peter-dunne/quote/th-first-thing-to-have-in-a-libry-is-a-shelffrm-time-to-time-this-can-be-decorated-with-lithrachurebut-th-shelf-is-th-main-thing 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/to-be-great-at-something-you-must-look-to-the-great-ones-of-thepast-and-improve-on-the-ideas-and-techniques-that-they-started-iwas-motivated-to-do-better-to-improve-on-the-ideas-of-others 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/vera-brosgol/quote/why-cant-i-just-google-it-like-everything-else-i-hate-you-public-library-system 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laura-lippman/quote/theres-a-serendipity-to-real-life-that-the-internet-cant-duplicate-do-you-use-the-library-for-anything-well-sometimes-you-end-up-picking-up-the-book-next-to-the-one-you-were-looking-for-and-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ray-bradbury/quote/im-completely-library-educated-ive-never-been-to-college-i-went-down-to-the-library-when-i-was-in-grade-school-in-waukegan-and-in-high-school-in-los-angeles-and-spent-long-days-every-summer-i 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dorothy-l-sayers/quote/lord-peters-library-was-one-of-the-most-delightful-bachelor-rooms-in-london-its-scheme-was-black-and-primrose-its-walls-were-lined-with-rare-editions-and-its-chairs-and-chesterfield-sofa-sugg 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/randy-susan-meyers/quote/since-i-could-only-take-six-books-per-visit-from-the-library-i-had-to-time-it-right-or-id-be-stuck-on-sundays-rereading-the-five-readers-digest-condensed-books-sitting-on-our-red-laquered-liv 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/vicki-myron/quote/until-one-morning-one-of-the-coldest-mornings-of-the-year-when-i-came-in-with-the-book-cart-and-found-jean-hollis-clark-a-fellow-librarian-standing-dead-still-in-the-middle-of-the-staff-roomi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tao-lin/quote/but-then-his-parents-changed-a-year-of-california-had-changed-them-they-stopped-sending-money-greg-was-forced-to-go-out-into-the-world-to-interact-with-real-people-and-he-was-glad-of-this-he- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-douglas/quote/plenty-of-patrons-had-asked-me-strange-things-but-this-was-the-first-who-asked-me-where-my-car-was-parked-it-was-almost-comical-to-look-at-the-man-because-he-actually-thought-i-was-going-to-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gary-calamar/quote/the-record-store-was-a-place-of-escape-it-was-a-library-and-a-clubhouse-cameron-crowe-quoted 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eric-burns/quote/the-library-is-not-as-some-would-have-it-a-place-for-the-retiring-of-disposition-or-faint-of-heart-it-is-not-an-ivory-tower-or-a-quiet-room-in-a-sanitarium-facing-away-from-the-afternoon-sun- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/johnson-oconnor/quote/every-girl-who-aspires-ultimately-to-outfit-her-own-home-should-assemble-a-library-on-architectural-styles-and-on-furniture-both-traditional-and-modern-as-few-brides-can-buy-expensively-illus 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/syed-muhammad-naquib-al-attas/quote/the-international-institute-of-islamic-thought-and-civilization-istac-to-establish-a-superior-library-reflecting-the-religious-and-intellectual-traditions-both-of-the-islamic-and-western-civi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/wnp-barbellion/quote/the-porter-spends-his-days-in-the-library-keeping-strict-vigil-over-this-catacomb-of-books-passing-along-between-the-shelves-and-yet-never-paying-heed-to-the-almost-audible-susurrus-of-desire 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/martha-cooley/quote/with-a-little-effort-anything-can-be-shown-to-connect-with-anything-else-existence-is-infinitely-cross-referenced 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gary-calamar/quote/theres-a-vast-fraternity-of-record-collectors-and-the-record-store-was-their-hub-there-was-not-a-lot-of-information-on-these-groups-or-the-labels-so-youd-gather-there-and-it-would-be-like-a-l 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/genevieve-cogman/quote/she-remembered-the-conversation-in-the-library-as-forgetting-was-the-last-thing-a-fully-trained-librarian-should-do-memories-were-as-important-as-books-and-almost-as-important-as-proper-index 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/genevieve-cogman/quote/she-did-find-that-the-books-displayed-prominently-in-every-chamber-had-been-dusted-but-the-spines-were-pristine-and-uncreased-they-had-the-sad-untouched-air-of-literature-paraded-for-display- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/carrie-omaley/quote/many-of-my-friends-think-i-read-books-all-day-and-alphabetize-the-shelves-well-sometimes-i-do-alphabetize-shelves-but-more-often-than-not-my-job-title-could-be-friend-or-just-simply-caring-ea 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/judy-blume/quote/censors-dont-want-children-exposed-to-ideas-different-from-their-own-if-every-individual-with-an-agenda-had-hisher-way-the-shelves-in-the-school-library-would-be-close-to-empty 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/r-david-lankes/quote/every-day-librarians-enforce-copyright-policies-that-we-may-disagree-with-and-that-in-some-ways-run-contrary-to-the-values-of-our-profession-every-day-librarians-must-decide-between-a-desire- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/genevieve-cogman/quote/this-sense-of-possibility-might-not-last-of-course-nothing-ever-did-but-she-wasnt-going-to-spoil-it-by-looking-too-far-ahead-they-were-safe-in-the-library-and-the-library-would-endure 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/karalynne-mackrory/quote/elizabeth-laughed-and-pushed-her-fathers-shoulder-go-papa-and-be-kind-to-him-i-love-him-so-and-it-would-be-to-your-advantage-to-be-on-his-good-side-mr-bennet-raised-his-eyebrows-oh-and-why-is 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/liv-rider/quote/nik-loved-the-library-but-it-went-beyond-the-books-he-enjoyed-the-solitude-in-the-library-nobody-expected-him-to-be-strong-or-brave-or-daring-no-need-for-wrestling-to-prove-he-was-tougher-no- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/siri-hustvedt/quote/again-i-dont-fully-understand-my-emotion-response-to-the-library-or-trust-it-it-was-the-site-of-a-series-of-intellectual-revelations-that-were-crucial-to-me-not-just-as-a-student-but-as-a-hum 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/genevieve-cogman/quote/we-are-the-library-coppelia-pointed-out-what-we-dont-know-we-research 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ali-smith/quote/democracy-or-reading-democracy-of-space-our-public-library-tradition-wherever-we-live-in-the-wide-world-was-incredibly-hard-won-for-us-by-the-generations-before-us-and-ought-to-be-protected-n 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/neil-gaiman/quote/there-was-a-grumpy-librarian-in-the-library-i-could-tell-that-he-was-the-librarian-because-he-seemed-to-be-made-of-books-i-told-him-that-we-needed-information-and-he-got-us-some-butterfly-net 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jo-walton/quote/interlibrary-loans-are-a-wonder-of-the-world-and-a-glory-of-civilization-libraries-really-are-wonderful-theyre-better-than-bookshops-even-i-mean-bookshops-make-a-profit-on-selling-you-books-b 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marge-piercy/quote/they-found-the-library-sadly-lacking-in-texts-they-could-use 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nell-zink/quote/the-library-like-the-thrift-shop-specialised-in-the-leavings-of-the-elderly-dead 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tony-diterlizzi/quote/what-are-these-things-that-this-houses-eva-rovender-picked-up-a-crumbling-tome-he-handed-it-to-herthese-are-books-eva-said-as-the-yellowed-bits-of-paper-flaked-away-in-her-hands-to-rest-on-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tony-diterlizzi/quote/your-answers-lie-here-rovender-said-gesturing-around-the-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomm-quackenbush/quote/he-wouldnt-be-the-one-to-prove-to-the-world-that-there-was-an-afterlife-but-he-hoped-to-be-the-one-to-prove-it-to-himself-though-he-would-have-a-few-stern-questions-for-a-creator-who-made-peo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leslea-wahl/quote/the-only-reason-i-know-that-is-because-my-mom-made-it-the-alarm-code-at-the-library-i-quickly-explain-oops-i-say-covering-my-hand-with-my-handdont-worry-im-not-planning-on-breaking-in-and-ste 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-peterson/quote/lad-i-think-weve-got-what-we-need-for-this-page-why-dont-you-go-have-a-look-around-and-keep-out-of-trouble-or-that-madam-sidler-will-scare-you-silly-oskar-put-a-hand-to-the-side-of-his-mouth- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/caitlin-r-kiernan/quote/chance-wanting-to-defend-her-grandfather-but-not-about-to-leave-the-library-dustysafe-sanctuary-of-shelves-and-glass-cases-and-the-musty-smell-of-all-the-books-the-door-locked-from-the-inside 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/genevieve-cogman/quote/the-atmosphere-of-the-place-soothed-her-automatically-the-rich-lantern-lights-the-sheer-scent-of-paper-and-leather-and-the-fact-that-everywhere-she-looked-there-were-books-books-beautiful-boo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-kubica/quote/i-love-the-quietness-of-the-library-the-gateway-to-knowledge-to-the-french-language-and-medieval-history-and-hydraulic-engineering-and-fairy-tales-learning-in-a-very-primitive-form-books-some 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hester-young/quote/you-can-tell-a-lot-about-an-area-from-its-library-and-id-never-discount-the-usefulness-of-town-archives 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michelle-franklin/quote/a-library-always-housed-a-trove-of-undiscovered-friendships-and-forays-and-a-bookstore-a-place-where-those-temporary-connections-might-become-a-constancy-must-always-hold-a-charm-over-any-sch 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ellen-hopkins/quote/librarians-were-like-guardian-angels-with-graying-hair-and-beady-eyes-magnified-through-reading-glasses-and-always-read-to-recommend-new-literary-windows-to-gaze-through 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/there-are-almost-as-many-kinds-of-libraries-as-there-are-kinds-of-readers 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kimberly-karalius/quote/a-library-no-matter-how-big-or-small-is-a-careful-balance-of-love-and-responsibility-a-machine-if-you-will-cranked-by-those-who-care-most-about-reading 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sergio-troncoso/quote/i-exercised-my-mental-muscles-in-the-library-and-lo-and-behold-i-transformed-myself-from-a-casual-reader-into-a-focused-one-so-it-was-more-than-just-free-books-but-also-free-space-and-a-cultu 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/anatole-france/quote/each-one-dreams-the-dream-of-life-in-his-own-way-i-have-dreamed-it-in-my-library-and-when-the-hour-shall-come-in-which-i-must-leave-this-world-may-it-please-god-to-take-me-from-my-ladder-from 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/scott-hawkins/quote/in-the-library-you-took-your-good-times-where-you-could-find-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alice-hoffman/quote/i-only-had-access-to-him-when-we-were-together-in-the-library-and-i-loved-them-both-the-library-and-my-father-equally-and-without-question 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/henry-wadsworth-longfellow/quote/the-student-has-his-rome-his-whole-glowing-italy-within-the-four-walls-of-his-library-he-has-in-his-books-the-ruins-of-an-antique-world-and-the-glories-of-a-modern-one 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jose-latour/quote/in-common-with-librarians-the-world-over-the-two-women-were-used-to-dealing-with-a-disproportionate-quota-of-odd-people-acting-strangely 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kaza-kingsley/quote/he-pointed-the-scepter-around-the-library-and-had-an-instant-input-of-all-of-the-books-that-were-there-into-his-brain-as-if-he-had-read-them-all-at-once 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/josh-hanagarne/quote/an-old-librarian-once-said-to-me-whatever-we-deal-with-coming-here-is-always-a-visual-reward 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tyrean-martinson/quote/once-upon-a-time-in-a-basement-library-nooki-stumbled-upon-my-first-favorite-bookpulled-into-adventure-as-the-pages-unfurledi-found-treasures-greater-than-gold-or-pearls 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/peter-gellatly/quote/we-find-the-library-world-like-the-real-world-impossible-to-understand-on-a-rational-basis-we-turn-then-to-the-outer-reaches-of-our-mind-and-treat-librarianship-with-the-irrationality-that-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/you-cannot-have-a-really-terrific-library-without-at-least-one-terrific-librarian-the-way-you-cannot-have-a-really-terrific-bedroom-unless-you-can-lock-the-door 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pasi-ilmari-jaaskelainen/quote/everybody-comes-to-the-library-naked-thats-why-they-come-here-to-dress-themselves-in-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alexei-maxim-russell/quote/perhaps-katrine-in-a-library-just-like-this-one-you-will-find-that-all-the-things-you-thought-were-impossible-and-all-the-things-that-everyone-throughout-history-have-thought-were-impossible- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andrew-smith/quote/history-shows-that-an-examination-of-the-personal-collection-of-titles-in-any-mans-library-will-provide-something-of-a-glimpse-into-his-soul 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/indu-muralidharan/quote/fourteen-is-the-age-when-time-first-starts-to-make-its-presence-felt-time-took-on-such-a-variety-of-hues-in-those-days-that-even-my-frozen-mind-sometimes-reflected-the-colours-of-the-world-ar 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lev-grossman/quote/the-library-was-still-giving-trouble-a-few-books-in-some-of-the-more-obscure-corners-of-the-stacks-retained-some-autonomy-dating-back-to-an-infamous-early-experiment-with-flying-books-and-lat 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-morley/quote/we-have-all-sorts-of-conditions-of-booksellers-one-is-fanatic-on-the-subject-of-libraries-he-thinks-that-every-public-library-should-be-dynamited-another-thinks-that-moving-pictures-will-dest 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jack-iams/quote/harriet-to-hide-her-excitement-had-turned-to-the-bookshelves-in-the-corner-between-the-windows-and-the-fireplace-the-books-untidily-arranged-some-standing-some-piled-on-their-sides-with-newsp 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/caitlin-moran/quote/in-the-end-i-go-where-i-always-go-when-i-need-information-on-something-baffling-poisonous-or-terrifying-the-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gina-sheridan/quote/i-will-tell-everyone-i-know-to-come-to-the-library-this-place-saves-lives 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gina-sheridan/quote/i-stubbed-my-toe-just-as-someone-dropped-a-book-into-the-inside-drop-box-as-i-yelped-and-howled-in-pain-a-child-on-the-other-side-said-mommy-i-think-we-hurt-the-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/zia-haider-rahman/quote/an-exile-said-zafar-is-a-refugee-with-a-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/padma-venkatraman/quote/the-library-was-my-only-blessing-every-time-i-climbed-the-stairs-my-heart-lifted-all-day-i-looked-forward-to-the-happy-hours-i-spent-in-that-beautiful-room-my-guilt-over-appas-fate-was-too-he 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gina-sheridan/quote/i-refuse-to-use-the-computers-if-google-is-on-themlibrarian-okay-librarian-librarian-enjoy-your-day 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tatyana-eckstrand/quote/i-have-always-imagined-that-paradise-will-be-some-kind-of-library-jorge-luis-borges-poems-of-the-gifts 2026-10-23T17:31:40+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gina-sheridan/quote/do-you-ever-hide-books-youve-read-over-and-over-again-because-youre-so-sick-of-themoh-definitely-when-they-ask-for-them-i-say-the-book-fairy-came-to-get-it-one-time-they-saw-one-of-the-books- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sd-chrostowska/quote/on-less-lucid-evenings-every-library-is-a-haunted-cemetery 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tatyana-eckstrand/quote/blaming-the-library-for-exposure-to-pornography-is-like-blaming-the-lake-if-your-child-walks-up-to-it-alone-falls-in-and-then-drowns-david-sawyer-spokesman-review-18-december-2000 2026-10-23T17:21:08+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jane-austen/quote/marianne-who-had-the-knack-of-finding-her-way-in-every-house-to-the-library-however-it-might-be-avoided-by-the-family-in-general-soon-procured-herself-a-book 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tatyana-eckstrand/quote/i-deserve-a-swift-kick-in-the-shorts-for-all-the-times-ive-stubbornly-wound-my-way-through-the-library-stacks-my-mule-head-leading-the-way-searching-fruitlessly-for-information-a-librarian-co 2026-10-23T17:40:07+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/richard-louv/quote/there-is-a-canyon-within-a-reasonable-distance-of-nearly-every-school-in-the-city-elaine-brooks-pointed-out-what-an-exciting-prospect-she-said-a-network-of-natural-libraries-for-teaching-chil 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mj-rose/quote/the-library-at-home-when-she-was-child-had-been-her-refuge-she-gravitated-to-it-when-she-was-anxious-just-taking-a-book-of-a-shelf-calmed-her-opening-the-cover-feeling-the-papers-smoothness-s 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rachel-cohen/quote/the-institution-that-had-the-greatest-effect-on-berensons-education-was-the-boston-public-library-the-first-in-the-country-that-allowed-people-to-take-books-home-to-read-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marion-jensen/quote/lets-go-downtown-dad-said-by-the-public-library-you-never-know-what-wild-and-crazy-things-might-be-happening-at-the-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gina-sheridan/quote/note-found-in-the-patron-suggestion-boxyou-have-signs-up-near-the-computers-that-say-be-quiet-but-people-dont-be-quiet-they-laugh-out-loud-and-talk-out-loud-libraries-used-to-be-quiet-but-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ray-bradbury/quote/intervieweryoure-self-educated-arent-youbradburyyes-i-am-im-completely-library-educated-ive-never-been-to-college-i-went-down-to-the-library-when-i-was-in-grade-school-in-waukegan-and-in-high 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/garrett-leigh/quote/he-liked-bookstores-and-libraries-too-they-had-a-sacred-peaceful-hush-like-graveyards-without-the-shadow-of-death 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/victoria-kahler/quote/you-have-that-look-on-your-face-she-whispered-mockingly-that-beast-just-gave-beauty-a-whole-frickin-library-look-and-now-shes-going-to-spin-around-like-she-can-read-them-all-at-once-through-o 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/yone-noguchi/quote/i-hurried-to-the-city-library-to-find-out-the-true-age-of-chicago-city-library-after-all-it-cannot-be-anything-but-chicagoesque-his-is-the-richest-library-no-doubt-as-everything-in-chicago-is 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nora-roberts/quote/planting-a-flowers-like-opening-a-book-because-either-way-youre-starting-something-and-your-gardens-your-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alan-gibson/quote/defending-the-library-service-from-the-predations-of-ideologically-motivated-public-schoolboys-who-had-immensely-privileged-childhoods-isnt-whining-it-is-the-pursuit-of-passionately-held-beli 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-finch/quote/the-bodleian-above-anything-else-made-oxford-what-it-was-there-was-something-incommunicably-grand-about-it-something-difficult-to-understand-unless-you-had-spent-your-evenings-there-or-walked 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jennifer-estep/quote/i-was-so-getting-tired-of-fighting-for-my-life-in-the-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joe-hill/quote/if-books-were-girls-and-reading-was-s-ss-ssss-fucking-this-would-be-the-biggest-whorehouse-in-the-county-and-id-be-the-most-ruthless-pimp-you-ever-met-whap-the-girls-on-the-butts-and-send-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/amy-fellner-dominy/quote/anyone-who-thinks-this-world-is-without-magic-hasnt-been-to-a-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/brent-crawford/quote/my-heart-skips-a-beat-seriously-like-a-cd-from-the-public-library-it-goes-zzebbttt-and-skips 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lisa-kleypas/quote/standing-before-the-worn-books-and-dusty-shelves-she-seemed-like-a-ray-of-light-in-the-windowless-room 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kristen-ashley/quote/the-library-serves-as-a-gathering-place-for-friends-whoshare-the-love-of-books-it-further-serves-as-a-resource-for-those-who-escape-the-pressure-of-everydaylife-doing-it-by-losing-themselves- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/a-letter-may-be-coded-and-a-word-may-be-coded-a-theatrical-performance-may-be-coded-and-a-sonnet-may-be-coded-and-there-are-times-when-it-seems-the-entire-world-is-in-code-some-believe-that-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/george-macdonald/quote/a-library-cannot-be-made-all-at-once-any-more-than-a-house-or-a-nation-or-a-tree-they-must-all-take-time-to-grow-and-so-must-a-library-i-wouldnt-even-know-what-books-to-go-and-ask-for-i-dare- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-virginia-provines/quote/there-is-a-somewhat-time-worn-joke-about-people-taking-up-library-work-because-they-like-to-read-the-joke-consisting-of-the-fact-that-librarians-have-so-little-time-to-read-but-i-tell-you-tho 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-virginia-provines/quote/someone-has-said-of-books-that-they-are-our-amplest-heritages-of-thought-and-so-they-are-that-doesnt-necessarily-mean-that-they-must-be-learned-or-profound-they-are-food-for-the-mind-and-diff 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/regina-omelveny/quote/yet-there-in-the-library-hamish-and-i-climbed-the-bright-ladder-of-the-body-as-if-it-were-sky-and-we-a-deafening-twisting-flock-of-birds-that-could-never-fall-to-earth 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charlotte-m-vaile/quote/it-was-an-epoch-of-her-life-an-hour-never-to-be-forgotten-this-first-coming-into-relation-with-a-really-noble-library 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lemony-snicket/quote/every-time-you-enter-a-library-you-might-say-to-yourself-the-world-is-quiet-here-as-a-sort-of-pledge-proclaiming-reading-to-be-the-greater-good 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/elizabeth-hunter/quote/oh-wowwhat-do-you-thinki-tried-to-imagine-but-i-meanits-so-much-more-think-its-large-enough-to-keep-you-satisfied-for-a-whileits-so-much-bigger-than-i-expectedhe-backed-away-leaving-beatrice- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mark-pryor/quote/if-peace-had-a-smellit-would-be-the-smell-of-a-library-full-of-old-leather-bound-books 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jean-m-twenge/quote/every-time-i-went-to-the-library-it-felt-like-a-treasure-hunt-somewhere-amid-those-dusty-books-was-the-answer-and-all-i-had-to-do-was-find-it 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jodi-meadows/quote/sam-hauled-open-the-library-doorthere-you-are-whit-pushed-up-from-the-desk-hed-been-hunched-over-we-thought-you-two-had-given-up-on-usunlike-some-people-i-know-i-said-removing-my-mittens-and- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/justin-cronin/quote/zander-was-always-sneaking-off-to-the-library-to-get-more-books-guy-would-read-anything-said-books-were-more-interesting-than-people 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/darryl-pinckney/quote/some-books-you-never-get-over-like-a-first-love-some-books-that-made-an-enormous-impression-on-you-when-you-were-young-you-are-afraid-to-read-again-years-later-like-being-sorry-you-met-that-f 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/steve-leveen/quote/john-armato-a-public-relations-executive-cherishes-his-growing-library-of-candidates-when-people-ask-him-if-hes-actually-read-all-those-books-he-asks-them-if-theyve-actually-eaten-all-the-foo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/edward-bellamy/quote/i-cannot-sufficiently-celebrate-the-glorious-liberty-that-reigns-in-the-public-libraries-of-the-twentieth-century-as-compared-with-the-intolerable-management-of-those-of-the-nineteenth-centur 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/walter-benjamin/quote/and-the-non-reading-of-books-you-will-object-should-be-characteristic-of-all-collectors-this-is-news-to-me-you-may-say-it-is-not-news-at-all-experts-will-bear-me-out-when-i-say-that-it-is-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/ted-klein/quote/she-took-particular-comfort-in-certain-familiar-sights-and-sounds-that-marked-her-day-the-buzz-of-the-fluorescent-lights-the-pale-figures-sprawled-silent-and-motionless-over-their-reading-the 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/trenton-lee-stewart/quote/somhow-those-ten-men-at-the-time-they-were-called-recruiters-of-course-discovered-that-constance-had-been-at-the-library-most-likely-one-of-their-informants-saw-her-come-out-because-it-was-on 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lavie-tidhar/quote/for-one-crazy-moment-he-had-the-notion-of-a-vanished-tribe-of-librarians-lost-in-the-deep-underground-caverns-of-the-bodleian-a-wild-and-savage-tribe-that-fed-on-unwary-travellers 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/balqis-suja/quote/it-is-fascinating-that-baghdad-had-more-than-100-public-libraries-in-the-year-891-cordoba-had-70-public-libraries-at-the-end-of-10th-century-while-the-royal-library-of-caliph-al-aziz-in-the-y 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/a-mans-life-is-of-more-value-than-a-womans-it-has-larger-issues-wider-scope-greater-ambitions-our-lives-revolve-in-curves-of-emotions-it-is-upon-lines-of-intellect-that-a-mans-life-progresses 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/i-can-now-recreate-life-in-a-way-that-was-hidden-from-me-beforea-dream-of-form-in-days-of-thought 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/what-nonsense-people-talk-about-happy-marriages-exclaimed-lord-henry-a-man-can-be-happy-with-any-woman-as-long-as-he-does-not-love-her 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/he-would-never-again-tempt-innocence-he-would-be-good 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/my-salome-is-a-mystic-the-sister-of-salammbo-a-saint-therese-who-worships-the-moon 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/poor-aubrey-i-hope-he-will-get-all-right-he-brought-a-strangely-new-personality-to-english-art-and-was-a-master-in-his-way-of-fantastic-grace-and-the-charm-of-the-unreal-his-muse-had-moods-of 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/what-odd-chaps-you-painters-are-you-do-anything-in-the-world-to-gain-a-reputation-as-soon-as-you-have-one-you-seem-to-want-to-throw-it-away-it-is-silly-of-you-for-there-is-only-one-thing-in-t 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/walter-hamilton/quote/oscar-wilde-was-born-in-dublin-on-the-15th-october-1856-so-that-he-is-now-about-twenty-six-years-of-age-but-brief-as-has-been-his-career-it-has-been-full-of-promise-for-the-future-the-son-of- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/she-lives-in-the-poetry-she-cannot-write 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/anybody-can-have-common-sense-povided-that-they-have-no-imagination 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/but-do-let-us-go-dorian-you-must-not-stay-here-any-longer-it-is-not-good-for-ones-morals-to-see-bad-acting 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/dorian-dorian-she-cried-before-i-knew-you-acting-was-the-one-reality-of-my-life-it-was-only-in-the-theatre-that-i-lived-i-thought-that-it-was-all-true-i-was-rosalind-one-night-and-portia-the- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/he-repeated-her-name-over-and-over-again-the-birds-that-were-singing-in-the-dew-drenched-garden-seemed-to-be-telling-the-flowers-about-her 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/i-will-love-you-always-because-you-will-always-be-worthy-of-love 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/i-love-talking-about-nothing-father-it-is-the-only-thing-i-know-anything-about 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/indeed-as-a-rule-everybody-turns-out-to-be-somebody-else 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/ah-that-is-the-great-thing-in-life-to-live-the-truth 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/i-have-forgotten-all-about-my-school-days-i-have-a-vague-impression-that-they-were-detestable 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/charles-hamilton-sorley/quote/england-is-seen-at-its-worst-when-it-has-to-deal-with-men-like-wilde-in-germany-wilde-and-byron-are-appreciated-as-authors-in-england-they-still-go-pecking-about-their-love-affairs-anyone-who 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/gavin-g-smith/quote/du-bois-sighed-theatrically-its-as-if-oscar-wilde-never-died-for-our-sins 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/there-were-poisons-so-subtle-that-to-know-their-properties-one-had-to-sicken-of-them-there-were-maladies-so-strange-that-one-had-to-pass-through-them-if-one-sought-to-understand-their-nature 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/roberta-pearce/quote/those-were-my-last-words-to-be-listed-in-some-book-of-quotations-alphabetically-after 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/my-doctor-says-i-must-not-have-any-serious-conversation-after-seven-oclock-it-makes-me-talk-in-my-sleep 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/do-you-want-to-kill-his-love-for-you-what-sort-of-existence-will-he-have-if-you-rob-him-of-the-fruits-of-his-ambition-if-you-take-him-from-the-splendour-of-a-great-political-career-if-you-clo 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/thought-and-language-are-to-the-artist-instruments-of-an-artvice-and-virtue-are-the-artists-materials-for-an-art-from-the-point-of-view-of-form-the-type-of-all-the-arts-is-the-art-of-the-musi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/he-was-a-man-of-most-subtle-and-refined-intellect-a-man-of-culture-charm-and-distinction-one-of-the-most-intellectual-men-i-ever-meti-prefer-a-gentlemanly-fool-any-day-there-is-more-to-be-sai 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/james-minter/quote/the-optimist-sees-the-doughnut-but-the-pessimist-see-452-calories-and-a-shed-load-of-sugar 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-levithan/quote/all-the-quips-in-the-world-couldnt-prevent-oscar-wilde-from-becoming-a-lovesick-fool 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/the-drawback-of-stealing-a-thing-is-that-one-never-knows-how-wonderful-the-thing-that-one-steals-is 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/marriage-is-a-matter-for-common-sensebut-women-who-have-common-sense-are-so-curiously-plain-father-arent-they-of-course-i-only-speak-from-heresayno-woman-plain-or-pretty-has-any-common-sense- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mary-ann-shaffer/quote/oh-bless-speranza-for-giving-her-son-such-a-preposterous-name-as-oscar-fingal-oflahertie-wills-wilde 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/johnny-rich/quote/to-lose-one-parent-might-be-considered-a-misfortune-or-a-reason-to-deny-gods-existence-at-the-least-to-lose-two-looks-like-he-may-be-up-to-something 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/paulette-mahurin/quote/de-profundis-by-oscar-wilde-this-excerpt-inspired-my-book-the-persecution-of-mildred-dunlap-wilde-wrote-it-to-his-lover-while-in-prisonwhen-first-i-was-put-into-prison-some-people-advised-me- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/oscar-wilde/quote/yet-ruled-he-not-long-so-great-had-been-his-suffering-and-so-bitter-the-fire-of-his-testing-for-after-the-space-of-three-years-he-died-and-he-who-came-after-him-ruled-evilly 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/rick-riordan/quote/it-doesnt-matter-if-they-hate-you-or-embarrass-you-or-simply-dont-appreciate-your-genius-for-inventing-the-internet-you-invented-the-inte 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kami-garcia/quote/aunt-prue-was-holding-one-of-the-squirrels-in-her-hand-while-it-sucked-ferociously-on-the-end-of-the-dropper-and-once-a-day-we-have-ta-clean-their-little-private-parts-with-a-q-tip-so-theyll- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarah-ockler/quote/everyone-says-that-the-internet-is-so-awesome-because-you-can-connect-with-people-from-all-over-the-world-but-i-think-its-the-opposite-the-internet-doesnt-make-it-easier-to-connect-with-anyon 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/michael-grant/quote/he-found-a-set-of-encyclopedias-like-wikipedia-but-paper-and-very-bulky 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/alyson-noel/quote/i-did-google-him-you-knowoh-so-you-googled-him-oh-well-that-changes-everything-then-doesnt-it-what-could-i-possibly-worry-about-now-that-i-know-youve-conducted-such-a-thorough-internet-search 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stephen-emond/quote/im-on-the-internet-i-stay-informed-they-let-old-people-on-the-internet-you-know 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dave-eggers/quote/i-mean-all-this-stuff-youre-involved-in-its-all-gossip-its-people-talking-about-each-other-behind-their-backs-thats-the-vast-majority-of-this-social-media-all-these-reviews-all-these-comments 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/china-mieville/quote/my-google-fu-is-strong 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sebastyne-young/quote/my-blog-is-a-collection-of-answers-people-dont-want-to-hear-to-questions-they-didnt-ask 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/marc-stiegler/quote/in-the-information-age-the-first-step-to-sanity-is-filtering-filter-the-information-extract-for-knowledgefilter-first-for-substance-filter-second-for-significance-these-filters-protect-agains 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/clay-shirky/quote/a-wikipedia-article-is-a-process-not-a-product 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eli-pariser/quote/personalization-is-based-on-a-bargain-in-exchange-for-the-service-of-filtering-you-hand-large-companies-an-enormous-amount-of-data-about-your-daily-life-much-of-whic-you-might-not-trust-your- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/noah-cicero/quote/the-party-at-the-bar-was-for-an-internet-literary-journal-that-prints-a-hard-copy-version-that-was-famous-in-the-world-of-internet-literary-journals-that-prints-hard-copy-versions-what-that-m 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/john-mariotti/quote/we-worried-for-decades-about-wmds-weapons-of-mass-destruction-now-it-is-time-to-worry-about-a-new-kind-of-wmds-weapons-of-mass-disruption 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eli-pariser/quote/1973-fair-information-practices-you-should-know-who-has-your-personal-data-what-data-they-have-and-how-it-is-used-you-should-be-able-to-prevent-information-collected-about-you-for-one-purpose 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/dan-slater/quote/in-2011-mark-brooks-a-consultant-to-online-dating-companies-published-the-results-of-an-industry-survey-titled-how-has-internet-dating-changed-society-the-survey-responses-from-39-executives- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/clay-shirky/quote/because-wikipedia-is-a-process-not-a-product-it-replaces-guarantees-offered-by-institutions-with-probabilities-supported-by-process 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jonathan-maberry/quote/the-economy-blows-or-dont-you-read-the-paperswho-reads-the-fucking-papers-news-is-free-on-the-internet 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/audacia-ray/quote/the-internet-is-not-so-different-from-a-highly-interactive-videogame-with-competitors-set-to-be-offed 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/clay-shirky/quote/the-basic-capabilities-of-tools-like-flickr-reverse-the-old-order-of-group-activity-transforming-gather-then-share-into-share-then-gather 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/becky-albertalli/quote/i-think-the-way-i-feel-about-the-internet-is-the-way-some-people-feel-about-the-ocean-its-so-huge-and-unknowable-but-also-totally-predictable-you-type-a-line-of-symbols-and-click-enter-and-ev 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/yuval-noah-harari/quote/in-the-past-censorship-worked-by-blocking-the-flow-of-information-in-the-21st-century-censorship-works-by-flooding-people-with-irrelevant-information-people-just-dont-know-what-to-pay-attenti 2026-10-23T11:50:21+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jamie-bartlett/quote/creating-our-own-realities-is-nothing-new-but-now-its-easier-than-ever-to-become-trapped-in-echo-chambers-of-our-own-making 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jamie-bartlett/quote/part-of-living-in-a-free-society-is-accepting-that-no-idea-is-beyond-being-challenged-or-ridiculed-and-that-nothing-is-more-stifling-to-free-expression-than-being-afraid-to-upset-or-offend 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jamie-bartlett/quote/rule-36-there-is-always-more-fucked-up-shit-than-what-you-just-saw 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-cronenberg/quote/to-not-be-photographed-daily-even-by-oneself-to-not-be-recorded-and-videoed-and-dispersed-into-the-turbulent-winds-of-the-net-was-to-court-nonexistence 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jp-delaney/quote/were-all-connected-now-i-think-as-i-send-it-off-into-cyberspace-everyone-and-everything 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-vincent/quote/since-the-1970s-there-has-been-a-continual-tendency-to-over-estimate-the-surveillance-capacities-of-new-technologies-in-the-sense-of-the-physical-invasion-of-privacy-surveillance-comprises-fi 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/torkel-brekke/quote/does-this-mean-that-religious-consumption-will-increase-online-that-could-be-we-do-not-know-yet-but-to-expect-religion-to-disappear-because-of-online-technology-is-like-expecting-people-to-st 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/hl-wegley/quote/we-need-to-be-wise-consumers-of-information-in-an-age-of-artificially-created-reality-written-by-professional-propagandists-bought-and-paid-for-by-special-interests-who-many-times-disguise-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-cronenberg/quote/i-apologize-to-my-priestess-i-underestimated-her-i-equated-her-with-the-global-media-which-is-where-i-found-those-easily-digestible-raw-materials-for-my-banal-and-bourgeois-account-of-my-life 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/laurence-scott/quote/millions-of-us-daily-take-advantage-of-skype-delighted-to-carry-the-severed-heads-of-family-members-under-our-arms-as-we-move-from-the-deck-to-the-cool-of-inside-or-steering-them-around-our-n 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kenneth-eade/quote/he-didnt-have-regular-email-like-everyone-else-he-couldnt-afford-that-digital-fingerprint-that-the-nsa-the-cia-the-fbi-and-all-the-other-espionage-alphabeticals-counted-on-for-their-privacy-b 2026-10-23T17:07:46+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jarett-kobek/quote/the-internet-was-a-wonderful-invention-it-was-a-computer-network-which-people-used-to-remind-other-people-that-they-were-awful-pieces-of-shit 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/meredith-katz/quote/he-tried-to-look-up-more-about-magical-curses-online-but-as-usual-the-internet-wasnt-a-huge-help-and-mostly-just-its-best-to-convince-him-he-was-about-to-die-only-human-by-meredith-katz 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/aziz-ansari/quote/thats-the-thing-about-the-internet-it-doesnt-simply-help-us-find-the-best-thing-out-there-it-has-helped-to-produce-the-idea-that-there-is-a-best-thing-and-if-we-search-hard-enough-we-can-find 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/austin-kleon/quote/the-best-way-to-vanquish-your-enemies-on-the-internet-ignore-them 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jason-gay/quote/in-theory-the-internet-provides-an-opportunity-to-widen-knowledge-to-see-beyond-screens-and-neighborhoods-into-a-broader-universe-and-yet-the-first-thing-many-people-want-to-do-is-wall-themse 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/stanley-victor-paskavich/quote/a-lot-of-people-are-on-the-internet-searching-for-fifteen-minutes-of-fame-ive-been-on-it-so-long-and-so-often-im-looking-for-fifteen-minutes-of-freedom 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/felicia-day/quote/compuserve-and-it-was-not-sophisticated-guys-it-was-the-cave-painting-equivalent-to-tumblr 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/chris-bloor/quote/technology-itself-is-not-to-blame-the-fault-lies-in-ourselves-because-having-no-means-to-orient-ourselves-we-turn-elsewhere-towards-other-resources-heidegger-makes-the-point-that-our-culture- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/matt-ruff/quote/described-the-internet-as-a-series-of-intestines-laid-out-by-a-goatherds-son-spewing-bile-at-both-ends 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/felicia-day/quote/you-can-feel-the-wave-of-emotion-online-when-something-is-about-to-go-viral-good-or-bad-a-scientist-i-met-once-mathematically-compared-internet-behavior-to-swarm-behavior-seen-in-starlings-or 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/will-advise/quote/if-you-have-half-a-nothing-sell-it-for-a-double-something-resell-half-at-double-price-and-buy-another-something-and-a-half-how-much-nothing-will-you-have-two-days-from-then-like-three-because 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jim-gilliam/quote/each-one-of-us-is-a-creator-and-together-we-are-the-creator 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jim-gilliam/quote/if-god-is-humanity-connected-then-the-internet-is-god-incarnate-a-manifestation-of-our-connection-a-rudimentary-form-of-hyperconnected-humanity 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/julie-lawson-timmer/quote/scotts-friends-on-the-forum-didnt-know-his-big-picture-they-read-a-phrase-like-its-going-to-kill-me-to-live-without-him-for-its-precise-meaning-and-nothing-else-they-didnt-read-more-than-thos 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/deborah-meyler/quote/you-know-what-ive-always-done-is-take-a-look-through-a-book-look-at-the-paper-stock-the-printing-the-publisher-the-actual-content-and-taking-everything-into-account-i-price-it-and-now-i-cant- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/jeff-vandermeer/quote/the-idea-that-a-dysfunctional-thought-could-take-root-in-a-vacuum-the-individual-anonymous-and-wraithlike-unknowable-because-especially-at-first-he-or-she-had-no-interaction-with-other-people 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joshua-ferris/quote/she-no-longer-lived-in-a-world-of-speculation-or-recall-and-would-take-nothing-on-faith-when-the-facts-were-but-a-few-clicks-away-it-drove-me-nuts-i-was-sick-to-death-of-having-as-my-dinner-c 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/chad-wellmon/quote/new-technologies-be-it-the-printed-encyclopedia-or-wikipedia-are-not-abstract-machines-that-independently-render-us-stupid-or-smart-as-we-saw-with-enlightenment-reading-technologies-knowledge 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-chiles/quote/it-is-proper-netiquette-to-watch-television-online-via-native-app-when-using-mobile 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/kenneth-eade/quote/it-was-as-impersonal-as-the-internet-itself-the-object-responsible-for-connecting-you-to-long-lost-people-in-your-life-and-many-new-ones-none-of-whom-you-will-ever-see 2026-10-23T17:32:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/andy-seven/quote/the-information-superhighway-is-littered-with-so-much-roadkill 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/pedro-hugo-garcia-pelaez/quote/never-underestimate-a-viral-trend-on-the-internet 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/sarah-lotz/quote/are-we-all-at-heart-just-internet-trolls 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/christopher-bollen/quote/if-the-internet-were-planet-earth-the-amount-of-space-devoted-to-pregnancies-motherhood-infants-and-toddlers-would-surely-fill-a-continent-of-course-the-internet-had-an-enormous-investment-in 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/david-cronenberg/quote/the-internet-is-now-a-forum-for-public-prosecution 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/diane-helbig/quote/with-the-explosion-of-the-internet-has-come-numerous-avenues-for-small-business-owners-to-share-their-expertise-and-position-themselves-as-experts-and-expertise-is-what-consumers-are-looking- 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/mahesh-poudyal/quote/when-the-internet-came-in-hulaki-became-a-dinosaur 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/joshua-ferris/quote/i-was-already-at-one-remove-before-the-internet-came-along-i-need-another-remove-now-i-have-to-spend-the-time-that-im-not-doing-the-thing-theyre-doing-reading-about-them-doing-it-streaming-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/catharina-ingelman-sundberg/quote/now-everything-is-sold-on-the-internet-and-anybody-at-all-who-doesnt-know-a-thing-can-give-their-opinion 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/thomm-quackenbush/quote/all-this-electromagnetic-pollution-in-the-air-from-the-internet-and-cell-phones-it-cuts-you-off-from-god 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/eli-pariser/quote/your-computer-monitor-is-a-kind-a-one-way-mirror-reflecting-your-own-interests-while-algorithmic-observers-watch-what-you-click 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/lauren-barnholdt/quote/i-mean-scamming-on-guys-on-the-internet-i-thought-that-was-only-for-forty-year-old-divorcees-who-photoshop-their-pictures-in-an-effort-to-appear-younger-and-thinner 2026-10-23T15:07:18+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/nicola-lagioia/quote/the-first-move-was-to-turn-to-the-one-great-perfectly-visible-and-certified-revolution-in-the-recent-history-of-the-human-race-the-google-search-engine 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/bryant-a-loney/quote/this-jeweled-coast-does-not-shine-for-its-gems-are-coated-with-grit 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/shirley-jump/quote/you-know-youre-about-as-forthcoming-as-a-mime 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/tom-larcombe/quote/is-there-anyone-nearby-you-can-speak-to-without-wordsi-dont-know-i-only-know-that-there-are-those-whose-minds-i-can-speak-with-that-when-i-show-them-how-speak-back-to-my-mind-as-well 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/fredrik-backman/quote/ove-gives-the-box-a-skeptical-glance-as-if-its-a-highly-dubious-sort-of-box-a-box-that-rides-a-scooter-and-wears-tracksuit-pants-and-just-called-ove-my-friend-before-offering-to-sell-him-a-wa 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 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https://atomicquote.com/author/aristotle/quote/it-is-a-great-thing-indeed-to-make-a-proper-use-of-the-poetical-forms-as-also-of-compounds-and-strange-words-but-the-greatest-thing-by-far-is-to-be-a-master-of-metaphor-it-is-the-one-thing-th 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/leslie-jamison/quote/metaphors-are-tiny-saviors-leading-the-way-out-of-sentimentality-small-disciples-of-pound-urging-say-it-new-say-it-new-its-hard-for-emotion-to-feel-flat-if-its-language-is-suitably-novel-to-f 2026-10-23T04:29:31+00:00 https://atomicquote.com/author/s-kelley-harrell/quote/we-are-all-but-symbols-of-some-greater-thing-totems-of-ourselves-subject-to-change-and-growth-when-we-forget-that-metaphoric-sense-of-ourselves-we-lose-sight-of-the-overall-path 2026-10-23T11:34:35+00:00 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