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James Wolcott
Related You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The 'day after' begins today, and the peace process between Israel and the Palestinians goes into a ... ALUF BENN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES As the class struggle sharpens in the U.S. Marxism will come into its own as a great popular study. C. L. R. JAMES One side of me is very busy paying attention to the details of life, the humanity of people, catchin... ORHAN PAMUK The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distr... THOMAS FULLER The Figure Eight division was re-established in 2004 as a fun, economical class. Points are not tall... ANDREW HARPELL I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distr... THOMAS FULLER A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ... LIONEL TRILLING Pointing a gun at a strong-minded person is just as inconvenient as wearing a bifocal. There are two... DAUGLAS DAUGLAS Once, there was a time in Jerusalem of brotherhood and peace: cultures and languages lived side by s... YITZHAK NAVON Trust is like a two-way mirror, transparent on one side, with a blind dimness unable to see through ... ANTHONY LICCIONE I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I think this is one bad side of a mirror; it helps us to see the reflection of the effects of our ow... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA The Wise
(Minstrel or Sage,) out of their books are clay;
But in their books, as from their gr... EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON In the '50s, listening to Elvis and others on the radio in Bombay - it didn't feel alien. No... SALMAN RUSHDIE Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause ... ADOLF HITLER Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb. CHARLES BUKOWSKI Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in dis... THOMAS FULLER Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the other is in dis... THOMAS FULLER The last class of my old professor's life took place once a week in his house, by a window in the st... MITCH ALBOM As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON Most people do not mind dying, as long as that does not happen today. MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Comedy is a reflection. We create nothing. We set no styles, no standards. We're reflections. It... ALAN KING [The rebuilding efforts ahead will take place in the White House as well as along the Gulf Coast, sa... BRUCE BUCHANAN But that's always the way, isn't it? It's easy to be sensible for other people, but you can't always... ALEX SHEARER Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including... RANDALL L. STEPHENSON I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The ... RON WOOD You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The Internet creates a whole new market and almost a whole new pricing. You have a series of prices ... RICHARD DAVIES New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has e... EDMUND WHITE Every woman that dies or loses her baby on a threadbare cot in the heart of Uganda, while her sister... LEILA JANAH We need a new momentum, a new impetus, on the political side, JAVIER SOLANA Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a c... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE The M-Class has had a lot of problems since its launch. The rate of deterioration on the E-Class is ... JOE IVERS I was brought up by the English side of my family, who are very repressed and working class. Absolut... BAT FOR LASHES A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab... JOHN GREEN . . . the press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting... EUGENE V. DEBS Conrad is a huge loss to our side and the entire squad really feels for him. You can't easily replac... GREG COOPER The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE Silence. How long it lasted, I couldn't tell. It might have been five seconds, it might have been a ... HARUKI MURAKAMI His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI They are sweating as much as anyone onstage. Their focus has to be that of somebody working on the b... CATHY RIGBY Once you get into that street groove, the other side-the straight side-looks really scary. RIVER PHOENIX We heard the sound of an engine going overhead and then shortly after we felt a large vibration on t... LINDA FARMER My favorite class as an undergraduate was a political theory class on justice. Now, 'justice'... PAUL S. KEMP As far as I'm concerned, the best acting class is life. JAKE MCLAUGHLIN He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS Why should I shatter your wonderful fantasy with my boring reality? ~ Evie Snow CARRIE HOPE FLETCHER White America is tortured by black America's failure to thrive, and all that guilt and anxiety h... JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER It's basically a grand march in the auditorium. The guys line up on one side and the girls line up o... JENNIFER WRIGHT I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG The dark and the light, they exist side by side, Sometimes overlapping, one explaining the othe... RAVEN DAVIES I was always the class clown and got kicked out of class at least once a day for just being a goofba... DAMON WAYANS, JR.
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JAMES ALLEN A man is literally what he thinks. JAMES ALLEN The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of a ... JAMES ALLEN The law of harvest is to reap more than you sow. Sow an act, and you reap a habit. Sow a habit and y... JAMES ALLEN I am just happy to be part of the Nike family. LEBRON JAMES There is a lot of pressure put on me, but I don't put a lot of pressure on myself. I feel if I p... LEBRON JAMES I'm confident with my ability. LEBRON JAMES Where I grew up - I grew up on the north side of Akron, lived in the projects. So those scared and l... LEBRON JAMES But now, being a parent, I go home and see my son and I forget about any mistake I ever made or the ... LEBRON JAMES There are some teams and logos you see, no matter where you are in the world, and you know exactly w... LEBRON JAMES Warren Buffet told me once and he said always follow your gut. When you have that gut feeling, you h... LEBRON JAMES Every night on the court I give my all, and if I'm not giving 100 percent, I criticize myself. LEBRON JAMES When you have that respect from your teammates, it makes it a lot more comfortable. LEBRON JAMES I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed. LEBRON JAMES I'm going to use all my tools, my God-given ability, and make the best life I can with it. LEBRON JAMES Last year, I was on Threat Matrix. We were on Thursday against Friends and Survivor; so this year it... JAMES DENTON There's nothing wrong with falling in love and sharing your life with someone. LILY JAMES Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place ... JAMES TAYLOR I treated it like every day was my last day with a basketball. LEBRON JAMES I think a bishop who doesn't give offence to anyone is probably not a good bishop. JAMES THOMSON It's hard to know which stars in the sky will turn into black holes. And which ones will open up... JAMES ALTUCHER The James Brown story is not about James Brown. It's about who's getting paid, whose interes... JAMES MCBRIDE The question of religion in black America is something filmmakers don't want to touch. JAMES MCBRIDE In a way, light unites the spiritual world and the ephemeral, physical world. People frequently talk... JAMES TURRELL I know there's Brooklyn and all the boroughs, but Manhattan specifically is so condensed that th... THEO JAMES The men whose manhood you have broken will loathe you, and will always be brooding and scheming to s... JAMES LARKIN Supernatural movies generally have a much more brooding pace. If you look at films like 'The Six... JAMES WAN