As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.


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We can't all, and some just don't. That's all there is to it.
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Tiggers don't like honey.
A. A. MILNE
He respects Owl, because you can't help respecting anybody who can spell TUESDAY, even if he doesn't...
A. A. MILNE
Hush! Hush! Whisper who dares! [Christopher Robin is saying his prayers]
A. A. MILNE
Christopher Robin had a question to ask first, and he was wondering how to ask it."Well," he said at...
A. A. MILNE
The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief-call it what you will-than...
A. A. MILNE
"When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to you...
A. A. MILNE
A church has no right to make anything a condition of membership which Christ has not made a conditi...
A. A. HODGE
Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
A. A. HODGE
Whatever fortune brings, don't be afraid of doing things.
A. A. MILNE
For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.
A. A. MILNE
How sweet to be a Cloud Floating in the Blue!
A. A. HODGE
A writer wants something more than money for his work: he wants permanence.
A. A. MILNE
No sensible author wants anything but praise.
A. A. MILNE
I gave up writing children's books. I wanted to escape from them as I had once wanted to escape ...
A. A. MILNE
Bearing an eternal longing for Jewishness, I threw myself in all directions and left to work for ano...
S. ANSKY
When I first stepped into literature twenty-five years ago, I wanted to work on behalf of the oppres...
S. ANSKY
A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is tor...
S. ANSKY
All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on 'Jewi...
S. ANSKY
Jealousy is only a good thing when your jealous of me.
BREANNA S
When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.
NESHIALY S.
Craftiness is a quality in the mind and a vice in the character.
S. DUBAY
I have just about all I can take of myself.
S. BEHRMAN
So? There's two of us and one of you, and whenever we feel like it, we can be three. That's love too...
S. DORA
When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it.
NESHIALY S.
The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things ...
S. GUDDER
To succeed, your "why you do it" must be strong enough to get you out of bed early in the morning.
MICHAEL S.
If we always live
in constant fear
then we might miss
the beauty of the moment
r...
S. TARR
But it is the yogic path to be introspective, and to be the best person one can be.
S. IYENGAR
People don't care about price, if you have a great story and proposition, they'll buy your product.
MICHAEL S.
If there is shit all around me, how can I eat my ice cream?
S. BALARAM
Think of playing an instrument. When first picking up a new piece of music, a musician hammers out t...
S. CICCARELLI
Life travels steeper when we always LACK something and try make up with it
VIGNESH S
Being free in Jesus is a luxury. If you really desire to be free in Jesus, you’re going to have to...
GODISNOW1'S
...mammalian embryos, regardless of their sex chromosome constitutions, have an inherent tendency to...
S. OHNO
As hard as modern man strives to be free he is a slave chained to the past.
S. OHNO
உலகம் முழுவதும் வீடுகள் இருக்கின்றன...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN
வெற்றி பெற்றவனை விட தோற்றவனிடம் தான்...
S. RAMAKRISHNAN
Whenever you're late, make others wonder if they can handle your success if you came on time
VIGNESH S
Loneliness can either kill you or teach you depending on you being either a fighter or a survivor
VIGNESH S
If God never gave me one more thing in my life, then you, right now, would be enough. You are my Day...
S. KHUBIAR
Our goals are to find an easy way to find high risk (women) and to make the counseling process more ...
S. HUGHES
On a superficial level, self-esteem techniques and a tough "refusal to allow others to hurt me" tact...
JUSTIN S. HOLCOMB & LINDSEY A. HOLCOMB
I enjoy doing my work, and I don't want to deal with the other things. When you enjoy doing your...
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM
My work is not directly about the social or political.
A. BALASUBRAMANIAM