But family connections are weird. Even if your relatives aren't good to you, they're still your blood. You can't lose that connection completely. And believe me, I've got a few relatives on my dad's side I'd love to lose.
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Whom should one love ideally?
My answer was even wilder!
Fir... DR. VINOD B. NAIR She's mine. And if any of you lay a hand on her, you lose that hand. And then lose your head. And on... SARAH J. MAAS Some people inherit lots of money from their relatives. Some people inherit good looks from their re... OLASOT Go home, and let all your relatives off the potter's wheel. You are not the potter! JOYCE MEYER Feel what you feel, know what you know, and set your relatives free to do the same. MELODY BEATTIE Well, if you don't want your relatives and friends to die, help me spread the news. Let people k... ALEX CHIU You can get a hometown phone number so your relatives can dial a local number, and it's routed to yo... LOUIS HOLDER You never really lose people if your memories are greater than your pain , because the heart still h... DON HUNTINGTON Corruption is the art of shortchanging yourself by using funds meant for public good for your privat... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When you stop caring what people think, you lose your capacity for connection. When you're defin... BRENE BROWN There's a balance: You want to love them and do what you can, but you don't want to lose your job or... VIRGINIA MORRIS Leaving America means renouncing your citizenship, moving out of the country and leaving family and ... MICHAEL ARRINGTON Lifes biggest fear, is fear itself.
Fear makes you lose your sense of trust.
Fear (not hate) is the ... RENATE VULLINGS You lose your home, you are much more likely to lose your job the year following. The reason for tha... MATTHEW DESMOND Do not lose hold of your dreams or asprirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have cea... HENRY DAVID THOREAU Three women in my family, close relatives, have had breast cancer, and two have died from it, and st... JAMEELA JAMIL Everybody gathers together, your parents and relatives and you don't go to sleep. The custom is to s... ELISE MARQUIS Some of my happiest moments are the ones I spend with my husband, a few close relatives, and a handf... ROBIN MARANTZ HENIG Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason. ANTON CHEKHOV Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos... CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Those were two hard losses. Last-rock losses are always tough, but in a round-robin you've got to ex... COLLEEN JONES Never fall in love. Love is a poison. Once you fall in love, you lose control over your life --- you... PAULO COELHO We need some tough love in the system. If you're a parent who's drug-addicted, you lose a great deal... DAVE NABITY Remember that you own what happened to you. If your childhood was less than ideal, you may have been... ANNE LAMOTT Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind. MICK JAGGER If you lose your job, your marriage and your mind all in one week, try to lose your mind first, beca... JACK HANDY The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in y... CORALLIE BUCHANAN If God has given you the world's goods in abundance, it is to help you gain those of Heaven and ... SAINT IGNATIUS Lose your dream, you lose your mind. ROLLING STONES Your father you esteem. Your mother you pamper. Your relatives you regard. Your frien... MATSHONA DHLIWAYO Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way,
surrounded by your family. Nur... OG MANDINO Always reward your long hours of labor and toil in the very best way, surrounded by your family. Nur... OG MANDINO If some things don't make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING If some things don’t make you lose your sense of reason, then you have none to lose. GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING Do not refuse to help your own relatives. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely e... SUN MYUNG MOON Only one who has nothing to lose, and everything to gain, would commit such a crime. The blood of a ... J.K. ROWLING Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. KEN KESEY If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Relatives cannot help you in the studios. You stand or fall by your own efforts. GLYNIS JOHNS You never want to admit your happy after a loss, but if we're going to lose, this is how I want to l... JAMES INGBER Dads. Do you not realize that your child needs to feel your skin on his? Do you not realize the incr... DAN PEARCE If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you w... LES BROWN When you are confronted with terrible hardships, and no one offers you any support, when your friend... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB In learning a new language, no matter how good your language teacher is, or how good you are in clas... MAICHEE SUMMER You know, all my songs are relatives, brothers, sisters, cousins. DAVID COVERDALE In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think... BARBARA LYNN You cant Realize Someone Good Is Coming Your Way, if still Remain Sleep on the Fact that they Actual... DARREN L JACKSON Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. STEPHEN LEACOCK Marriage is a lottery, but you can't tear up your ticket if you lose. F. M. KNOWLES Fighting hard to protect yourself and your relatives is good for your genes, but when captured and e... KEITH HENSON There aren't any universals. You need to look at your proximity to your relatives, your health?I tel... LOU STANASOLOVICH I was born in Iran, which has a predominantly Muslim population, and I have relatives who are devout... NAZANIN BONIADI You can't lose two (if you want to contend for the Valley). Your chances wouldn't be very good. DICK BLASY We know that if you lose, you go home now. It's not lose and go look at it on film. If you lose, the... COREY BREWER Let wisdom be your mother, and contentment your father. Let Truth be your brother - these are your b... SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB Once again I am riding my bike on the streets of loneliness. Your thoughts are the anchor that make ... AVIJEET DAS Gender presentation should reflect the person that you are. When you lose control of your gender pre... CHELSEA MANNING I'm disappearing, Leo. Like Dootsie's trick, except this is real. Who are you if you lose your favor... JERRY SPINELLI I can’t wait to find out how you taste, and you won’t want me to stop even after I’ve complete... JEANIENE FROST If you want to have a good life, you should focus on your family, on your business, on your dog, on ... ADAM CAROLLA am your spaniel; and, Demetrius, The more you beat me, I will fawn on you: Use me but as your spanie... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards gett... PAULO COELHO If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards, get... PAULO COELHO You must remember, family is often born of blood, but it doesn't depend on blood. Nor is it exclusiv... TRENTON LEE STEWART The movie says, You can lose your job and your way and still rescue yourself. 'Larry Crowne'... JULIA ROBERTS For me the most important thing in my life is love. I think you have to be in love with your family,... JOSE MOURINHO All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them. CHINESE PROVERB All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them CHINESE PROVERBS You need to feel that the game is important to you. Lose that feeling and you lose your edge. There'... DAN MARINO
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RICK RIORDAN THAT'S IT!" Terminus cried. "That's AGAINST THE RULES!" Polybotes frowned, obviously confused t... RICK RIORDAN Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes. RICK RIORDAN Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all. RICK RIORDAN If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself. RICK RIORDAN She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish. RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ... RICK RIORDAN Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers ... RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see. RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world. RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh... RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought. RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th... RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea. If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i... RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret. RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a... RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace.... RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’ ‘How can you even talk to me like t... RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?" He shrugged. "Techn... RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair. RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later. RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can." Grover cracked a smile.... RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend... RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro... RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol... RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind... RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die. RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla... RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand... RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga... RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin... RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive. RICK RIORDAN How did you die?" "We er....drowned in a bathtub." "All three of you?" "It was a big ... RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between... RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a... RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face. RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster." End of discussion.The Tita... RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.” Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i... RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad. RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc... RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again! RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest. RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s... RICK RIORDAN