But there was a dead silence that morning, right across the land as far as you could see. We shouted 'Merry Christmas,' even though nobody felt merry. The silence ended early in the afternoon and the killing started again. It was a short peace in a terrible war.
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becomes you for out o' question you we... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS As soon as they announced us as the winners we stood up and we started walking to the stage and ther... CHRIS HUFFMAN 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 I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES England was merry England, when
Old Christmas brought his sports again.
'Twas Christmas broach... SIR WALTER SCOTT If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Before the war is ended, the war party assumes the divine right to denounce and silence all oppositi... ROBERT M. LA FOLLETTE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Even though it was a (junior varsity) event it was pretty tough. We started off very slow in the mor... DAVE GRACIA Three merry boys, and three merry boys,
And three merry boys are we,
As ever did sing in a hem... FRANCIS BEAUMONT AND JOHN FLETCHER And in the afternoon they entered a land - but such a land! A land hung in mourning, darkened by gig... GEORGE WASHINGTON CABLE we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning. CHARLES BUKOWSKI 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 In the end, I think you really only get as far as you're allowed to get. GAYLE GARDNER 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 A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, ... JACK LONDON The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea. WILLIAM SHARP There the Bush Administration has offered only a merry go-round policy. They got up on their high ho... SENATOR JOHN KERRY It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive agai... BIBLE I'm high as a kite and my teeth are green, Merry f**kin' Christmas! DENIS LEARY Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE 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 In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christm... MILO YIANNOPOULOS the boldest form of dissent they can manage. Silence. Which says we do not agree. We do not condone.... SUZANNE COLLINS Then there was a silence he had never before experienced: in it, you could hear the years. PASCAL MERCIER Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Then without any warning the car stopped. They were there. "The ride's over," someone sai... CORNELL WOOLRICH I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN She had a short fuse this morning, because it was a day that ended with y, you see. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Before war there is peace, after war its just the silence. AHMAD TALAL ASIF And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEA... WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER The silence was more profound than that of midnight; and to me the silence of a summer morning is mo... THOMAS DE QUINCEY I shouted into the phone, but there was no reply. Silence floated up from the receiver like smoke fr... HARUKI MURAKAMI She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry ... SIR WALTER SCOTT Heap on more wood! the wind is chill!
But let it whistle as it will,
We'll keep up Christmas ... UNKNOWN ...And, all at once, the moon arouse through the thin ghastly mist, And was crimson in color... And ... EDGAR ALLAN POE If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birt... ELLEN DEGENERES When I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even ... JIMMY CARTER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Merry Christmas! JOHN PAUL II Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. What's the difference between people who see and seek gaps and those that see and seek bridges? The ... RICHIE NORTON The Piper's playing again, and there's a full orchestra.' There was a long silence as An... D.J. STUTLEY 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 Do you want to change the world? Then change yourself first. Do you want to change yoursel... SRI CHINMOY Some things are very dear to me --/ Such things as flowers bathed by rain/ Or patterns traced upon t... GWENDOLYN BENNETT The silence was killing me. And that's all there ever was. Silence. It was all I knew. Ke... J. LYNN She mailed me a Merry Christmas-I'm-Breaking-Up-with-You card. I'll read it to you," he said. He cle... MEGAN MCCAFFERTY The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER You silly," said Abdul, "those clouds don' mean nothing. I see'd them plenty a'ready. It was jus' co... THEO ENGELA You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY In the beginning, there was silence. And out of the silence came the sound. The sound is not here. DANIEL BARENBOIM The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... CHRISTINA ENGELA 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 His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Walking: it hits you at first like an immense breathing in the ears. You feel the silence as if it w... FRéDéRIC GROS A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON The market just showed mild profit-taking in morning trade but the losses were limited. It turned hi... CASTOR PANG What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace. WILLIAM SAROYAN A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab... JOHN GREEN A merry Christmas to everybody! A happy New Year to all the world! CHARLES DICKENS Blinding, mineral, shattering silence. You hear nothing but the quiet crunch of stones underfoot. An... FRéDéRIC GROS Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON I made a French film called 'Merry Christmas' which is a very European film. It's a Worl... DIANE KRUGER the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN There was silence deep as death;
And the boldest held his breath,
For a time. THOMAS CAMPBELL There was silence deep as death, / And the boldest held his breath / For a time. THOMAS CAMPBELL In the early '20s, with the war over, there was a period of celebration, and you can see it in t... MICHELLE DOCKERY
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