Robert A. Heinlein quote: "Dorcas, for the last twenty or thirty years I’ve been a worthless, useless, no-good parasite.” She nodded and yawned again. “Everybody knows that.” “Never mind the flattery. There comes a time in every man’s life when he has to stop being sensible—a time to stand up and be counted—strike a blow for liberty

Yes, Boss?'
Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

Remember though, your best weapon is between your ears and under your scalp -provided it's loaded.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN

TANSTAAFL: There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.
PIERRE DOS UTT

Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ...
RON DARIAN

A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

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

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.
GALE SAYERS

History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL

What will make you a star is in you
SOTONYE ANGA

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

I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES

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

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

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

If we all took a minute to reflect upon the wrong we do we would be quite surprised or shocked.Inste...
GARY F EVANS...

The man I am today it's not the man of yesterday
CHRISTOPHER FUDGE

is a broken man an outlaw?"

"More or less." Brienne answered.

Septon Meribald ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN

The summer sun continued to rise in the sky and propel shocks of heat down on the city and the heavy...
HUBERT SELBY JR.

Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

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

Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone
SUZY KASSEM

Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM

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.

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

Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C.

Have & Have Not
SAVAN SOLANKI

When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI

They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
DAN GROAT

A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study...
APURVA GAGLANI

We should be ready for a change.
DEYTH BANGER

Did you see more glass?
J.D. SALINGER

She was a girl who for a ringing phone dropped exactly nothing. She looked as if her phone had been ...
J.D. SALINGER

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

These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON

Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR.

Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER

When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE

Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER

A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place...
ANKITA SINGHAL

People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself, and they never forget a single m...
OM BENIWAL

You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA

Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS...

His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING

A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi...
C. JOYBELL C.

Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
CRAIG GROESCHEL

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

Curran's whore comes to visit us," Jarek said in accented English.

The three men laughed ...
ILONA ANDREWS

I’ve been looking for a feeling like that everywhere I go. I’ve been waiting for someone to see ...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
ROBERT J. HANLON

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

Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS

The Doktor was an old man. When he was a kid, his Dad bought him a chemistry set. He never played wi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE

in these shitty plastic days ...
GILLIAN FLYNN

GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY !
MITCHELL GREEN

The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it.
MAE WEST

There are no ugly women, only lazy ones
HELENA RUBINSTEIN

Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana...
LESLIE MCINTYRE

Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky
DEBORAH KERR

Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,...
PETRONIUS

If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON

Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn...
CLARE BOOTHE LUCE

The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g...
BETTY GRABLE

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