Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK If in barbed wire things can bloom, why couldn't I? I will not die, I will not die. FRIEDL AND THE CHILDREN OF TEREZIN The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irra... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING We are extremely pleased with our fourth quarter results, which exceeded our expectations. We contin... LARRY KRAMER Everything has it's own time and place,
Transformation becomes effortless when we go with the flow. SHELLI THOMPSON If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times, and their parents are g... MARK HADDON The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thin... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We read advertisements to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready -- even eager -- to ... DANIEL J. BOORSTIN We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires. We are always ready - even eager - to... DANIEL J. BOORSTIN Lambhood and tigerishness may be found in either gender, and in the same individual at different tim... MARGARET ATWOOD I like to read fiction, and I particularly enjoy reading young adult fiction. But I also read childr... JAMES HOWE The girls we spoke to see Barbie torture as a legitimate play activity, and see the torture as a 'co... AGNES NAIRN In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Gods and wonders always appear, to attend the birth of kings. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagi... ALBERTO MANGUEL For our beginning reader program, we will take children as young as 4-and-a-half and teach them how ... DANA LASHLEY Stop running from me and listen. I do want you. I want you even knowing if I marry you, I’ve got a... LISA KLEYPAS And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY When we torture people, even if we win the battle, we've already lost the war for hearts and min... DEAN ORNISH And so, this Christmas season
may our hearts with gladness glow,
As we read the blessed story
That t... ALPHA L. BUNTAIN Let your little inspire someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in litt... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Let your little inspires someone greatly and greatly be the reasons for the smiles of someone in lit... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Just as our ancient ancestors drew animals on cave walls and carved animals from wood and bone, we d... DIANE ACKERMAN We talked about the direction we are going in and how valuable it would be to us on the ice and off ... DALE TALLON Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just lik... WILLIAM FAULKNER If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ... CRAIG GROESCHEL I love a lot of the New York bands, but Patti Smith stands out. I just read 'Just Kids' and ... JAMES IHA Nobody knows it all. You must keep learning. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We tell our stories, especially as young people, in part because we want them to be true. We want li... DANA FRANK As an actor one does read Shakespeare and does try to learn the classics. WILL KEMP Something wrong with your child? Feed them and put them to bed. Something wrong with your man? Feed ... SUSAN CARTWRIGHT Our hearts deceive us, because we leave them to themselves, are absent from them, taken up in outwar... WILLIAM LAW In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our heart... FRED ROGERS Everyone gets dumped and everyone gets hurt and there's karma to love in regards to what you'... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS My dad's quite a conservative person, and he brought me up to be very questioning of the commerc... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I don't think she's a lesbian. I think she just ran out of men. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. I... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I really like the look of the 1950s, lots of suburban Americana influences. I'm 5'4', so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am very curvy, so the vintage stores suit me better than most designers. I just can't seem to ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I have quite a lot of plastic sunglasses. It's just a nice accessory, it adds a final thing, and... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I lived in Greece for about four years of my life, and living there had a huge impact on my life gro... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I love natural beauty, and I think it's your best look, but I think makeup as an artist is so tr... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I think celebrity culture and sexuality in pop music is really important, but I want there to be an ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm not really part of that 'L.A. thing' or that celebrity culture. I'm more like so... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS This obsession with celebrity culture is really unhealthy. I don't want to live my life like tha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Even when I see a beautiful woman, I think, 'Aw, her life must be amazing.' Everyone does it... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Blonde symbolises sexuality and power - it holds very different connotations. The archetypal star ha... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Love is really my nemesis. I never really allowed myself to indulge in such basic things because I w... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Britney Spears is a big influence. Huge. I think people thought I was joking about that for a long t... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Puberty is a phase... fifteen years of rejection is a lifestyle. [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY I criticized the whole American songwriting industry and the pop side of it and I was bitter about i... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I often take things I find in vintage crawls and hand them to a very good seamstress, who then repli... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I've read every Madonna biography. I've also looked up every pop star to see how they first ... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill! SEX AND THE CITY I love you, but I love myself more. SEX AND THE CITY Maybe mistakes are what make our fate... without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we had ne... SEX AND THE CITY Desperate Housewives. SEX AND THE CITY Sean (while ice-skating with Carrie): I'm guessing it's easier to balance when you're not smoking.Ca... SEX AND THE CITY I want you to look at me, connect with me. This is lovemaking, it's not a porno flick. [Maria] SEX AND THE CITY I once was broken up with by a guy's doorman. 'I'm sorry Ms. Hobbes, Jonathan won't be coming down. ... SEX AND THE CITY I feel like everyone has the right to privacy, even if you're the most famous person in the worl... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS When you are in the studio, you don't have anybody to feed off of; meanwhile, when you are playi... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I am absolutely not a roll-on-stage kind of girl! I would be totally freaked out if I didn't war... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS It's a slippery slope, Carrie. Without boundaries you never know what might happen. [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY the sort of person who'd back Proposition 14. SEX AND THE CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] SEX AND THE CITY Maybe we should get married.[Charlotte] Alrighty.[Trey] SEX AND THE CITY My Zen teacher also said: the only way to true happiness is to live in the moment and not worry abou... SEX AND THE CITY Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story. SEX AND THE CITY No lady likes to dance or dine, accompanied by a porcupine. Burma Shave. SEX AND THE CITY I don't think I'm an instantaneous act the whole world will love in one second - but that... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS What's the big mystery? It's my vagina, not the sphinx! [Miranda] SEX AND THE CITY My style icons are Leigh Lezark, Gwen Stefani and Shirley Manson. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I do have a memo all the time because I need to be guided by something in my life. I'm not relig... MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS I'm masquerading as an innocent pop star. MARINA AND THE DIAMONDS the lights fade to black. SEX AND THE CITY Yeah, I would love to. I don't know if I'd do another singing one. SEX AND THE CITY Bellhop: "this is a non-smoking floor."Carrie: "I have an addiction sir!" SEX AND THE CITY F*** me badly once, shame on you. F*** me badly twice, shame on me. SEX AND THE CITY Hasty Pudding is no small potatoes (sorry to mix the food references), known for its famous alumni a... SEX AND THE CITY I knew I wanted a handbag, but they were so pricey. I love Marc Jacobs. SEX AND THE CITY All other documents in the Getty's possession that could in any way be relevant to the Italian inves... SEX AND THE CITY 'Rome' vital to HBO TV empire. SEX AND THE CITY Sex and the City. SEX AND THE CITY Suicide is not glamorous and should not be portrayed in a glamorous light. SEX AND THE CITY When an opportunity comes, I don't question it. I grab it, drop its ring on the nightstand and swing... SEX AND THE CITY Having money isn't the answer but it makes your life a hell of a lot nicer. If you have the choice t... SEX AND THE CITY Despite the fact that there are over eight million people on the island of Manhattan, there are time... SEX AND THE CITY When Charlotte really liked somebody she said their whole name. It helped her picture their future m... SEX AND THE CITY I love you but it's not my job to fix your finances. [Charlotte] SEX AND THE CITY It took me a really long time to get here, but I'm here. Carrie, you're the one. [Mr.Big] SEX AND THE CITY Life is not all about sex. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY When Charles Dickens wrote "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," I believe he must ... SEX AND THE CITY From my experience, honey, if he seems too good to be true—he probably is. [Samantha] SEX AND THE CITY Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there. SEX AND THE CITY
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GARTH BROOKS Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently wh... GARTH BROOKS I'm much too young to feel this damn old. GARTH BROOKS I'd much rather have the honesty than not. Because if you will say what's on your mind and g... GARTH BROOKS It's the sweetest thing to be a parent of a daughter. When they hit their twenties, they become ... GARTH BROOKS People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something. GARTH BROOKS You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is. GARTH BROOKS I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright. GARTH BROOKS I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me being abl... GARTH BROOKS Any time I'm in a moving thing, like an airplane, I'm usually asleep before we even get on o... GARTH BROOKS Here's my whole marketing idea: treat people the way you want to be treated. GARTH BROOKS You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire. GARTH BROOKS Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got. GARTH BROOKS Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers. GARTH BROOKS You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy. GARTH BROOKS True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt. GARTH BROOKS I just love to see people having a good time. GARTH BROOKS Truth is mighty and will prevail.
[Lat., Magna est veritas et praevalebit.] THOMAS BROOKS He said true things, but called them by wrong names. THOMAS BROOKS Needy people are like newborns, I have come to realize. One intoxicated night and BAM! You are stuck... CHASE BROOKS It just comes from not doing anything and eating my momma's cooking. After my surgery, I was in the ... AHMAD BROOKS It means we can play with the big dogs. It's a big confidence boost. AHMAD BROOKS It was real tense. We just needed someone to make a play. AHMAD BROOKS It was frustrating. It was kind of like last week [against Duke], when I was on the sidelines. You r... AHMAD BROOKS I had some pressure [on that play]. I threw my hand in his face. That was all I could do. They weren... AHMAD BROOKS It was my first time playing outside linebacker, this weekend, so it's kind of hard to pick up every... AHMAD BROOKS The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Edward King, Bishop of Lincoln, Teacher, 1910 Commemoration of Martyrs of Uganda, 1886 & 19... PHILLIPS BROOKS It is for us, in whom the Christian Church is at this moment partially embodied, to declare that Chr... PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 If man is man a... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Oswald, King of Northumbria, Martyr, 642 Slowly, all through the universe, that temple o... PHILLIPS BROOKS I do not believe anyone ever yet humbly, genuinely, thoroughly gave himself to Christ without some o... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anskar, Archbishop of Hamburg, Missionary to Denmark and Sweden, 865 Only when a man tri... PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 A large acquain... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Luke the Evangelist No man dares to condemn the Christian faith today, because the Chris... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of William Tyndale, Translator of the Scriptures, Martyr, 1536 To hold your truth, to beli... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Anselm, Abbot of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, Teacher, 1109 I hear men praying eve... PHILLIPS BROOKS Commemoration of Phillips Brooks, Bishop of Massachusetts, spiritual writer, 1893 Wherever soul... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr O little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie!... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, Martyr, 258 Commemoration of Ninian, Bishop of Galloway, Apos... PHILLIPS BROOKS Feast of English Saints & Martyrs of the Reformation Continuing a series on the person of Jesus: W... PHILLIPS BROOKS Beginning a series on the person of Jesus: I read the words and ponder them, but most of all I loo... PHILLIPS BROOKS