Carol Shields
Related TAMMARA WEBBER FRANCINE RIVERS DEYTH BANGER FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS EDWARD R. MURROW Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES C. JOYBELL C. SARAH J. MAAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Its front porch had a beautiful view of the water and invisible screening to keep the jellybugs and ... JULIAN MAY HARUKI MURAKAMI ROBERT A. HEINLEIN ROBERT A. HEINLEIN PIERCE BROWN CRAIG GROESCHEL C. JOYBELL C. SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN GEORGE R.R. MARTIN SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A.A. MILNE A.A. MILNE A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?'... LETA BLAKE MARKUS ZUSAK TOBA BETA SARAH J. MAAS HENRY JAMES MADELEINE L'ENGLE ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN NICHOLAS SPARKS She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR GEORGE R.R. MARTIN CRAIG GROESCHEL AULIQ ICE DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM SARAH J. MAAS BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL JEFFREY ARCHER CARRIE RYAN To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... NEIL GAIMAN A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH BRIAN JACQUES The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY STEPHEN CHBOSKY NANETTE L. AVERY HUSEYN RAZA Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good! SILVIA HARTMANN Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON SARA TEASDALE LEV GROSSMAN Once in a while you get shown the light in the strangest of places, if you look at it right. GRATEFUL DEAD BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE Tea followers were among the earliest converts to the Christian faith. Takayama Ukon, a daimyo turne... F. CALVIN PARKER The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR SARAH J. MAAS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN
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DAVID SHIELDS We've been appropriating in art since Duchamp, and we've been appropriating in music since t... DAVID SHIELDS BROOKE SHIELDS When I was studying at the Iowa Writers School, I read a sports writer, Ron Maly, from the Des Moine... DAVID SHIELDS In my twenties and early thirties, I wrote three novels, but beginning in my late thirties, I wearie... DAVID SHIELDS BROOKE SHIELDS MARK SHIELDS The novel is an artifact, which is why antiquarians cling to it so fervently. DAVID SHIELDS BROOKE SHIELDS We like non-fiction because we live in fictitious times. DAVID SHIELDS I began as a fiction writer - I had written three novels in my 20s and 30s. But as my work has gravi... DAVID SHIELDS I felt like I was definitely seeing something - the falsely gorgeous images of war, painted, almost ... DAVID SHIELDS I think there are people who are born storytellers. I think of someone like T. C. Boyle or Gabriel G... 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You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... 
One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature 
You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... 
You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. 
We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... 
Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. 
The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... 
It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... 
Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. 
Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... 
Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... 
I turned.
History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... 
Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. 
We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. 
There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ... 
I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. 
Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... 
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... 
Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over 
That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... 
While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story. 
-you can think you know someone and then they say something or do something and suddenly everything ... 
I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud 
they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... 
Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. 
She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... 
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... 
I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... 
Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... 
Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga,
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i... 
This is the spot where I will lie 
I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert.... 
The world pays no attention to those who have nothing to offer 
I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life. 
The most rewarding thing is being on Broadway. I went into Cabaret as a replacement and was really c... 
I was always with a single mom, and we never had schedules or anything. We were just Bohemian, us ag... 
I think any advocate who is effective has fully acquainted himself or herself with the legislator th... 
John McCain has become the de facto running mate of George W. Bush. 
The advantage that hospitals have over other institutions is that hospitals are community-based. You... 