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Related A curly-haired third-year Hufflepuff girl to whom Harry had never spoken in his life asked him to go... J.K. ROWLING She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u... EDITH WHARTON Ultimately, it was a he said, she said that night, but all the evidence went against him showed he w... JODY CROSS He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think,... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR THERE was a man in our town, and he was wondrous rich; He gave away his millions to the colleges... FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS [But considering it seemed like the entire city came to the game to boo Manning, not even a 10-year ... TIKI BARBER We knew what he could be, but he kind of got out of town on us and people saw him. BUTCH PIERRE God is displeased at the diffidence of souls who love Him sincerely and whom He Himself loves. ALPHONSUS LIGUORI Boo, he's small, but a big leader, as I can him. He may be the smallest player on the court, but of ... ANTHONY SLACK He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied ... OSCAR WILDE If they're going to boo him, I think A.J. would be the perfect guy, ... Everybody boos A.J. wherever... OZZIE GUILLEN He didn't have superstar written all over him, but he had the desire to play, GLEN SATHER Too bad you’re like my older sister. We could have been something special.” I narrowed my e... T.J. KLUNE We could have been a great team our senior year and reaped the benefits. But he kind of took a big t... MEWELDE MOORE And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to... BIBLE That shows you if we could have had him at full tilt how much better we would have played. We weren'... PERRY WATSON I could see in him a guy who would have success over the long haul. And that's what he's been. His r... DAN ROONEY He knew Alec enough by now to know the conflicting impulses that warred in him. He was conscientious... CASSANDRA CLARE Claire said. “I might be able to get him to stop.” “Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might ... RACHEL CAINE He was an All-American a year ago, but he's had a hard string with illness and other things that hav... DANA SCHWARTING But he said to his wife, sitting next to him on the couch in the TV room, that rarely had he seen a ... MARK WALLACE If you're a kid who loves hockey, you wanted to play for Gary. He could be demanding. He had high st... BILL NEWSON But no one could say he hadn't gotten even. He could not count the field women whom he had sexually ... JAMES LEE BURKE I didn't quite know he was going to turn into the teen idol he turned into. Back then, he had like a... A.J. PIERZYNSKI Tony had a great offensive game. He hit some big shots. I'm not sure how many rebounds he ended up w... CARLOS BOOZER And everybody who knew him knew he had these three little girls. How could anybody do this? RINDA JEAN WILCOX He's had a tender back, but he said he was good to go. I kind of wanted to just use him a couple of ... MARK STALKER Secret to writing a bestseller: You write. You stop dreaming of writing. You stop talking about writ... JONATHAN GUNSON I liked Kennedy. So far, he is the only American president who could talk with me and with whom I co... SUKARNO A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful w... BRIAN LUMLEY There were a lot of things he could say. "Son of a bitch!" would have been a good one. Or he could s... TERRY PRATCHETT There is no secret here when he stood in the Roosevelt Room and said 'I never had sexual relations w... CHARLES RUFF [The child said] he took him to the bathroom and he says he whooped him. He had him bend over the co... THELMA BRADLEY The park was the heart of the city. He had come to the city – and with a knowing in his blood – ... FLANNERY O'CONNOR They're recruiting him as an athlete ... they expect him to be a cornerback, especially with his ath... BRIAN HUCKABAY He could be a butterfly dreaming he's a man." "Well, he's not. He's a big fat man dreaming he's... DEREK LANDY Yeah, that's right, ... They gave him the Medal of Honor. President Truman did. And then he came hom... JACK STANTON He whom loves touches not walks in darkness. PLATO He was like, 'Big G, what up? Who you walking with?' ... I said, 'Nobody. I'm just sightseeing.' He... GREG ODEN The kid doesn't get tired, and he's a sponge. He wants to learn all the time. Somebody's paying him ... ART VALERO David Johnson thrives on this kind of stuff. He loves the pressure. He loves the big shots. He wasn'... GARY CAPALDI He was kind of angry. He doesn't want to go out a loser. DESEAN JACKSON The Boasting Traveler
A man who had traveled in foreign lands boasted very much, on returning to his... AESOP He struggled to get ahold of himself. This had to stop! He couldn't flip out every time he thought a... SUZANNE COLLINS (Reese) had no idea how to take care of this kind of project, ... but he remembered that he had a fr... JAMES STRICKLAND Yes, he had to admit to himself, he liked dating bookish girls who didn’t give him any trouble. An... SHARON HAMILTON Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of ... ARTHUR CONAN Can a husband ever carry about a secret all his life and a woman who loves him have no suspicion of ... ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE SR. He cared a tremendous amount for his players. He had a really big heart. He loved this town and univ... ALAN MEEK You have guys who give scouting reports. His were kind of animated at times, but they were straight ... ALLEN IVERSON But what I wanted back had never really been there. He was a temporary illusion, a mirage of water a... DEB CALETTI He says he'd like to have made a true Western. He said his were kind of fantasies ... so you couldn'... BUDDY EBSEN He was big and brown and furry and my hair was brown. He kind of tossed it into the wings so it look... SUSAN EGAN You could know a man not by what his friends said about him, but by how he treated his servants. CASSANDRA CLARE Honestly, I've never seen a guy coming over, put in a situation like that where he's so much out of ... DAINIUS ZUBRUS Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ROBERT SOUTHEY Affliction is not sent in vain, young man,
From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. ROBERT SOUTHEY He stopped over a few times. We went to McDonald's a few times. He called on Tuesday and said he may... JACKIE BOOTS He said he didn't have any kind of problem with a governmental program. He said he never had to give... LAWRENCE STORY And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... J.K. ROWLING A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend. SIR WALTER SCOTT He who merely knows right principles is not equal to him who loves them. CONFUCIUS Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows "Boo", he said. Jace was grinning. "Come on,surely yo... CASSANDRA CLARE I would carry some of it if I could, Bean said silently. Like I did today, you can turn it over to m... ORSON SCOTT CARD He's a big, strong, really good-bodied horse, and he looks really fast. FRANK TAYLOR Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just ... NEIL GAIMAN He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric’... J.K. ROWLING He had proved to us over and over he could be trusted, so we didn't question him. CATHY CLARK People have been talking about him since he was a freshman. I never had any conversations with him a... GARY LINDGREN I would come to his defense if I knew what he had said, and if he had said blacks have an inherent p... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER I've always thought Steve could be mayor of San Francisco without too much of a fight. That's just t... BILL WALSH "Whom are you?" said he, for he had been to night school GEORGE ADE All the world loves a good loser. KIN HUBBARD He (Bashir) did not get the remission at all. I have just called him and he said that he had receive... LUTFI HAKIM He told me he had bronchitis that he couldn't shake. It's nice to hear all of the nice things being ... GREG AKERS The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fab... ROBBIE COLTRAINE Mr. Armour questioned him as to what it was. He said he wasn't sure but he felt that he could not co... GORDON HIGGINS He said he had accomplished all that he could in those four years, and it was time for him to get ba... BOB MITCHELL He has a ways to go (to equal SLM Big Daddy), but they're a lot alike, ... Don has said the older he... STEVE MITCHELL He [Cato] used to say that in all his life he never repented but
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[Fr., An, ma foi, je n'en sais rien; moi je ... ANDOCHE JUNOT (DUC D'ABRANTES)