Ian McEwan
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES He was on the track team and I know the way he was running, he was running for his life. I just have... JANICE KRAYNAK CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN ELEANOR ROOSEVELT HYMAN G RICKOVER HYMAN G RICKOVER There are days where I wish I didn't have to see his face. But I keep reminding myself that he came ... JULIE BREAULT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT ELEANOR ROOSEVELT For him, she was the evil one; the antagonist to his life story. The reason he was married at an ear... ALYSSA URBANO As he was gasping for air he realized something. He was in deep shit. Haley was his life now. His wo... R.L. MATHEWSON LEO TOLSTOY He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or ... P.J. FIALA LEO TOLSTOY ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ELEANOR ROOSEVELT All I knew is he was wanted by the Marine Corps and had been for a substantial amount of time. His r... G.R. GRAY I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present. JONATHAN HARNISCH I need you. I don't know why, but every now and then in my life, for no reason at all, I need you. LABYRINTH VIKTOR E. FRANKL Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must
recognize that it is... VIKTOR FRANKL God has a plan for everybody's life, so there was obviously a reason why He wanted me to go to N... JUSTIN TUCK He died sober. He died clean for the rest of his life. He ended his life the way we wanted him to be... WALLIS HUTCHKO LANG LEAV NICHOLAS SPARKS FRANCIS COLLINS I let ya in—into my life...my death...my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face.... JANAE MITCHELL It was a comet. The boy saw the comet and he felt as though his life had meaning. And when it went a... LUCAS SCOTT For the first time in his life he understood why the Bible called sex "knowing". Everything was diff... DAMON SUEDE MERVYN PEAKE ALEX LIFESON LUDWIG FEUERBACH JOSTEIN GAARDER HELEN KELLER ALBERT CAMUS LARRY MCMURTRY NICHOLAS SPARKS URSULA K. LE GUIN RICHELLE E. GOODRICH AYN RAND MARY BALOGH ALEX LIFESON ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES SUNDAY ADELAJA SUNDAY ADELAJA It is not that Shakespeare's art is in technicolor and fancy, and that real life is black and wh... STEPHEN GREENBLATT VIKTOR E. FRANKL JUVENAL MARY BALOGH SOLANGE NICOLE W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM DIANA GABALDON LINDA GRAY He was so tenacious he defied the distraction of women by refusing to have them in his presence, jus... KIT WILLIAMS CAROL LEIFER There was one kid, he said he watched us the last couple of years and he really went into depth abou... LEWIS THORPE JACK LONDON The way I see it, God gave us life for some reason and took away life from others for some other rea... JOSE VIVAS DYLAN THOMAS DIETRICH FISCHER-DIESKAU WILLIAM COWPER He was at a point in his life where he was retired. And he had expressed this was the happiest point... JODI OLSON There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it... C.J. CHERRYH But sometimes you can't figure everything out because you can't ever really understand other people.... WILLIAM LANDAY LEO TOLSTOY Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w... COURTNEY CAROLA JOHANN VON GOETHE JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE NICHOLAS SPARKS My son was preparing for this, he told us that people were after his life, but yet he was not prepar... BERNICE SMITH Without a doubt, he's taking it hard. Not to mention the fact that he was going with the fourth grou... JOE HORN ORSON SCOTT CARD He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. S... SHAYNA VARADEAUX WALTER MOSLEY For the first time in his life Faris felt happy and for only the second time in his life he felt he�... MELANIE CUSICK-JONES MAX STIRNER Everything in life happens for a reason and I've spent half of my life looking for those reasons! THUSH - THUSHARI NANAYAKKARA What do we do while we wait for my parents to find Jersey?” She let him go, took a step back.KASI BLAKE Now with her eyes closed and fist clenched at her side. She was as off balanced as he was. Lilith to... SHADOWSTORM NORWICCA We believe that [Jones] should have a solid economic position to live comfortably for the rest of hi... JOSE SULAIMAN We believe that (Jones) should have a solid economic position to live comfortably for the rest of hi... JOSE SULAIMAN We believe that (Jones) should have a solid economic position to live comfortably for the rest of hi... JOSE SULAIMAN We believe that [Jones] should have a solid economic position to live comfortably for the rest of hi... JOSE SULAIMAN J.R. WARD RICHARD YATES ROY BENNETT SHūSAKU ENDō LEV GROSSMAN JEAN-PAUL SARTRE GEORGE BERNARD SHAW His teammates did not rally around him. At all. They were frustrated, angry, and somewhat sympatheti... RON ROTHSTEIN I used to trouble about what life was for -- now being alive seems sufficient reason. JOANNA FIELD I used to worry about what life was for - now being alive seems sufficient reason. JOANNA FIELD W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He not only was my soccer coach, but a mentor for life. He was a friend. I have nothing but best wis... CHAD BROWN BUCK OWENS H.G. WELLS ROY BENNETT KILROY J. OLDSTER C. JOYBELL C.
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The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looki... 
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t... 
Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, t... 
I could never be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be l... 
If he had a reason for preferring Liberalism to the Conservatism of many in his set, it was not that... 
So many people live life without knowing the life they are living. We must get a reasonable reason f... 
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on l... 
Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is... 
Reasons"
But as he shook her hand and met those striking emerald eyes, he knew before he'd taken his sext bre... 
It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick... 
She could feel the blood flowing within her and she felt that she must die or break forth into leave... 
But when Neil called, I have to say that my heart soared. And the reason was, because it said so muc... 
Christianity set itself the goal of fulfilling man’s unattainable desires, but for that very reaso... 
A philosopher knows that in reality he knows very little. That is why he constantly strives to achie... 
Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word f... 
I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically g... 
Of all the women he knew, she had meant the most; and was the one person in his life he felt he had ... 
And suddenly she knew exactly why Catherine had fallen in love with him. It wasn't that he was unusu... 
Now they came back to him, on this night he was seventeen years old. All the years and places of his... 
To love her was to taste sweet surrender. For had she not entered his life, he would have sought the... 
In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he... 
Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it. 
I'd rather be on the ground than under
The only reason for your intimidation by the devil, and your being afraid of him, or what he can do ... 
As each situation in life represents a challenge to man and presents a problem for him to solve, the... 
Think it the greatest impiety to prefer life to disgrace, and for the sake of life to lose the reaso... 
This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought t... 
Make every day count... Even when you think it's the worst day of your life; for you never know when... 
There was no meaning in life, and man by living served no end. It was immaterial whether he was born... 
Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
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Assail'd by scandal and the tongue of strife,
His only answer was a blameless life;
And he tha... 
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. 
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes. 
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He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his lif... 
As his ears rang and his heart broke for her, he stayed strong against the gale force she let loose.... 
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If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu... 
The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive... 
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I don't hold grudges. 
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Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. 
Seventy years old! How did that happen? I was part of the generation that wasn't going to die. 
I always try to be reasonable and effective. 
Every human being makes mistakes. 
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