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Henceforth there will be no letters to answer; I have bade farewell to first performances and the literary and other discussions which come from them.


Jules Massenet

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ERNEST HEMINGWAY The dreams were off on a trip. Helena went as far as the train station with them. She bade them fare...
EDUARDO GALEANO I have the right to remain violente. Everything I say can and will be used against you.
EMINEM Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD The first question which you will ask and which I must try to answer is this; What is the use of cli...
GEORGE LEIGH MALLORY There are no negotiations, ... There are no discussions about renewing negotiations and first of all...
EHUD BARAK Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Autumn has come to northeast Montana. The vapor of one’s breath, the clarity of the stars, the sme...
LARRY WATSON Peleus acknowledged this. "Yet other boys will be envious that you have chosen such a one. What will...
MADELINE MILLER Have you been to a place where no one have been before? I give you the answer: Yes! Everywhere chang...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN The American People will come first once again. My plan will begin with safety at home - which means...
DONALD TRUMP I believe the Cricket Committee will be conducting their discussions over the phone. But I expect, w...
JOEY CAREW I told the kids not to get up or down on their performances. It's indoor. We just have to keep belie...
ERIC MURRAY I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. ...
JOSE RIZAL Guys ask me when I'm going to be back, and I don't have no answer for them. At the same time, I've g...
ANTONIO PIERCE They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are...
C.S. LEWIS The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me ...
JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell.
Th...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo...
GERMANY KENT Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shrieked as Kosciusko fell! . . . . ...
THOMAS CAMPBELL You learned right away that applause sounds like love.
AVA DELLAIRA And when they opposed themselves, and blasphemed, he shook his raiment, and said unto them, Your blo...
BIBLE I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH Don't you mind," said Puddleglum. "There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when...
C.S. LEWIS To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE There is either where we've been or where we hope to go, here is where we are, take a moment to give...
DENNIS BARTON There were students from all over the world. Their professor asked them to write thank-you letters. ...
FRED SHAW There can be no literary equivalent to truth.
LAURA RIDING When fear knocks at the door, and you answer, there will be no one there.
UNKNOWN They have been there from the start and it will be really tough to lose the three of them. I know al...
KYLE WOODCOCK I'm so excited. I just really wanted to have two good performances, which I did. To be standing on t...
KATY TAYLOR I think there ought to be a club in which preachers and journalists could come together and have the...
REINHOLD NIEBUHR The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, ...
ETTY HILLESUM Every day I shall put my papers in order and every day I shall say farewell. And the real farewell, ...
ETTY HILSUM If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Give someone a thought, and they will produce an act; When they sow that act, they will reap a habit...
PERRY ROTHENBAUM Negativity is like a wash of black rain after a nuclear explosion .To avert this from happening you ...
GARY F EVANS... As with all of these scandals, the longer it takes them to answer the question, the more interest th...
MASSIE RITSCH This is the key to life: To expect everything to be given to you from above, yet to be genuinely sur...
C. JOYBELL C. I have had no formal discussions with Maurice. Everyone is acutely aware that Trent has a get-out cl...
WAYNE BEAVIS There have been no discussions to my knowledge about it.
ERIC GILL I would be surprised if there are no discussions. But the intensity and fruitfulness of the talks wi...
WILLIAM KOVACIC Nevertheless now have I asked thee but only of the fire and wind, and of the day where-through thou ...
COMPTON GAGE From the minute you walk in, academics come first, ... There will be assignments, there will be read...
KATHLEEN FARRELL To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, h...
MICHAEL KNIGHT My ideas flow so rapidly that I have not time to express them──by which means my letters sometim...
JANE AUSTEN I have a cousin there. I've been calling him since morning, but at first there was no answer, and no...
ESHKIN MEKHVALIYEV People want to come and give the farewell kiss. It does make it difficult to work, but it's part of ...
DR. RAED ARINI I entreat students of letters and other scholars to obey their masters in things good, to imitate th...
JAN HUS We look forward to continuing the partnership with the Cleveland Clinic and we will have discussions...
STEVEN CAMPANINI I have not had any discussions regarding a stadium. I know as we grow, we will need recreational fac...
GARY KUBIC The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD To train and educate the rising generation will at all times be the first object of society, to whic...
ROBERT OWEN I have been in contact with Willie's agent, ... and we are exploring options with Willie. There will...
BILLY KING I have been in contact with Willie's agent and we are exploring options with Willie. There will be n...
BILLY KING Sometimes there are people in this world that you meet. Most of these people remain just that, passi...
EMILY WILLIAMS We've had productive discussions with them and we will continue to do so. We elect not to share the ...
JAY HORWITZ To be rich simply means,to be able to meet people's need.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) when your heart touched mine,I knew then we were one.
THERESA M WILSON To be rich simply means to be beneficial to others.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth.
JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women...
JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ...
JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju...
JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ...
THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l...
JUSTINA CHEN There was no other reason to come back, just basketball. I wanted to win and have fun at the same ti...
SHAY DORON The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no o...
PLATO The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness...This and no ...
PLATO No matter how thoroughly and searchingly we may have scrutinized works of literature from the histor...
EDMUND WILSON Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other ...
CLIVE BARKER I would love to document the Roots; I think they have an interesting story. I have a curiosity about...
MICHAEL RAPAPORT I'll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical�...
STEPHENIE MEYER I'll be the first to admit that I have no experience with relationships. But it just seems logical�...
STEPHANIE MEYER He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil...
CHRISTINA ENGELA I will listen and if I can't provide an answer, I'll find one and get back (to them). There are seve...
CLAY HARRIS This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be ...
OTTO SCHILY I think if all the best players - and we all know who they are - play we will expect and get good pe...
JACK CHARLTON Morning, noon & bloody night,
Seven sodding days a week,
I slave at filthy WORK, that ...
PHILIP LARKIN On New Year's Eve, Times Square is the epicenter of the world - it's the place to be and the place t...
CARSON DALY To date or not to date that is the question. It's almost as important as Shakespeare's to be...
AL GOLDSTEIN There is no Situation in which Arms can get an Answer. Arms only ensure, that there would Never be a...
VINEET RAJ KAPOOR Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Sov...
ERIC BOGOSIAN But even in such works where the author is ideally unobtrusive, he remains diffused through the book...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV There are no tickets left; they sold out. There is no other way to answer that.
CARLOS DELGADO I've told them what I want from them and what I won't have. If I've got to be hard, then I will be. ...
ALAN VEST You're the first kid on the block when you come into some of these neighborhoods and it's not always...
WILLIAM FREY One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in findi...
JAMES PAYN This is from before she was a porn star, when she was just a horny, little teenager from New Jersey ...
HOWARD LEVINE This is from before she was a porn star, when she was just a horny, little teenager from New Jersey ...
HOWARD LEVINE I love receiving letters from students who are excited to participate in AIM. They work really hard ...
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JULES VERNE The regions of the North Pole situated within the eighty-fourth degree of north latitude have not ye...
JULES VERNE We are of opinion that instead of letting books grow moldy behind an iron grating, far from the vulg...
JULES VERNE It is certain that the inanimate objects by which you are surrounded have a direct action on the bra...
JULES VERNE When the US sneezes, Canada says, “gesundheit.”
JULES CARLYSLE Wrinkles are engraved smiles.
JULES RENARD Before all masters, necessity is the one most listened to, and who teaches the best.
JULES VERNE You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one...
JULES SHEAR A man of merit owes himself to the homage of the rest of mankind who recognize his worth.
JULES VERNE The world is an enormous injustice.
JULES ROMAINS It astounds us to come upon other egoists, as though we alone had the right to be selfish, and to be...
JULES RENARD We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest.
JULES RENARD An optimist is a driver who thinks that empty space at the curb won't have a hydrant beside it.
JULES RENARD Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it
JULES RENARD