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Eavesdropping, Mother?' Ramses inquired.
'It is a shameful habit, but cursed useful,' I said, q...
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No woman really wants a man to carry her off; she only wants him to want to do it.
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I disapprove of matrimony as a matter of principle.... Why should any independent, intelligent femal...
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Selim, you will speak with your kin and your friends in Gurneh; perhaps some of them will respond to...
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Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.
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A lady cannot be blamed if a master criminal takes a fancy to her.
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The way to get on with a cat is to treat it as an equal - or even better, as the superior it knows i...
ELIZABETH PETERS

But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS

I do hope you have some money. I'm getting tired of hitting people.
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I was beginning to fear that you had turned into one of those boring females who can only say 'Yes, ...
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Sekhmet crawled onto Ramses's lap and began to purr. 'The creature oozes like a furry slug,' said Ra...
ELIZABETH PETERS

The cat Horus shot out from under the table and headed for the door, his ears flattened and his tail...
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In the silence I heard Bastet, who had retreated under the bed, carrying on a mumbling, profane mono...
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He smiled affably at the burglar, a burly fellow whom he continued to hold with one hand, as easily ...
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To see Ramses, at fourteen months, wrinkling his brows over a sentence like 'The theology of the Egy...
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...DAMNATION!'

No device of the printer's art, not even capital letters, can indicate the...
ELIZABETH PETERS

Though Emerson is a firm believer in the equality of the female sex, he has some secret reservations...
ELIZABETH PETERS

God help the poor mummy who encounters you, Peabody,” he said bitterly. “We ought to supply i...
ELIZABETH PETERS Everything has happened before - not once, but over and over again. We may not be able to solve our ...
ELIZABETH PETERS Nefret had always had an uncanny ability to read his thoughts. 'Did she cry?' she asked sweetly. 'An...
ELIZABETH PETERS Is is difficult to be angry with a gentleman who pays you compliments, even impertinent compliments....
ELIZABETH PETERS His masculinity was only too apparent
ELIZABETH PETERS ...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not m...
ELIZABETH PETERS He hesitated for a moment. Then he said softly, "I love you, Mother." He took my hand and kissed it,...
ELIZABETH PETERS Speculation,' I retorted, 'is never a waste of time. It clears away the deadwood in the thickets of ...
ELIZABETH PETERS I have never been able to understand how men can feel affection for individuals who are intent on ma...
ELIZABETH PETERS I have learned that particularly clever ideas do not always stand up under close scrutiny.
ELIZABETH PETERS Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within th...
RALPH PETERS I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've ser...
RALPH PETERS The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
RALPH PETERS Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those ar...
RALPH PETERS Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.
RALPH PETERS Jihad expands Islam's domain by any means available.
RALPH PETERS Social peace requires reciprocity.
RALPH PETERS When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'...
RALPH PETERS The great paradox of the 21st century is that, in this age of powerful technology, the biggest probl...
RALPH PETERS The M-1 is the best tank in the world, if you can get it to the war in time, if you have a Saddam Hu...
RALPH PETERS In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
RALPH PETERS I'm a hip-hop guy, and the first time I heard Eminem was in '96. He was on a record with Sha...
RUSSELL PETERS Indians are the second largest population in the world, but we're invisible on TV - everything i...
RUSSELL PETERS The first Broadway show I ever heard was the recording of Carousel, and it was a very vivid experien...
BERNADETTE PETERS Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the l...
ELLIS PETERS We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails...
TOM PETERS The workplace revolution that transformed the lives of blue-collar workers in the 1970s and 1980s is...
TOM PETERS Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i...
TOM PETERS I hate Bollywood. The movies are all garbage, just terrible. It's my opinion; obviously, there a...
RUSSELL PETERS If you look good, you can act in a Bollywood movie, you don't have to be able to act; and Aishwa...
RUSSELL PETERS I grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. I lived in Grand Blanc, Michigan for a year and that's when I ...
EVAN PETERS It all started in Michigan. My dad got a job in Michigan, so we all moved up there from St. Louis. I...
EVAN PETERS Only people who're positive enough to have friends have enemies. When you're as glum and morose as h...
ELLIS PETERS There is no such thing as a minor lapse of integrity
TOM PETERS Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because th...
CHARLES PETERS I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.
BERNADETTE PETERS You'd look out and there'd be little babies watching the show, and boys and girls. They love...
BERNADETTE PETERS On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to b...
RUSSELL PETERS Celebrate what you want to see more of.
TOM PETERS As a consumer, you want to associate with brands whose powerful presence creates a halo effect that ...
TOM PETERS Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in ...
TOM PETERS Regardless of age, regardless of position, regardless of the business we happen to be in, all of us ...
TOM PETERS If you really want to kill morale, have layoffs every two months for the next two years.
TOM PETERS The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and sym...
TOM PETERS The whole secret to our success is being able to con ourselves into believing that we're going t...
TOM PETERS Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people...
TOM PETERS South Africa has all the tools to compete in the new global village - an eager workforce, ready to t...
TOM PETERS Business is about people. It's about passion. It's about bold ideas, bold small ideas or bol...
TOM PETERS Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct.
TOM PETERS 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, drea...
TOM PETERS Communication is everyone's panacea for everything.
TOM PETERS Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
TOM PETERS The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity.
TOM PETERS Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
TOM PETERS Everyone has a chance to learn, improve, and build up their skills.
TOM PETERS Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it w...
TOM PETERS The magic formula that successful businesses have discovered is to treat customers like guests and e...
TOM PETERS Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
TOM PETERS If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
TOM PETERS Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processe...
TOM PETERS 'In Search of Excellence' was an afterthought, the runt of the McKinsey consulting litter, a...
TOM PETERS Animals speak with pure affection. It's important to me to get something going in NY so we can get t...
BERNADETTE PETERS I think that the more and more people connect to them, then we'll realize what an invaluable spirit ...
BERNADETTE PETERS Into the Woods.
BERNADETTE PETERS Sondheim Etc. Etc.: Bernadette Peters Live at Carnegie Hall (The Rest of It),
BERNADETTE PETERS It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life,
BERNADETTE PETERS Mary and I are delighted that Broadway Barks continues to be such a popular event, and we are deeply...
BERNADETTE PETERS Annie Get Your Gun.
BERNADETTE PETERS Knowing it was my solo debut at Carnegie Hall and looking out at the audience and knowing that we we...
BERNADETTE PETERS When I grew up in the '60s, your hair had to be straight and you had to be skinny and have no boobs,...
BERNADETTE PETERS That wasn't something I was very proud of. It was just stupid. I got caught up in the moment.
ANDREW PETERS We could play the same team 25 times. It doesn't matter. We have to play our best hockey. We have to...
ANDREW PETERS He knows the way the game is played, and he knows he has to fight to keep a career. He's obviously v...
ANDREW PETERS I might ask him how his game went, but other than that we don't talk much about hockey. I ask him fo...
ANDREW PETERS My first season at Buffalo, Geoff was at Rochester and I would come down from Buffalo to visit him a...
ANDREW PETERS It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And kn...
BERNADETTE PETERS It breaks my heart to see these young, really talented bands getting chewed up into the system. I re...
MIKE PETERS In my career, there have been three things that were challenging: playing gay; playing a Jewish woma...
BERNADETTE PETERS I actually put peanut butter on my bagel. I really like peanut butter and I like to ruin the bagel. ...
EVAN PETERS Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
ELLIS PETERS For the blue-collar worker, the driving force behind change was factory automation using programmabl...
TOM PETERS Management is about arranging and telling. Leadership is about nurturing and enhancing.
TOM PETERS If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.
TOM PETERS Mittelstand companies are incredibly focused and almost always family-run. The young men and women g...
TOM PETERS We will not be beaten. But we may be shamed and embarrassed on a needlessly long road to victory.
RALPH PETERS You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS I think it's harder to go from comedy to drama than from drama to comedy. Seeing you dramatic al...
EVAN PETERS I would get bullied a lot. You know, it was the '70s and '80s, so it was a lot of racism bac...
RUSSELL PETERS The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.
ELLIS PETERS I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sen...
ELLIS PETERS I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay '...
MIKE PETERS We spent two weeks that I call two weeks of tears--my veil of tears.
BROCK PETERS [Peters paid tribute to Peck after Peck's death in 2003.] In art there is compassion, in compassion ...
BROCK PETERS I worked over the years in many, many productions, but no-one ever again called me to welcome me abo...
BROCK PETERS [In one courtroom scene, in which Robinson is asked by his lawyer whether he has committed the rape,...
BROCK PETERS I have been here a long time, and I have seen this cycle happen before. I'll wait awhile and see if ...
BROCK PETERS In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and l...
BROCK PETERS In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and l...
BROCK PETERS [He initially clashed with the autocratic director.] One day he chewed me out in front of a lot of p...
BROCK PETERS [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS [Acclaimed by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 greatest U.S. films of the last century,...
BROCK PETERS I guess creepy comes natural to me - I hate to say that.
EVAN PETERS Ideally I'd like to be working steadily as an actor: movies, a TV series, that sort of thing. I&...
RUSSELL PETERS Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.
TOM PETERS I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is.
RUSSELL PETERS We are also moving forward with our plans to lease eight branch sites in Hillsborough, Pasco, Polk, ...
BRIAN PETERS While these new locations will temporarily decrease short-term profitability, they should provide so...
BRIAN PETERS Over the past 12 months, we have expanded our loan portfolio and anticipate that because of the high...
BRIAN PETERS One of the primary purposes of this rapid branch expansion has been to take advantage of opportuniti...
BRIAN PETERS I admire the guys who can do it with as little technology as possible, two turntables and a micropho...
BRIAN PETERS We've had some very intoxicated people not know where their car was or if they drove a car that nigh...
BRIAN PETERS World Title Fight Night
BRIAN PETERS This will be Bernard's first twelve round fight and Wilders will represent a new kind of challenge. ...
BRIAN PETERS If it zips through, we'll be in good shape, but if it slows down, additional rain can only aggravate...
BRIAN PETERS Although Wilders seemed to be a bigger threat on paper, I don't think we can take Hughes for granted...
BRIAN PETERS This tournament should help them out.
BOB PETERS He was around here for a couple of weeks. Everything seemed normal. He just tended to himself. What ...
BOB PETERS He was around here for a couple of weeks. Everything seemed normal. He just tended to himself. ... W...
BOB PETERS We estimate the economic impact at $3 million.
BOB PETERS These items carry a full 12 month warranty, the same as our new equipment. To re-use equipment succe...
BOB PETERS We also clean up the cabinets and if necessary repaint them, before holding them in stores awaiting ...
BOB PETERS A fire engine from the 1940s wouldn't have the same pump power. The tank wouldn't hold as much water...
BILL PETERS [Spokane enters the week with a 1-1 record after two weeks of the regular season. After dropping the...
BILL PETERS Jimmy was solid. He made some big saves at key times and earned a very good win, ... That is exactal...
BILL PETERS The pre-season has been long and we've had a lot of practices but the guys are energetic and excited...
BILL PETERS The system we have in place worked just the way it should. It was a little inconvenient.
CAROL PETERS It's similar to what would happen in your home if you didn't have circuit breakers in place. You'd b...
CAROL PETERS This is a prescribed action that we do to support the electric grid. Certain areas will be experienc...
CAROL PETERS What it does is unite the arts groups. A lot of times there are different groups in Gilroy and they'...
CAROL PETERS We really want to protect the public from a potential hazard especially with situation of grass fire...
CAROL PETERS There will certainly be new courses in that area. It may also impact the existing interdisciplinary ...
CATHERINE PETERS Our hope with this initiative is to establish some cohesion to the existing activities that will all...
CATHERINE PETERS We have existing strengths in engineering and life sciences that we would like to bring together.
CATHERINE PETERS We are at the stage now where we're discussing with those individuals.
CATHERINE PETERS The intent is to hire an individual who can both foster connections with the existing research in en...
CATHERINE PETERS The San Diego region in many ways is defined by our relationship with the ocean. It's our front ...
SCOTT PETERS Earth Day should encourage us to reflect on what we are doing to make our planet a more sustainable ...
SCOTT PETERS You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS Underpromise; overdeliver.
TOM PETERS Leaders don't create followers, they create more leaders.
TOM PETERS Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
MARGARET PETERS Nothing is more pleasing and engaging than the sense of having conferred benefits. Not even the grat...
ELLIS PETERS You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
BERNADETTE PETERS We added 'recreation' to the name to reflect our complete line of outdoor accessories and a line of ...
WAYNE PETERS Inspiring visions rarely (I'm tempted to say never) include numbers.
TOM PETERS Supporting the entrepreneurial spirit is our best chance for economic progress.
SCOTT PETERS You need to look at what can be done in Fort Macleod and district that would give you some profile, ...
LEONA PETERS George M. is where I met my dear friend Joel Grey. We connected at rehearsal one day during a five-m...
BERNADETTE PETERS God made me, God made you..but then again God made gunpowder and kerosene too.
JORDAN PETERS Some film actors want to sit back and look at every scene and all that crap. No, you're an actor...
CLARKE PETERS [In one courtroom scene, in which Robinson is asked by his lawyer whether he has committed the rape,...
BROCK PETERS We're definitely not old because we only have two seniors, but we also have three juniors who starte...
NATALIE PETERS "I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a se...
ELLIS PETERS We believe that there is a growing awareness of the dangers of secondhand smoke and that smoking in ...
CATHY PETERS I Don't Like What I Do, I Love What I Do!
JOHN PETERS I want to personally express my gratitude to the citizens of Waller County for the support and court...
CHERYL PETERS Stand-up and boxing are very similar. You're the only one out there, you're going into a fig...
RUSSELL PETERS Good managers have a bias for action.
TOM PETERS I think a lot of people mistake my confidence on stage for cockiness in real life, and that's ac...
RUSSELL PETERS We?re just plain against it. It?s a David and Goliath situation. We?re just the little people who li...
DAN PETERS I love 'Some Enchanted Evening', and 'If I Loved You'. And as I sing them more and m...
BERNADETTE PETERS I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has alway...
TOM PETERS In San Diego, our local innovation economy is a thriving industry employing thousands of highly skil...
SCOTT PETERS Anybody who is an entrepreneur is a person who essentially has impaired judgment. The odds of succes...
TOM PETERS If you look at the empirical findings, the biggest competition is not between states. It's between c...
ALAN PETERS The retailers who get these economic-development incentives seem to be gaining in ways that they sho...
ALAN PETERS Retail locates not because of incentives. It locates because there are people there to buy stuff. It...
ALAN PETERS Jessica Lange is a sweetheart, the nicest lady in the world. She has a Poodle named Jack.
EVAN PETERS And I love Jennifer Lawrence. She's a total fox. And such a good actress. It's ridiculous.
EVAN PETERS In Mark's situation, he wasn't able to take care of the dog. Our clients have to be able to take car...
AL PETERS It was close ? a couple pounds.
AL PETERS It's amazing how the people still relate to the team. Older people in town went to those games, and ...
AL PETERS Comprehensive immigration reform would reduce the deficit and help grow the economy.
SCOTT PETERS Yeah, it was a little slick. But some of these guys when they put helmets on turn into idiots, too.
TIMOTHY PETERS They come in and they actually fly the instrument approach to verify the signals put out by the inst...
JIM PETERS It was exhilarating. If you were talented, it was easy to rise through the ranks if you knew what yo...
DIANA PETERS This incident proves how powerful an influx and influence of crime writing from other countries has ...
BARBARA PETERS She has a nice voice. And the personality of the author needs to come through. She had a lot of humo...
BARBARA PETERS But I love Halloween, and I love that feeling: the cold air, the spooky dangers lurking around the c...
EVAN PETERS All business success rests on something labeled a sale, which at least momentarily weds company and ...
TOM PETERS When you put it in context, they happen very infrequently. But we don't want to see any.
JIM PETERS Unless you walk out into the unknown, the odds of making a profound difference in your life are pret...
TOM PETERS It'll be interesting to see what happens in the next 24 to 48 hours. I think it'll be a big decision...
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