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If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could po...
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I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the...
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WINSTON CHURCHILL I had everything in my hands. I had 40-15 up. I felt if I could get the game, I would win the match.
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My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
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If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
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But one thing was quite clear…” he wrote. “[B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I h...
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I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem...
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And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could.
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Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rat...
RICHARD MATHESON![]()
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister ...
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I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, dig...
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If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT ...
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I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�...
J.D. ROBB I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
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He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.
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I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very g...
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If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would.
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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.
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My pulse was racing, my skin searing, and suddenly I felt light-headed. I sat back and put hands ove...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had...
MA LONG And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything...
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If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.
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She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ...
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I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned a...
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For behold, I, God, have asuffered• these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would...
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If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle.
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I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter
GAYLE FORMAN I just felt if he was going to improve as a bowler he had to learn to get into the pitch and bang th...
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When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever cha...
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KARA SWISHER The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It see...
MAUDE ADAMS They kept me at my seniority. I'm in the same place as if I had never left.
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And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at ...
JO BRAND![]()
At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is...
LONI LOVE My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at th...
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I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so no...
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SCOTTIE PIPPEN Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes
his head as h...
OSAMU DAZAI I can often enjoy an interview even if the subject doesn't particularly interest me, as long as he h...
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BEN CURTIS It was just one of those days where even though the swing didn't feel as good as it could have been,...
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If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.
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CHAD KILGER I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ...
JUAN DIXON Jeff appeared to me that he had it. If I thought I could have caught it, I would have. I though he h...
CASEY KOTCHMAN If I had known, I wouldn't have given them to him, even though he loved them.
DIANE YOMTOV
J.D. JORDAN
That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a du... NICHOLAS SPARKS Even though I wasn't sure I could make it as an indie, almost immediately I felt as if a weight ...
EMMA HOLLY It felt as if I had lived all my life inside a flat painting and only now had I stepped into the rea...
ROSAMUND HODGE
I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I&#... OPRAH WINFREY Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE
Even if I was well - I must make myself as good a Philosopher as possible. Now I have had opportuni... JOHN KEATS My heart no longer felt as if it belonged to me. It now felt as it had been stolen, torn from my che...
MEREDITH T. TAYLOR I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experie...
YEONMI PARK
If I had felt then as I feel now, or as I felt a few years after I had married her, nothing could po... ISAAC ASIMOV
I remembered the pain as clearly as if I were shifting — the pain of loss. I felt the agony of the... MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I felt as if I had no control over what I said, as if loathsome, ugly words were waiting inside me l... GLORIA WHELAN
He had loved the library, and had felt, as a boy, as though it had a kind of sentience, and perhaps ... LAINI TAYLOR
I felt as though I was driving in a tunnel. The whole circuit became a tunnel... I had reached such ... AYRTON SENNA
Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has al... LEO TOLSTOY I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. E...
DARIO FO
Even though I was very shy, I found I could get onstage if I had a new identity. DAVID BOWIE
When you took your seat I felt as if a woman had come into my bathroom and I had only the sponge to ... WINSTON CHURCHILL I had everything in my hands. I had 40-15 up. I felt if I could get the game, I would win the match.
NADIA PETROVA I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had...
T. SCOTT MCLEOD
I left school with basically nothing, I was a special needs kid. I did feel as though my school had ... JAMIE OLIVER
I felt that what I had been standing on had collapsed and that I had nothing left under my feet. Wha... LEO TOLSTOY
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion. ALEK WEK
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. RAY ROMANO If I could sing, I wouldn't be a guitarist.
ROBIN TROWER
I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squee... MITCH ALBOM
I felt a Cleaving in my Mind—As if my Brain had split—
I tried to match it—Seam by ...
EMILY DICKINSON
Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of c... JEFFREY EUGENIDES When Coach (Augie) Garrido asked me if I could close if he needed me, I was fine with that. That out...
ADRIAN ALANIZ
If I’d had any doubts about how Archer felt about me, they were eradicated when I saw the look on ... RACHEL HAWKINS
But one thing was quite clear…” he wrote. “[B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I h... ERIK LARSON I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.
ROD MCKUEN
I had to get over [him]. For months now, a stone had been sitting on my heart. I'd shed a lot of tea... KRISTAN HIGGINS In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable...
MARYAM D'ABO I want to live my life carrying my memories with me. Even if those memories are painful, even if tho...
MOMIJI SOHMA (FRUITS BASKET) Some of the workers had expressed an interest in having the ability to organize, and I felt that the...
COMMISSIONER SAM HART Diabetes used to affect me a lot. My sugar level was high and I had back cramps. I felt at times as ...
TOM CHILLEMI It's an amazing feeling. It's the best I've played in a long, long time. I really felt comfortable o...
ARNAUD CLEMENT
I remembered Owen telling me how music had saved him in Phoenix, that it drowned everything out, and... SARAH DESSEN I thought even though we lost that we still had the momentum.
AMY HOWIE
I was lucky. My family is wonderful. And it's funny, because most of my best friends come from v... SOPHIA BUSH I am writing in despair. I am cursing the day of my birth just like Job. I would have wished a quick...
GAO ZHAN
I remember laughing at that moment, and I remember my son frowning at me in puzzlement. What I remem... BERNARD CORNWELL I felt like it was my time to go, even though I was extremely upset that I had lost this opportunity...
JULIE LELAND If heaven had granted me five more years, I could have become a real painter.
HOKUSAI KATSUSHIKA Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a ...
CHERYL STRAYED Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren't a state of being, but rather a ro...
CHERYL STRAYED
If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously as if from n... VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH
And still everything’s the same, even though I did my best to get as far away as I could. YOUNG-HA KIM
I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't wh... JOHNNY UNITAS My palm connected with the final looking-glass. A wave of brittle fractures rippled outward from the...
S.G. NIGHT Nothing today had done her any real harm, yet she felt as though her nerves had been flayed and left...
MARY ROBINETTE KOWAL
When had I tamed myself? It had been a lengthy apprenticeship, begun when I was as young as ten, and... DOMENICO STARNONE
Each memory was brought to life before me and within me. I could not avoid them. Neither could I rat... RICHARD MATHESON
If I had to resign every time the Cabinet disagrees with me, I could not last as a Defense Minister ... MOSHE DAYAN
I had never realized a woman could have to struggle to keep her hands off a man, but here I was, dig... CHARLAINE HARRIS
If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT ... HERMAN CAIN
I had that hole in me, that empty space. I could have lived my life with it, content enough. I wasn�... J.D. ROBB I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.
JOHN FRUSCIANTE
He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself. LOIS LOWRY
I had a funny feeling as I saw the house disappear, as though I had written a poem and it was very g... RAYMOND CHANDLER
If I could live in a cabaret, I would. If I could live in 'Moulin Rouge,' I would. RITA ORA
If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist. ENRICO FERMI I was much more interested in the orchestra than the piano, but I did become fairly proficient as a ...
ALAN HOVHANESS
My pulse was racing, my skin searing, and suddenly I felt light-headed. I sat back and put hands ove... MAGGIE STIEFVATER We are a motivated team, and there is nothing that can stop us from winning the title. Even if I had...
MA LONG And then, a strangely comforting thought trickled through me—I had nothing, so I could do anything...
RACHEL WARD Even paradise could become a prison if one had enough time to take notice of the walls.
MORGAN RHODES
If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. RAY ROMANO
She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which ... AYN RAND
I had really no sense of style. Everyone around me in my family had the sense of style - I learned a... CAITLYN JENNER
For behold, I, God, have asuffered• these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would... JESUS CHRIST
If I felt like a fish out of water in my family, I felt like a fish on Mars in Adam’s circle. GAYLE FORMAN
I meant it to be jokey, but it came out sounding bitter GAYLE FORMAN I just felt if he was going to improve as a bowler he had to learn to get into the pitch and bang th...
BRUCE REID
When my time comes, just skin me and put me up there on Trigger, just as though nothing had ever cha... ROY ROGERS Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - eve...
KARA SWISHER The delightful sense of importance that had been mine as a child actress was taken out of me. It see...
MAUDE ADAMS They kept me at my seniority. I'm in the same place as if I had never left.
JUAN BERRONES
And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at ... JO BRAND
At my job, my manager had a massive heart attack; we had layoffs. It made me realize that nothing is... LONI LOVE My dearest colleagues seem to become metamorphosed into snarling beasts if I as much as glance at th...
HARRY ELLIS DICKSON Growing up she had become used to allowing men the ability to curve themselves into question marks a...
R. Y.S. PEREZ
I had to, ... Tie my suit up, tie my tie and just get downstairs to my car as fast as I could, so no... NATE ROBINSON The odds were against me when I arrived at Central Arkansas. I was barely 6-foot-2 and didn't ha...
SCOTTIE PIPPEN Why can’t people get along without criticizing one another?” Urashima shakes
his head as h...
OSAMU DAZAI I can often enjoy an interview even if the subject doesn't particularly interest me, as long as he h...
ANTHONY DECURTIS It was just one of those days where even though the swing didn't feel as good as it could have been,...
BEN CURTIS It was just one of those days where even though the swing didn't feel as good as it could have been,...
BEN CURTIS
If I had any interest in coming back to baseball, it would be as a general manager and not as a mana... LOU BROCK
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive. SAMUEL GOLDWYN
That was what it felt like - as if one had always been in that place and never been bored although n... C.S. LEWIS I felt I was in clear. I thought I had an empty net when he took me down.
CHAD KILGER I didn't feel as if they always had me [as] part of their plans. It was like I was back on the back ...
JUAN DIXON Jeff appeared to me that he had it. If I thought I could have caught it, I would have. I though he h...
CASEY KOTCHMAN If I had known, I wouldn't have given them to him, even though he loved them.
DIANE YOMTOV
