Maajid Nawaz quote: "I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college."

These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, som...
ALICE SEBOLD

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well...
HARRIET BEECHER STOWE

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well...
JOHN STEINBECK

I came to love, I came into my own.
THEODORE ROETHKE

I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go...
W. H. DAVIES

Coming to the Hope straight out of college is the best move for me right now in my life as I am simp...
KAYLA BURT

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a ...
JOHN HURT

I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best.
JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT

As far as how I create games, I'm just reflecting what I feel, the things I have in my mind. I p...
HIDEO KOJIMA

How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS

I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue...
PAT CONROY

The love and passion I had for the game was my key. I never had that taken out of me by my parents o...
BOBBY ORR

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a ...
JOHN HURT

But it had happened. I had followed Delia's van that night, I had told Wes my Truths, I had stepped ...
SARAH DESSEN

As I started doing really well, some college coaches started to notice me. By the end of my junior y...
CASSANDRA PARTYKA

My parents were, had a marriage of passion, and the passion was about their religious beliefs. They ...
PHIL JACKSON

i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL

Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW

There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ...
ROALD DAHL

I had made up my mind at the end of the summer last year that this would be my final season in coach...
JOE BLAIR

My passions, when roused, are intense, and, so long as I am activated by them, nothing equals my imp...
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU

This thing comes to me, not by the hearing of the ear, but by my own personal experience: I know of ...
CHARLES SPURGEON

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because...
ERYKAH BADU

I was inquiring as to a little more detail, and he informed me that he had been told that the presid...
QUIN SNYDER

As far as my putting, literally 10 minutes before I went out for my first round, this feel came back...
K.J. CHOI

A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD

Some things happen, and this will make me mentally stronger. I've always had a lot of faith in God a...
RUDY JARAMILLO

Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA

I married a homecoming queen, which means I know as much about college football as the next person, ...
DAN JENKINS

I wanted a love thick with time, as inscrutable as if a lathe had carved it from night and as famili...
ROSHANI CHOKSHI

On this walk I'd had so much time and space to actually figure out who I was without my mother's inf...
ASPEN MATIS

Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said:
I am not commanding you, but I ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me.
NICHOLAS SPARKS

As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE

You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them.
HARPER LEE

I think with this whole influx into immediacy -- everyone is short term in their outlook. I made a t...
EDWIN MOSES

I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I wa...
V. S. NAIPAUL

It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a...
ANUJ SOMANY

Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm...
SUPERNA BATHEJA

I had tremendous passion for the game. I felt that I was getting along with many of the people and I...
DAVID BEHRING

It took me longer than what I wanted, ... but I started to feel better about my abilities. I started...
CARSON PALMER

When I first went to college, I went to Western Michigan. I had been rejected by a bunch of schools ...
ALEXANDER KOCH

I lost the life that I knew, and I really had to rethink my future and think about my core values an...
AMY PURDY

Directing plays lacked the immediacy and connection to real world events that journalism offered; jo...
R. J. CUTLER

I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, an...
SAM WORTHINGTON

2.5.03.02.005: Generally speaking, if you fiddle with something, it will break. Don't.
JASPER FFORDE

I'm lucky that I hooked up with my husband because he not only helps me but there's a joy for him as...
SUSAN LUCCI

My life has shifted to different levels financially, in terms of fame as a result of being blessed e...
TREY SONGZ

The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE

When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Prudence asked further, “Do you not still carry some of the baggage from the place you escaped?”...
JOHN BUNYAN

When I started, I had a really hard time getting work. It was the mid- to late-nineties. There was t...
NATALIE ZEA

My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
ALEK WEK

I went to church as a kid, but it was as much a social thing as anything going to the youth group wi...
BAILEY CHASE

Last year, I came in as a freshman just hoping to play and I had a good season. This year, I know th...
COREY BROWN

I've had enough of being a gay icon! I've had enough of all this hard work, because, since I came ou...
IAN MCKELLAN

When I went to college, I went to a junior college. I wanted to go to the University of Alabama but ...
DEONTAY WILDER

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply ...
SANDRA CISNEROS

Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye....
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI

I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars worth when they go to a movie, and that the...
SAM WORTHINGTON

When I came home for the summer after my first year of college, I told my mother that my best friend...
JANE SMILEY

I know that a pretty doll, a fair fool, might do well enough for the honeymoon; but when passion coo...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë

My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing mach...
ALICE WALKER

Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...

It is my misfortune - and probably my delight - to use things as my passions tell me. What a miserab...
PABLO PICASSO

I liked Edinburgh as a university in a way that I'd never enjoyed King's College London. I r...
PETER HIGGS

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not ...
ESTHER WILLIAMS

In recent months, the emotional aspect has become as necessary to me as the physical. It amuses me, ...
ANNA ZAIRES

Nothing is ever as good or as bad as it appears to be.
JEFFREY FRY

That will be a first for me as well, first road trip as a college head coach. It will be a good test...
GREG HETHERINGTON

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recover...
KEANU REEVES

I think my writing was certainly shaped from having lived in a place like Niverville as well as by t...
DAVID BERGEN

I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that ...
PLUTARCH

That's what college is for - getting as many bad decisions as possible out of the way before you're ...
JEPH JACQUES

I beseech thee, O Lord, let me have understanding: For it was not my mind to be curious of the high ...
COMPTON GAGE

I was so stoked I got it out early. I was nervous because I fell on the first hit of my first run, b...
SHAUN WHITE

I’ve been told that I cannot change shit, so I might as well stop torturing myself. My emotions ar...
ASAAD ALMOHAMMAD

I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C.

Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
CRE

There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ...
DWIGHT W. HAYES

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON

I really stumbled into this. When I started at this college, I had no expectation of necessarily doi...
GARY KESSLER

I was never pushed into the religion by my mother or anyone else. I made up my own mind when I was o...
JANET JACKSON

The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

LOVE is and will ALWAYS be the greatest GIFT ƸӜƷ
M.G. WELLS

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a ch...
ERIC CARLE

As a kid I was deeply curious as to what college life would be like. Now that I am a university prof...
JAMES KAKALIOS

A man came up to me on the street and said I used to be messed up out of my mind on drugs but now I'...
GEORGE CARLIN

From very early on, I had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian. It was my passion; it was my goal...
MIKE BINDER

You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the...
GEORGE MACDONALD

I wanted to write a song about war and that classic 'We want you' recruitment style from the...
TROYE SIVAN

It was a huge play for me because I really owe a lot to the team by accepting me coming straight fro...
AUNDRAE ALLISON

She said that it was a mistake to have made as few superficial friends as I have done in my life, an...
RICHARD FORD

I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH

Lᴏᴠᴇ ɪs ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡɪɴᴅ ... Yᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ'ᴛ sᴇᴇ ɪᴛ, ʙᴜᴛ ʏᴏ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS

She filed the image away as an excellent and insulting question to ask the earl at an utterly inappr...
GAIL CARRIGER

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