Rebecca Stead
Related SAINT JEROME ST. JEROME We are waiting quietly in anticipation. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. DWAYNE CROMBIE SAINT JEROME They say, 'Don't look a gift horse in the mouth,' but when it's a Trojan horse, you do. ERIC JOHANSSON LEMONY SNICKET TAMMARA WEBBER FRANCINE RIVERS STEPHEN CHBOSKY FRANCINE RIVERS FRANCINE RIVERS The City Council kind of looked a gift horse in the mouth. And now we're not sure if the horse has g... ARI ADLER ILONA ANDREWS ZENDAYA , IN THE NEW REPUBLIC KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON SYLVESTER STALLONE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II QUEEN ELIZABETH II DEBBIE HARRY I've had a lot of glamour come my way in the last 10 years - you know, movie stars and mansions ... ANDRE DUBUS III JOHNNY WEIR PRINCE WILLIAM PRINCESS DIANA CATHERINE THE GREAT KATE MIDDLETON KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS KING JAMES I MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting. WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin. WALLIS SIMPSON KING SOLOMON FREDERICK THE GREAT
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Never look a gift horse in the mouth. 
Never look a gift horse in the mouth! 
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
[Lat., Noli equi dentes inspicere donati.] 
Never look a gift lion in the mouth. 
You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... 
If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. 
The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... 
On the other hand it was bad manners to look a gift horse in the mouth. Even if you're getting it fr... 
I've never had a body issue; I've never had a self-confidence issue, and there's been ve... 
I've told you I don't live and die by the polls. Thus, I will refrain from pointing out that we're n... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
I have two lovely sons and some good memories, but I've had a rather tumultuous personal life. I... 
It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. 
My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... 
I have to be seen to be believed. 
I've had some lovely extraordinary experiences on New Year's Eve. 
I've always had a loud mouth, and for that I've gotten a lot of attention. I did falter in s... 
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... 
Family is the most important thing in the world. 
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... 
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... 
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. 
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. 
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... 
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. 
It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to know: the principles of things escape our most... 
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ... 
More and more I think of privatisation as being not just about the takeover of resources and power b... 
Radio was used powerfully by Josef Goebbels to disseminate Nazi propaganda, and just as powerfully b... 
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig... 
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend... 
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... 
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an... 
We all drew on the comfort which is given out by the major works of Mozart, which is as real and mat... 
The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ... 
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. 
Being classy is my teenage rebellion. 
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they ri... 
There are people all over the world who like to write fan letters in the voice of their pet: 'He... 
Every year in China, Internet executives are officially rewarded for their 'patriotism.' 
It's a controversial issue: many feminists reasonably worry that by taking the concentration off... 
'Friday' is about hanging out with friends, having fun. I felt like it was my personality in... 
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I like walking because it is slow, and I suspect that the mind, like the feet, works at about three ... 
Amanda, you finally decided to answer the phone,” her mom exclaimed after picking up at the first ... 
We live in such an age of chatter and distraction. Everything is a challenge for the ears and eyes. 
Contemplate the good things in your life and be grateful for them. 
The ones who hate me the most are the ones who don't scare me. 