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Related You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS The inscription on his gravestone had felt so wholly insufficient the moment she saw it. Just a name... STUART NADLER I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I think throughout the day; there are always lines or certain words, and I'll just keep notes in... TYLER JOSEPH Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work an... J. K. ROWLING With 'Captain America,' you might have three lines of dialogue the whole day. And there are ... CHRIS EVANS Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you. ALLY CARTER Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL The Pulitzer isn't a physical object. You can't hold it in your hand. You get some money ($7... JEFFREY EUGENIDES Trust In Every Words, And You Will Believe In Your Works. EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we ha... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Everything has happen, will happen and it's going to happen in one moment. There isn't even and time... DEYTH BANGER Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm sort of the comic relief after a hard day at work. My message is that it's OK to relax. LARRY KING Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in day out Success is the not the thing we will fi... AAMIR SARFRAZ (AAMIR RAJPUT KHAN) Death is tough for the people left behind on earth. PRATEEKSHA MALIK People in the real world always say, when something terrible happens, that the sadness and loss and ... FREDRIK BACKMAN When his wife was at his side, she was also in front of him, marking out the horizon of his life. No... MILAN KUNDERA She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out. BILL MURRAY Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Noseless and Handless, the Lannister Boys. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The world slides, the world goes, and death makes equal the rich and the poor BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA แต่การคิดเองเออเองก็มีประโยชน์อยู�... KISHIMI ICHIRO A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT People always start with vigor, deep aspirations and inspirations, but things that happen as we jour... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Stupidity is also a gift of God, but one mustn't misuse it. POPE JOHN PAUL II Humanity should question itself, once more, about the absurd and always unfair phenomenon of war, on... POPE JOHN PAUL II Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry a... POPE JOHN PAUL II Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore... prove ultimate... POPE JOHN PAUL II I kiss the soil as if I placed a kiss on the hands of a mother, for the homeland is our earthly moth... POPE JOHN PAUL II
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JOSEPH CAMPBELL An old Apache storyteller reminds us: JOSEPH CAMPBELL We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark... JOSEPH FARRELL Sometimes in politics one must duel with skunks, but no one should be fool enough to allow skunks to... JOSEPH CANNON We always plan too much and always think too little. JOSEPH SCHUMPETER To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and temp... JOSEPH CONRAD Philosophers call God the great unknown The great misknown is more like it! JOSEPH ROUX Perfection is the child of time. JOSEPH HALL Perhaps some of us have to go through dark and devious ways before we can find the river of peace or... JOSEPH CAMPBELL What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace. JOSEPH CONRAD There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them. JOSEPH ROUX Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows. JOSEPH JOUBERT There is always some frivolity in excellent minds; they have wings to rise, but also stray. JOSEPH JOUBERT Politeness is the flower of humanity. JOSEPH JOUBERT It is not true that democracy will always safeguard freedom of conscience better than autocracy. Wit... JOSEPH SCHUMPETER Monuments are the grappling-irons that bind one generation to another. JOSEPH JOUBERT There are men here and there to whom the whole of life is like an after-dinner hour with a cigar; ea... JOSEPH CONRAD Legislation, both statutory and constitutional, is enacted, it is true, from an experience of evils ... JOSEPH MCKENNA If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of ... JOSEPH FARRELL The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. JOSEPH JOUBERT Enjoy your happiness while you have it, and while, you have it do not too closely scrutinize its fou... JOSEPH FARRELL People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life... I think that what we're really seeki... JOSEPH CAMPBELL It seems to have had an order, to have been composed by someone, and those events that were merely a... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Life, the way it really is, is a battle not between Bad and Good but between Bad and Worse. JOSEPH BRODSKY What should I say about life? That it's long and abhors transparence. JOSEPH BRODSKY I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long. JOSEPH HELLER