If a boy became sick he walked alone; the others were afraid to catch what he had, and did not want to know him too well for he would surely die soon. We did not want his voice in our heads.
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Related She did not want to know what charm he had used to make her love him so deeply. She did not wan... PENELOPE MARZEC Dean did not want to see anyone right now, but if he had to make a list of people he did want to see... T F LINCE His pitches had gotten up and certainly we did not want him to extend any further than he had extend... LLOYD MCCLENDON You could definitely hear in his voice that he was sorry for what he did and he expressed that he ha... JARED DUDLEY He did not want to be buried in Austria, as he was afraid his grave will be mutilated. SIMON WIESENTHAL The boy did absolutely what you'd want children to do. Quite honestly, he should be commended for th... FRANK HANCOCK He never counted the favors he did or where he would cash in his chips. He has all these people who ... LONNIE ALI He wondered if this, more than guilt, was what had been holding him back. It wasn't that he was puni... HEIDI CULLINAN The boy broke into tears, saying the man he loved walked away from him after finding out he was gay.... LIU SHUJIE He did not want the life his father had lived. He changed diapers, he drove a minivan. JEFFREY LICHTMAN Despite what some people have said, President Bush did not want black people to die in New Orleans. ... SCOTT MCCLELLAN Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduce... JUNIPERO SERRA In his statement to us, (he said) when he felt dogs might be possibly ill, he would send them to hum... RICHARD GERBASI He did not want to play. He wanted to meet in the real world the unsubstantial image which his soul ... JAMES JOYCE He had lost Will Herondale. And he did not know if he could ever get him back. CASSANDRA CLARE He looked, well, sturdier than he used to. His shoulders were square and, naturally, broader than be... VICTORIA KAHLER He did not die in the night, / He did not die in the day, / But in the morning twilight / His spirit... WILLIAM MORRIS ...his soul (was) ringing like a well-struck bell. But it was a bell that rang with more than joy an... PAUL HOFFMAN Scott was punk rock and basically we were just worried about his health. We got kind of midway throu... BRANDON THOMAS Dave always said, very clearly, that if anything ever happened to him, he wanted the program to go o... DOROTHY BROWN Did Superman really want to save the world, or did he just feel like he had to? Would he much rather... GERARD WAY He had the vanity to believe men did not like him – while men simply did not know him. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT We want to know what happened over there, what happened during that time. Did he see something? Did ... GUY LAJEUNESSE I wish everybody had the drive he had. He never did anything wrong on the field. I'd never seen him ... YOGI BERRA Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather tha... SPENCER W. KIMBALL We did what was right ... If this person had been innocent, he would have walked out of there. GREG BERATLIS The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because... VO NGUYEN GIAP I want him to pay for what he did to my child. LAURA FLEMING Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees. ROD STEWART Did he say that? What was he thinking of? How did he know to tell the trustee to sell it [his HCA st... KATHLEEN CLARK How many times had Paladin looked into this human face, its features animated by neurological impuls... ANNALEE NEWITZ Did it ever occur to you that when he told you he would come back he was lying? Many a man has done ... SAM J. CHARLTON I know Reggie too well. If we don't put a little restraint on him, he'll kill himself to do it. This... PATRICK NIX She alone had been blind to his merit. Why? Because he loved her and she did not love him. What was ... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM But memories were fragile and not to be trusted. They were a weight that Faolin did not need to carr... MADELINE CLAIRE FRANKLIN He wants to become the number one opponent of a government that is already weak. This was the only p... CARLOS LARREATEGUI We would love for him to come back. He did a great job. He's a really sweet guy, and he had a great ... DAVID GOYER We only had a brief time to talk, ... He accepts responsibility for what he did, and is terribly, te... JAMES BURKE He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for b... SCOTT STABILE I want to know what the cause was, you know, did he come through his barrier or what? THOMAS TAYLOR Did he have his eye turned toward history? Perhaps. Perhaps he did not want to continue to be either... CHARLES BULLOCK Did he have his eye turned toward history? Perhaps, ... Perhaps he did not want to continue to be ei... CHARLES BULLOCK He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it aroun... HARRY CREWS Christ did not ask or want to be what he was not. DEJAN STOJANOVIC If we called him up it's because he is capable of playing. We did not want to rest him for the first... JO MASO At one point he had indicated he wanted to pair, ... He just decided that he did not want to pair. PHIL BERGER But now she could not bear the way she sounded. She was not a person anyone could love. .... PETER CAREY There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... JOSEPH HELLER I remember that, boy, oh, boy, we were really worried about him. He was a very powerful runner, but ... AL FRACASSA He could not die when trees were green, for he loved the time too well. JOHN CLARE He could not die when trees were green, / For he loved the time too well. JOHN CLARE Dave was well-meaning, but he did the test pretty much on his own. BRIAN RUST As soon as I approached him he said, 'Don't worry, I'll be okay,' ... He didn't want any sympathy. H... JOE BUGEL It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM My own participation in the campaign was delayed by the death of my son Calvin, which occurred on th... CALVIN COOLIDGE I thought he did exceptionally well. I was shocked. He's still learning but most of the night we lef... MIKE MARTZ For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Well, if you weren't flirting with him"-his voice had now grown a little plaintive-"who was he, and ... ANNA GODBERSEN Her innocence was maddening. She should know. She should know what her steward had done. She should ... MARIE RUTKOSKI This is kind of new ground for the person that did this, and he does not want to attract too much at... JACK GREENE Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference ... C.S. LEWIS And what else would he get into? Kavinsky's dead so--Jesus Chrirst, listen to me. Jesus Christ." The... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. Impatient and judgmental and stubborn and often ... MEREDITH DURAN The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign. ANATOLE FRANCE If a man leaves little children behind him, it is as if he did not die MOROCCAN PROVERB They were mistaken if they thought he did not kill her because he loved her too much. At that moment... JORGE AMADO I waited for him to come out. He didn't. I considered going in after him, but knew the fact that I h... DERRICK JENSEN He didn't act any different off the field than he did on and that is why we had the success we did. ... BILLY HUGHES The President is also captured in a well-worn TV news clip, making a boilerplate response to a quest... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS Jesus died too soon. If he had lived to my age he would have repudiated his doctrine. FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE No thoughtful man ever came to the end of his life, and had time and a little space of calm from whi... WOODROW WILSON This woman was consuming him, bit by bit. She was becoming the reason and the reward of his existenc... DANIELLE MONSCH Be careful how you phrase that. I'm not surprised how he's playing and I didn't want to let him go. ... MIKE HOLMGREN He cocked his head to the side. "Did he die well?" "He died screaming." Charlotte's bluntness s... CASSANDRA CLARE We must take arms each and every day, perhaps knowing that the battle cannot be entirely won, but fi... RAY BRADBURY He did it with pride, ... And I'm glad my brother did it, with pride he stand up for who he is to de... CHAI VANG The telephone was not his favorite object, and more than once he had considered getting rid of his. ... PAUL AUSTER He turns toward me. I want to touch him, but I’m afraid of his bareness; afraid that he will make ... VERONICA ROTH We are getting better. Our 189-pounder (Brown) did a great job. Had he not done what he did, we woul... BOBBY DEBERRY He is absolutely not guilty and did not strike that woman. The last thing this man would want to do ... ORLANDO GONZALEZ He is a very intelligent individual, and every capable. There were times when you didn't want to but... HAL PATTON If he played in a system where he had to constantly have his back to the basket, he would not have b... DAVE ROGERS But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do ... ELISABETH ELLIOT He surely did bring hither all the beings (worlds), he surely did encompass all the beings (worlds).... ATHARVA VEDA A homeless man visited my store today. The few quarters that he had in his pocket he invested on boo... BESA KOSOVA Imagine if Mike walked away and did not join the U.S. Army Air Force because he was too short. Hundr... BRENT DRIGGERS [The boy] does not seem to understand what he has done, ... In the interview with the police, he did... ARTHUR BUSCH It was not only Odette's indifference, however, that he must take pains to circumvent; it was also, ... MARCEL PROUST If we did not know then we would not die. SORIN CERIN When I first met him, he did not care if a friend did not fit into his world, because at that time h... ANAïS NIN Jaques was only what he was; but from a distance he became something more, became everything to me, ... SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to los... RUTA SEPETYS St. Paul did not want the sufferings encountered by being a Christian to discourage or dishearten an... MOTHER ANGELICA No man would listen to you talk if he did not know that it was his turn next. EDGAR WATSON HOWE If God did not want me to be aldulterous, why did he make all these gorgeous women? HERMAN VAN VEEN I know Tony and I knew he had done something he was ashamed of. I could see it in his face. So, I to... JIM LARRANAGA He didn't. You know, he said he was being provocative. He has a background in philosophy and the ide... JAKE TAPPER But there she was, standing next to his mother, so beautiful, so radiant that he could not see anyon... JULIA QUINN President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave t... WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Once we face our fear, once we treat our anxiety itself as a thing, we can then choose otherwise. In... DAVID W. JONES
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DAVE MORRIS Joy comes from places you least expect it. It's usually the simple things, like watching my son ... DAVE GAHAN If a woman has to choose between catching a fly ball and saving an infant's life, she will choose to... DAVE BARRY The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion, economic status, or... DAVE BARRY The waves of love roll throughout the Universe, and overflow in our hearts.. Everything is ONE! DAVE ZEBIAN I like the relaxed way in which the Japanese approach religion. I think of myself as basically a mor... DAVE BARRY I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afte... DAVE PELZER 'Breaking Bad' and 'The Shield' were planned right from the start so that their narr... DAVE MORRIS I found there's a fairly blatant racism in America that's already there, and I don't thi... DAVE MATTHEWS I want to make hand-held music, undiminished by the need to make everybody in the world listen at on... DAVE SITEK We all have to die some day, if we live long enough. DAVE FARBER We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless... DAVE BARRY The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitutio... DAVE BARRY There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slu... DAVE MATTHES ...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church. DAVE MATTHES I am not the only person who uses his computer mainly for the purpose of diddling with his computer. DAVE BARRY Quantity is what you count, quality is what you count on. DAVE BARRY It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know ... DAVE BARRY You had me at "We'll make it look like an accident." DAVE BARRY Wear short sleeves! Support your right to bare arms! DAVE BARRY I'd take a nerf bullet for you. DAVE BARRY What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my car... DAVE BARRY The first person who decided to say a word instead of throwing a rock can be considered the starter ... DAVE BARRY It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have... DAVE BARRY I was always taught to respect my elders and I've now reached the age when I don't have anybody to r... DAVE BARRY Painting: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic. DAVE BARRY I may not know Karate, but I know crazy and I'm not afraid to use it. DAVE BARRY In beer there is freedom, in wine there is health, in cognac there is power and in water there is ba... DAVE BARRY Wake up naked drinking coffee Making plans to change the world While the world is changing... DAVE MATTHEWS Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see wi... DAVE BARRY