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Related You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of... BETTY FRIEDAN You had a choice: you could either strain and look at things that appeared in front of you in the fo... KEN KESEY A woman is handicapped by her sex, and handicaps society, either by slavishly copying the pattern of... BETTY FRIEDAN 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 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 Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Sunsets are great. Sunrises are a mixed bag. You either got up way too early or went to bed way too ... MATT DILLON I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY 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. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON When we move, we are in a way de-structured by our movement toward something: we are both her... MURIEL BARBERY Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL You could feel things or you could find a way to shut down. But once you were feeling things, you co... ANN BRASHARES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I learned little save that most of the deeds, good and bad both, incurring opprobrium or plaudits or... WILLIAM FAULKNER Somethings that happen in life will either make you or break you but at the end of it, its by choice... KIMBERLY SHILENJE You could do it either way you want to do it, ... I could have 20 and Tiger could have 13. I mean, I... JACK NICKLAUS There's no question that you can explore aspects of yourself through roles that you play, and yo... ANNETTE BENING Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A lot of people are unfortunately left with that choice. It's either a bad choice or no choice at al... DEANE BEEBE There's no way we would be able to survive in the States with this business, ... It would cost too m... ALAN WONG Record companies would rather you stay dumb, not even think of it as a business, so they can either ... GEORGE CLINTON Ladies, never underestimate the value of thanking any man for being a "true gentleman," when he open... REBEKAH CYPHERS The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. MEISTER ECKHART I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than... NEIL GAIMAN It's not a bad idea, but when you look at the cost of a lot of things, you have to look at where it ... ARI ADLER Hurting someone OR being hurt by someone, the pain is yours either way....
Yet another bitter TRUTH ... SHAZIA SULTAN Impact resistant windows offer consumers a viable way to protect their homes. While this may mean sp... BOB MACEDA Sometimes work was just what you clocked into while you were falling in love. Sometimes sex was just... CHOIRE SICHA He would just get really upset about anything that you would say to him or try to, you know, show hi... DAVID BRADLEY To be or not to be is not a question of compromise. Either you be or you don't be. GOLDA MEIR All personal breakthroughs being with a change in beliefs. So how do we change? The most effective w... ANTHONY ROBBINS Part of being a champ is acting like a champ. You have to learn how to win and not run away when you... NANCY KERRIGAN Practice being kinder to yourself. Practice celebrating your accomplishments. Practice complimenting... AKIROQ BROST To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain... J.A. REDMERSKI Elinor had read countless stories in which the main characters fell sick at some point because they ... CORNELIA FUNKE I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES My technique in time trials is to start a little slower. I've made the mistake in the past of starti... FLOYD LANDIS And really, it hasn't hurt our CD sales. People out there look at the price of a download in a diffe... MARK BERRY Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER The first principle of cognitive therapy is that all your moods are created by your 'cognitions,... DAVID D. BURNS If you can predict where the market's going, just do what you can predict. If you can't, whi... KENNETH FISHER Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Time is so important.'so spend time doing something that you love.' make the most of it and Let the ... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO You want to make sure that, no matter where we are in the schedule, you're not hurting yourself by c... JODY GERUT Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS What we're looking at, if the funds were lost, is a huge loss in these programs and also a loss in c... LENA DIBBLE To add the cost of (a new water) project to the cost of buying out the company would not save ratepa... CATHERINE BOWIE Art brings a message into a room. It should make us perceive in a new way - either through color, fo... GLORIA VANDERBILT We're in a position where we either spend well over $100,000 to conduct our own election or we join ... LEON CUBILLAS Either way, the whole thing was a pain in the porpoise. ALAN BRADLEY It is not possible to think of a way of screening out effectively the most appropriate embryos, and ... IAN WILMUT Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON Once you master the art of self-love, you become so content with yourself that what other’s say or... AISHWARYA SHARMA Nothing you did could have changed anything. And that being angry and blaming yourself for not... TESSA SHAFFER Whenever you jump off a cliff at GOD's command, be sure that you will fly! Either by soaring on the ... TEMITOPE IBRAHIM if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it... CHARLES BUKOWSKI We used to think of cost-shifting as something you could do only every so often. But we're seeing a ... BLAINE BOS We used to think of cost-shifting as something you could do only every so often. But we're seeing a ... BLAINE BOS Sometimes the only way you can feel good about yourself is by making someone else look bad. And I'm ... DAN CASTELLANETA I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick w... CHRIS HILL All that the spider needs to complete its web is step taking ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you look at yourself as a star, you've already lost something in the portrayal of any human being GENE HACKMAN It was playing dangerous. I could still feel it even though I was playing really well and wasn't in ... SERGIO GARCIA I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot... JACK HANDY Look, the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're l... SARAH DESSEN ...that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't... C. S. LEWIS Employers need to measure the cost of any given health plan two different ways: premiums and product... HELEN DARLING I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in ... ED MARKEY
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