Indeed, it's not feasible to do the sort of thorough fact-checking that some books may require, in terms of both money and time. We do go back to authors over and over again, getting them to confirm facts and questioning the veracity of their stories, but sometimes it's just not possible.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When we look it is always forward ,but if we did not think of the past at all we would not be able t... GARY F EVANS... Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN It's easy to never make a mistake, when you are hiding yourself away from the possibility of making ... C. JOYBELL C. Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w... ANTHONY LICCIONE How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Each day I will accomplish one thing on my to do list. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We might not be able to know what reality is about, but we can’t but be aware of the explicitness ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE It's tough. You're sort of in shock. I just can't get over the fact, whether it's my grandmother or ... RALPH LEWIS Indeed it is the protean ability of Western civilization to be self-critical and self-correcting - n... PAUL JOHNSON There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the... FREDERICK BARTHELME Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l... SUSANE COLASANTI History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent... JAMES MADISON I had a chat with May and I had a sweet talk with April but the lovely conversation that left me to ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Clearly, unless the Lord chooses to explain Himself to us, which He does not often do, His motivatio... JAMES C. DOBSON The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ... LISA J. SHULTZ Sometimes that's easier to do. They get excited about it - it's a novelty. The ones you swim over an... JUDD ANDERSON We do not spend a lot of time together in the evenings. Sometimes we divide and conquer. We do try t... AMANDA SMITH Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _... GEORGE MACDONALD Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life. JAMES C. DOBSON We have to have the money to do the work we want to do, as well as to keep a roof over our heads and... ELIZABETH ASTON It's tough. We're just going to have to start over again and take it one step at a time. Go up there... BRANDON DUBINSKY It's no mystery to doctors that the over-the-counter preparations may not do much for the cough but ... DR. PETER DICPINIGAITIS here we were again , always saying good-bye MAGGIE STIEFVATER We had to go back and start all over. And, as a coach I'm not afraid to do that because I've done it... KATHY GIBSON Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its ... JOHN FRUSCIANTE The Bahraini people are eager to obtain facts to enable them to shape a comprehensive national opini... HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA Witness protection just makes for exciting stories and it's a really rich sort of place to grab ... MARY MCCORMACK We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's house. A gro... DAVID HYDE PIERCE Sometimes they would just pay me to stay home and not do anything else, which sounds fantastic but d... CRAIG FERGUSON Many are arrogant because of the knowledge they possess, but they have no knowledge of how arrogant ... MADDY MALHOTRA Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... JOSEPH CONRAD I've learned over and over that life happens on its own terms, not mine. KATE WALSH Yet thousands of slaves throughout the southern states are thus handed over by the masters who own t... FANNY KEMBLE I think that films or indeed any art work should be made in a way that they are infinitely viewable;... PETER GREENAWAY What we have now is a situation where politicians get a whole bunch of money from mainly business in... MATT TAIBBI The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS You were many wonderful things to many people before you met him--don't let this one event define wh... MARY ESSELMAN Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person. JEFFREY FRY Often, we only dream of something but do not fulfill our purpose and that is because we do not know ... SUNDAY ADELAJA I do not see any earnings visibility in Amazon and in fact, I noticed how they are getting rid of so... JON BURNHAM We both know... that soon everything is going to end... ... This chat will be in the... DEYTH BANGER It is kind of tedious after a while, to parse politicians doing the same thing over and over again. ... FRANK RICH Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n... J. SWARTZ Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has n... WILLIAM STYRON In my study, there are stacks of papers to grade, books I should have read & reviewed months ago... JESS ROW Of the events of life we may have some control. but over the law of its progress none. JOHN W. DRAPER That sort of thing sometimes happens on high-profile listings, its what we call bogus bidding peo... HANI DURZY Name the fears that are holding you back. It's the equivalent of flooding the boogeyman with light. GINA GREENLEE Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po... LISA KLEYPAS Anything man can make, man can destroy. JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT And thus have We made in every town the great ones to be its guilty ones, that they may plan therein... QURAN Such a chimerical idea as telegraphing vocal sounds would indeed, to most minds, seem scarcely feasi... ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL He should have just let them pull him over and do their investigation and we would not have any of t... LEE BACA One of the financial personality types, whom I call the Money Masters, said that if they lost all th... KATHLEEN GURNEY Like life, what gives a story its meaning is the fact that it ends. Our stories have lives of their ... FRANCESCA ZAPPIA While history offers us many stories worth telling, some belong to other people, who paid for them w... CARLIN ROMANO Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a s... G. K. CHESTERTON To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... [Cats] are blissfully unaware that they have only a finite time in which to finish their ‘to do’... JON EDGELL I think sometimes there is no right thing. ROSAMUND HODGE We were getting opportunities and we didn't want to take them. We know if we do that again, everythi... CLIFF HAMMONDS If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... We could do the highways now, and it would be a boon to the city. It wouldn't take a rocket scientis... WALTER HAYDEN Thomas felt his spirits lift, but immediately squashed them back down. Getting his hopes up was some... JAMES DASHNER When we continue to pick at the wound and show the pictures over and over again it just creates the ... JOHN ABIZAID I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my ... ROALD DAHL Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... LISA KLEYPAS Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. LIONEL TRILLING I have stories. But stories are not facts.' 'I like stories. Love them, actually. Most of the t... MORGAN RHODES I have pledged to try to finish this inquiry by the end of the year, ... However, if we continue to ... HENRY HYDE They're not huge amounts of money, but it just shows that (students are) getting local support from ... BERNADETTE MILLS People have reacted to the idea that the Fed may not do anymore after the next move -- its possible ... ADRIAN SCHMIDT I m a strong believer of fate. And I believe its not over. Anything is possible. JUSTIN LEONARD Our conference is focused on helping authors be more successful in selling their books. Although Inf... TOM GREGORY Like a valet who commits grand theft auto not to go for a joy ride but to open a used car lot, so do... BAUVARD The GPS unit became almost equally obstreperous, though, over Richard’s unauthorized route change,... NEAL STEPHENSON Sometimes a soldier returns home and all he can do is share his story in the hopes that somehow, in ... MICHAEL ANTHONY Rise up & attack the day with Passion. The struggle you're in today is developing the strength y... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO Normally I would not recommend a book that tells you how to make money in the stock market. Most of ... GAVYN DAVIES Films exhaust me, they do, and I often want nothing more to do with them, but I'm continually su... DANIEL DAY-LEWIS There are different paths to your destination. Choose your own path. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA [The court postponement means that the completion of the roadwork is postponed until next spring, as... CHRIS BALDWIN I think you have to send a message out to those outside the state, ... that Louisiana is in fact tak... ROBERT ADLEY Creating fake facts does require a measure of haphazard research, insofar as they need to not just b... JOHN HODGMAN It is not always possible to do away with negative thinking, but with persistence and practice, one ... STEPHEN RICHARDS We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience... IHAB HASSAN We'd probably both do it over again. We've been in this business a long time and that's part of bein... DOUG BENTLEY I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA Its devastating to think of them going through---what they are going through as far as just getting ... CINDI WILLIAMS The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I love research. Sometimes I think writing novels is just an excuse to allow myself this leisurely t... SARAH WATERS Care is not just acting infront of 1,but its how much u think of the 1 in their absence & do things ... DEEPIKA KK We all went to Kelsey's wedding, and yeah, we go to parties. We also go to each other's hous... DAVID HYDE PIERCE There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How... WILLIAM GODWIN
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ELISABETH ELLIOT If ever I was running, it was towards you. JENNIFER ELISABETH Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m... JENNIFER ELISABETH I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and nee... JENNIFER ELISABETH She blushed and smiled nonstop for 20 minutes. ELISABETH AGRO It was a matter of finding the right chair. Will it have its own presence? Will it stand on its own?... ELISABETH AGRO This chair was their first venture into furniture making. It blasted off. It became the hottest thin... ELISABETH AGRO I saw the chair in design magazines. It was also in Child Magazine. The designers really thought abo... ELISABETH AGRO There are moms who choose not to work outside the home, but they aren't polishing silver; they're pl... ELISABETH AGRO I'm interested not only in that it's beautiful and that it's Gorham, but also what it tells us about... 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ELISABETH ELLIOT I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be (among other things) both sensual and materna... ELISABETH ELLIOT This job has been given to me to do. Therefore, it is a gift. Therefore, it is a privilege. Therefor... ELISABETH ELLIOT Our vision is so limited we can hardly imagine a love that does not show itself in protection from s... ELISABETH ELLIOT Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. ELISABETH ELLIOT God is God. Because he is God, He is worthy of my trust and obedience. I will find rest nowhere but ... ELISABETH ELLIOT God never witholds from His child that which His love and wisdom call good. God's refusals are alway... ELISABETH ELLIOT By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere. ELISABETH ELLIOT 'We didn't have enough money, or horses of our own I would take an old saddle and put it on a swing ... ELISABETH SHUE Jim devoted ten days largely to prayer to make sure that this was indeed what God intended for him. ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections. ELISABETH ELLIOT Freedom begins way back. It begins not with doing what you want but with doing what you ought - that... ELISABETH ELLIOT ...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spiri... ELISABETH ELLIOT The failure to cultivate the power of peaceful concentration is the greatest single cause of mental ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Until the will and the affections are brought under the authority of Christ, we have not begun to un... ELISABETH ELLIOT When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us alw... ELISABETH ELLIOT George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', ... ELISABETH ELLIOT Think of the self that God has given as an acorn. It is a marvelous little thing, a perfect shape, p... ELISABETH ELLIOT I am convinced that the human heart hungers for constancy. In forfeiting the sanctity of sex by casu... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really t... ELISABETH ELLIOT The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled... ELISABETH ELLIOT The principles of gain through loss, of joy through sorrow, of getting by giving, of fulfillment by ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The world looks for happiness through self-assertion. The Christian knows that joy is found in self-... ELISABETH ELLIOT When life's flight is over, and we unload our cargo at the other end, the fellow who got rid of unne... ELISABETH ELLIOT He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose." Jim Elliot, missiona... 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ELISABETH ELLIOT But the question to precede all others, which finally determines the course of our lives is What do ... ELISABETH ELLIOT God is God. I dethrone Him in my heart if I demand that He act in ways that satisfy my idea of justi... ELISABETH ELLIOT Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find ... ELISABETH ELLIOT The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less,... ELISABETH ELLIOT If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril i... ELISABETH ELLIOT One reason we are so harried and hurried is that we make yesterday and tomorrow our business, when a... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is nothing worth living for, unless it is worth dying for. ELISABETH ELLIOT Leave it all in the Hands that were wounded for you ELISABETH ELLIOT The devil has made it his business to monopolize on three elements: noise, hurry, crowds. He will no... 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I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… JENNIFER ELISABETH I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the... JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this lis... JENNIFER ELISABETH I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. ... JENNIFER ELISABETH I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of ... JENNIFER ELISABETH Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely und... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other peop... JENNIFER ELISABETH Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experien... JENNIFER ELISABETH I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of... JENNIFER ELISABETH I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton ... JENNIFER ELISABETH You haunt my days and dreams. JENNIFER ELISABETH If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep. JENNIFER ELISABETH I tried to push my body through his and completely disappear. JENNIFER ELISABETH The Fall will always be yours and mine… JENNIFER ELISABETH Your personal truth is your gift to the world. JENNIFER ELISABETH I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinnin... JENNIFER ELISABETH Don't allow yourself to feel guilty about wanting deep and endless love, amazing sex and opportuniti... JENNIFER ELISABETH We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes alm... JENNIFER ELISABETH Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenti... JENNIFER ELISABETH I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels... JENNIFER ELISABETH It feels like the world is folding up around me, like origami paper, and I’m trapped inside of its... JENNIFER ELISABETH I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my ... JENNIFER ELISABETH He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning. JENNIFER ELISABETH Each time that I have felt like I might finally be figuring some things out, life has decided to cha... JENNIFER ELISABETH I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, ca... JENNIFER ELISABETH In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I ... JENNIFER ELISABETH How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and w... JENNIFER ELISABETH Robert Kennedy was such an inspiring figure. His interest in politics seemed to come not from a desi... ELISABETH SHUE I see myself at a certain age as not being able to play the kind of parts that would keep me stimula... ELISABETH SHUE Anachronism is not the inconsequential juxtaposition of epochs, but rather their inter-penetration, ... ELISABETH LENK To pursue the thing she needed to do, Virginia Woolf wrote, “a woman must have money and a room of... ELISABETH EAVES Worry is the antithesis of trust. You simply cannot do both. They are mutually exclusive. ELISABETH ELLIOT The ways of the world exalt themselves against God. They sometimes look rational and appealing to th... ELISABETH ELLIOT The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society... ELISABETH ELLIOT If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pr... ELISABETH ELLIOT It is altogether fitting and proper that we should enjoy things made for us to enjoy. What is not at... ELISABETH ELLIOT Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who ar... ELISABETH ELLIOT If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and cannot manage our affairs as well as ... ELISABETH ELLIOT There is no such thing as Christian work. That is, there is no work in the world which is, in and of... ELISABETH ELLIOT A Christian sees all men as made in the image of God. All are sinners too, which means that the imag... ELISABETH ELLIOT He who had known the ceaseless worship of angels came to be a slave to men. Preaching, teaching, hea... ELISABETH ELLIOT Christianity teaches righteousness, not rights. It emphasizes honor, not equality. A Christian's con... ELISABETH ELLIOT God will never disappoint us. He loves us and has only one purpose for us : holiness, which in His k... ELISABETH ELLIOT Discipline is the wholehearted yes to the call of God. When I know myself called, summoned, addresse... ELISABETH ELLIOT The disciplined Christian will be very careful what sort of counsel he seeks from others. Counsel th... ELISABETH ELLIOT A young woman asked the great preacher Charles Spurgeon if it was possible to reconcile God’s sove... ELISABETH ELLIOT God will never disappoint us… If deep in our hearts we suspect that God does not love us and canno... ELISABETH ELLIOT