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Margot Lee Shetterly

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KELLY JONES The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.
JIM HARRISON We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you j...
STEVEN MOFFAT Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Rose: 'If you are an alien, how come you sound like you're from the north?'
Doctor: 'Lots of pl...
RUSSELL T. DAVIES It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Expertise in a subfield was the key to a successful career as an engineer, and expertise was becomin...
MARGOT LEE SHETTERLY I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE The present situation in other political parties is very bad. We should not allow the problems confr...
SONIA GANDHI The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul.
RENEE AHDIEH Eat for lunch, but let something for dinner.
ERBLIN VUKAJ Jesus Christ wants to show His love for this world through us, Christians.
SUNDAY ADELAJA If you are among the good fellows chances are that you will be among the blemishes for the wicked ar...
APURVA GAGLANI It's hard when you have things but lose them, it's even harder when you feel that you're being left ...
GARY F EVANS... Starting today, must forget what gone yesterday,appreciate what remains today & look forward what ca...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA call it chicken salad
SARAH DESSEN Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and s...
SARAH DESSEN Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL The Doctor: 'You know when grown-ups tell you everything's going to be fine, but you really think th...
STEVEN MOFFAT Amy Pond: 'I thought... well, I started to think you were just a madman with a box.'
The Doctor...
STEVEN MOFFAT From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.
JOHN WYCLIFFE Together my wife and I are building the kingdom of God, exercising dominion, beating back the weeds ...
R.C. SPROUL JR. Everything about Andrew was hot, from the hands holding him down to the mouth steadily taking Neil a...
NORA SAKAVIC The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding. For the merchandise of...
THE BIBLE When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul; Discretion shall pre...
THE BIBLE For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their...
THE BIBLE The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools. Wisdom is...
THE BIBLE So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding; Yea, if thou cri...
THE BIBLE Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
THE BIBLE Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.
THE BIBLE A wise man's heart is at his right hand; but a fool's heart at his left.
THE BIBLE There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged...
THE BIBLE And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him. And, behold, there arose a great te...
THE BIBLE Nevertheless let every one of you in particular so love his wife even as himself; and the wife see t...
THE BIBLE He who works his land will have abundant food.
THE BIBLE God helps those who persevere.
THE KORAN

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TANITH LEE When I am fascinated by something, I like to play with it.
TANITH LEE As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to rev...
TANITH LEE Genre categories are irrelevant. I dislike them, but I do not have the casting vote.
TANITH LEE I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.
TANITH LEE I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as ...
TANITH LEE If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say i...
TANITH LEE The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
TANITH LEE People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural b...
TANITH LEE It's very selfish when I write. I'm not aware, ever, of writing for another person; I'm ...
TANITH LEE Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them....
TANITH LEE I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. A...
TANITH LEE Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fictio...
TANITH LEE Pirates have always fascinated me.
TANITH LEE I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more d...
TANITH LEE There is too little courtship in the world.
VERNON LEE The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.
VERNON LEE Well, they're Southern people, and if they know you are working at home they think nothing of wa...
HARPER LEE