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Related At four lines, with the quatrain, we reach the basic stanza form familiar from a whole range of Engl... JAMES FENTON For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mi... HILAIRE BELLOC Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha... CRAIG GROESCHEL 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 wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some sto... GILDA RADNER The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets... YUNA Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW I've always been jealous of rappers, because they can fit so many words into a song and tell a s... SKYLAR GREY 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. I don't ever want to fit my music into one genre, because every song needs to develop the way it wan... CHLOE DAY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS I always go in very emotionally when I'm doing music. Sad or happy, I'm always into it. I ha... ERIK HASSLE Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA I always wanted a happy ending... Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and s... GILDA RADNER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The scientific method gives us
information by testing and repeating observable things so that we
can... LEWIS N. ROE 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... 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Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Over the years, the Beatles themselves have incorporated so much fantasy into their own stories that... BOB SPITZ I'll make a song with Rick Rubin, a song with Beyonce, a song with Lenny Kravitz. I just believe... JAY-Z If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have... LEMONY SNICKET It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme. CEELO GREEN Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow. KATHERINE DIVOLIS I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I loved the first stanza, because to me this war is kind of senseless, and I don't know why we're th... BARBRA STREISAND I feel blessed. I have put a lot of hard work into basketball. When you work hard and believe, somet... PAUL BRYANT I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t. CAREW PAPRITZ At the Harvard meet, I beat the one-meter champion my freshman year. It's really hard to believe. JANIS SCANLON In 2004, I was on the West End stage in The Woman In White, and for every show I had to climb into a... MICHAEL CRAWFORD If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL I nibbled my lower lip. "If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard t... BECCA FITZPATRICK 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 The worst things in life come free to us ED SHEERAN You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL My mother, grandmother and older sister all cooked, so it was hard to get into the kitchen. So I hav... CHERYL LADD 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 If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM I love you so much, so incredibly much," he went on, "and I forget when you're close to me, I forget... CASSANDRA CLARE Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... 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DANIEL BRYAN When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly
to start by assuming that it is impossib... LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we
currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b... LEWIS N. ROE Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk... ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi... ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours... JON KRAKAUER I always give a print to everybody I photograph, and some of my subjects have told me they have a ha... CATHERINE OPIE It's a great feeling to come into states with a pin, because every kid is good. It means I'm working... JUSTIN ACCORDINO I wanted a perfect ending. Now Ive learned, the hard way, that some poems dont rhyme, and some s... GILDA RADNER The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of t... PHILLIPS BROOKS The earth has grown old with its burden of care but at Christmas it always is young, The heart of th... PHILLIP BROOKS As long as that song plays, I get to put my hands on you, and I can’t guarantee I’m going to be ... MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it. MEREDITH WILD As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON I think music can really affect people's emotions and, when I am about to get into a race car, I... ALLAN MCNISH I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to inf... GEORGE ELIOT I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to in... GEORGE ELIOT Struggling is hard because you never know what's at the end of the tunnel. DON RICKLES They always play us hard. We always seem to have a bit of trouble with them or have in the past. GRAHAM MCNABB I come into every camp with the expectation of playing every day. I always go hard. FERNANDO VINA To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y... GARY F EVANS... History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I wanted a perfect ending... Now, I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some ... GILDA RADNER I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some sto... GILDA RADNER 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
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