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STEPHEN RICHARDS Dr. King stood for nonviolence and not judging people by their skin and he was someone I looked up t...
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LORI R TAYLOR Never do today that which will become someone elses responsibility tomorrow.
DAVID BRENT Stephen King is a powerful guy, will powerful vocabulary.
DEYTH BANGER Finding someone crazy enough to let us invade their house was always difficult.
JEFF MUDGETT Now everybody's got a crazy notion of their own. Some like to mix up with a crowd, some like to ...
GEORGE FORMBY A Greater Person is Someone who PLAN their OWN LIFE, or Someone Else will PLAN to Make YOU ORDINARY.
RAJROCKER Goo can't be return from dead person, revive him and you will see an evil thing. WHich isn't really ...
DEYTH BANGER Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow it...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Laugh and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX The library knows its own mind... When it steals a boy, we let it keep him.
LAINI TAYLOR You almost have to step outside yourself and look at you as if you were someone else you really care...
QUEEN LATIFAH I wouldn't. Tuition goes up every year anyway. It's hard enough to keep up with now.
JOHN ALEXANDER Pressure is an emotional paralysis. It's hard enough to do the dishes when you're feeling pr...
JENNIFER LYNCH Laugh and the world laughs with you, be prompt and you dine alone. For the sad old earth must borrow...
GERALD BARZAN God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.
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STEPHEN KING I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
STEPHEN KING The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.
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JODI PICOULT Once a person has made up their mind, it's hard to change their mind.
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Weep, and you weep alone;
For this brave old earth must...
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Weep, and you weep alone;
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ELLA WHEELER WILCOX I'm not a dedicated writer in the sense of Stephen King.
CLIVE CUSSLER I’m sick. It’s true. It isn’t going to go away. All my life, I’ve thought that if I just wor...
MARYA HORNBACHER Each character created by Stephen King is a proffesor... a guy full of knowledge.
DEYTH BANGER It is better to remove the beam from your eye, before you remove the splinter from someone elses.
DUTCH PROVERB Never give up on someone. Sometimes the answers you are looking for are the same answers another per...
SHANNON L. ALDER Schuyler pulled Oliver close and hugged him tightly. "Thank you," she whispered. Thank you for lovin...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ I grew up reading Stephen King, Peter Straub, Clive Barker, Robert McCammon, Isaac Asimov's nonf...
NNEDI OKORAFOR It would require Stephen Harper or someone very close to Stephen Harper to make a monumental blunder...
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Stephen King interviews and speeches are incrediable very powerful.
DEYTH BANGER I am not a big fan of [on demand] just because of this. It's hard enough to keep our own systems up,...
MARK SILER why would you want a man that isn't completely yours? I don't even like sharing my dessert, let alon...
JOY MANISCALCO The big guys, they won't touch that with somebody's else 10-foot pole, let alone their own.
HANS OLSEN The front of a cheque alone gives someone enough information to steal your identity.
FRANK ABAGNALE Cal/OSHA does not have enough field inspectors to meet its day-to-day responsibilities, let alone ef...
MATT AUSTIN The reality of life is that we are all living someone else's dream. Now that's everyone's fantasy.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Stretch your self to accommodate someone elses demand & providence will also stretch itself to accom...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Stephen shoots just enough coverage.
ANNE COATES People seem to follow a pattern. They go on, they check their own house, then houses where they've l...
AMY BOHUTINSKY if you set your goals ridiculously high and its a failure, you will fail above everyone elses succes...
JAMES FRANCIS CAMERON When I pulled up, I saw a construction crew on the guardrail pointing to a truck just beyond the Kin...
GEORGE ANDREWS I had a hard enough time in high school, fitting in without having to keep up with Instagram, Twitte...
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EUGENIA PRICE By doing what they must do to keep their margins strong and their stock price healthy, every company...
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ALLAN ADLER A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON When you get close enough to someone you're never really alone again.
STEPHEN BAXTER You know it's never fifty-fifty in a marriage. It's always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty. Someone f...
JODI PICOULT Sometimes people do not recognise their own hard work, never assume and never let hard work go unnot...
KISHAN S CHAUHAN Stand up to injustice, even if you stand alone
SUZY KASSEM I think they're going to keep their chins up and keep trying. It's really hard for them right now, b...
CARMEL SEAL If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be alt...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW One can never have enough socks
J.K. ROWLING One can never have enough socks.
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COLLEEN HOOVER Let me alone, and go in search of someone else..
ALI TALIB Let me alone, and go in search of someone else.
ALI IBN ABI TALIB Let me alone, and go in search of someone else..
ALI IBN ABI TALIB They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how.
DAN GROAT People end up drinking their own septic, ... Our patience is worn out. Enough is enough.
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ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH its so hard to keep a straight face and put up a smile , when you know your going through so much.
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January embers
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He stared at me, baffle...
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STEPHEN KING For God’s sake, Larry, grow up. Develop a little self-righteousness. A lot of that is an ugly thin...
STEPHEN KING He was a poet who sometimes taught Free University classes or travelled in the western states of Uta...
STEPHEN KING She's the Queen Bitch of Castle Hell. If you mess with her, she'll eat you alive.
STEPHEN KING When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invaria...
STEPHEN KING Get busy living or get busy dying.
STEPHEN KING Good books are for consideration after, too.
STEPHEN KING And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?
STEPHEN KING Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day
STEPHEN KING I know your mother lives in your head - almost everyone's mother does, I guess - but you can't let h...
STEPHEN KING