It's like we have a two-lane highway when we should have four.


Rick Harnish

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We have a right to life, not on it.
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Georgia DOT has a project now to upgrade that two lane section to a four lane divided highway.
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I saw a lot of two-lane roads become four-lane roads. Back when I first started all the development ...
DON ALLEN
It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN
It's a four-lane highway off (Interstate) 95, with all utilities.
LYNN YOUNG
Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER
We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR
Whether you are a consumer or an I.T. pro, the move to EVDO Rev A will basically be like switching f...
ALI TABASSI
The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS
Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO
Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN
When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
In secret we met - In silence I grieve, That thy heart could forget, Thy spirit deceive. If I should...
GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON "WHEN WE TWO PARTED"
We have great senior leadership. We only have four, but they are four of our best players, they're l...
TIFFANI AIRMET
If there had been a guardrail, one of us would have been killed, ... It's a short stretch with four ...
CHARLES HALL
I think we had a better percentage from the arc than we did inside the lane. We felt like we were go...
KEN BUBLITZ
They should have got one run and ended up with five. And we had a chance to get more in the first. W...
BRAD HILL
If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ...
MITCH ALBOM
You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore...
STEVEN MAGEE
A lot of times I think we should have got into the lane. That's where we had most of our success ear...
LUKE ZUMO
When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES
And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG
Voter apathy is a civic abdication.
CHARLES M. BLOW
We have four still going, two on the front side and two on the back. We can't stop there. We have a ...
BILL PLEIN
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN
Life, its so great, but when we act like shit and do shit, then it aint. Why should we act like that...
TUPAC SHAKUR
We should have four lines we can throw out on the ice on a consistent basis,
BILL WILKINSON
Our goal is to create jobs within the port district, and we believe this will help us do that in tha...
DAN SILVERTHORN
Rebounding helped a lot - me being able to get the rebound and just push it and have Todd (Galloway)...
ISAIAH SWANN
There should be a televised debate between the two of us. What do you say, Rick?
E. HELM
We're still making a lot of mental mistakes. That's two weeks in a row when we should have had a shu...
JUDD BOSWELL
When speculation has done its worst, two and two still make four.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
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.
Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?
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Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if w...
BRENE BROWN
I felt all along going into training camp we have four great backs. Two of them are down right now, ...
JEFF HARTINGS
We occasionally miss one or two during a performance, but we pretty much have it down. We practice t...
GREG MUELLER
We should have a dozen calves from those top two cows.
DON ZILVERBERG
We could have scored more - we should have. We should have taken a lot more of our chances and won b...
WAYNE ROONEY
Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
During the long stretches of quiet two-lane highway, with the sun
setting in the distance, it w...
SARAH DESSEN
We've got to get made because we didn't play like we wanted to play. The past four weeks, we've gone...
KYLE BROWN
We have issues in the Madison Heights area. Some drivers don't understand that because there is no m...
ED HOPKINS
We showed a lot of character, but it's very disappointing to come all the way back like that and sti...
AARON FOSTER
It's hard with tournaments when you're playing four games a week and you don't know where everybody'...
JEFF TAGEANT
I'm just like everybody else. I have two arms, two legs and four-thousand hits.
PETE ROSE
They're not very good ball handlers and they don't have very strong two-meter players, so we are goi...
ALAINA WHITAKER
McCarty has thrown well for us all year when we have needed him to. Any time we can score four runs ...
JEFF EDDLEMAN
Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless.
and
Just because you don't...
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
We have two ears and one mouth and we should use them proportionally.
SUSAN CAIN
We have two ears and one mouth, so we should listen more than we say.
ZENO OF CITIUM
We had three or four kids that have played in two state tournaments now. That should hopefully help ...
DOUG SCHAUER
Overall, we should have wrestled better. The only good thing was we had four guys win their last mat...
BILL PERRY
Strength is not something you have, it's something you find.
EMMA SMITH
Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh...
CHLOE THURLOW
To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ...
GARY F EVANS...
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb.
"Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ...
MITCH ALBOM
Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som...
MITCH ALBOM
If you stopped yourself every time you said "I have to", and changed it to "I get to" it might chang...
KYLE PAGERLY
Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have.
LORRIN L. LEE
You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE.
LORRIN L. LEE
We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it.
LORRIN L. LEE
Now they have a riddle.

- Criminal Minds
DEYTH BANGER
Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental ...
EMMA PAUL
Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her...
EMMA PAUL
Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ...
LORI HANDELAND
We should do pretty well - we have a few skaters who are very good in all four distances. We have a ...
NEAL MARSHALL
It should have been like yesterday's game. We should have knocked them out.
HEDO TURKOGLU
I think that we have two to four girls that can help her with the scoring.
BRENT WALSTON
We have been building it for four years. We've been using it for at least two.
BARB FOX
It's hard to believe. When you hear a name like Rick or Janet Gretzky, I mean, you have to wonder, h...
WADE BELAK
The call to evacuate will be two days in advance, and at two days, we have a one in four chance of a...
BILL READ
You're talking about a piece of machinery that's as wide as an eight-lane highway, that's taller tha...
DENNIS WATSON
We have four returning starters. That's a pretty good thing to start out with. If they stay hungry, ...
ART FONICELLO
We should have won. We missed a penalty kick and they scored in the last four minutes. I thought our...
GAVIN STEVENS
We're two different players and we can bring two different things to the table. If we put that toget...
UDONIS HASLEM
It's the accessibility we have to urban areas. Our highway system is unparalleled.
ROBERT UGUCCIONI
When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
PROVERB
When we don't have what we like, we must like what we have.
FRENCH PROVERB
We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.
BILL MCCARTNEY
We have two issues we care about deeply, property rights and self-protection rights. It's kind of li...
REP. DENNIS BAXLEY
Rick had two red trucks.
DOUG PETERSON
Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS
Having riches ultimately means having few needs.
J.R. RIM
PJ's suggested chant, for pointless protest marches:

"Five, four, three, two.
We don...
P.J. O'ROURKE
We didn't push the ball inside like we could have. We might have come out a little intimidated, and ...
ERIN DOHERTY
We're two and a half inches behind. For February, we should have had 3.3 inches.
BOB RENARD
We only have two seniors and four juniors. We've got some young guys who really have a chance to pla...
JEFF TODD
I'm hoping we don't have to have another conversation like this for four or five years.
COMMISSIONER NANCY ROBINSON
We like to push the ball, get it in the lane and kick it back out. When we do that, we know we have ...
CRAIG HAASE
What we have here is another attempt to deflect attention from the opportunity we have to improve ou...
JANE JANKOWSKI
It is not what we have that matters; what matters is what we give away with love.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
We shop here every day. Now we have to cross (Highway) 85 to shop. I hate doing that.
DANIEL MARTINEZ
We don't have a No. 1 line. We have four pretty good lines.
DAVE BOITZ
Bear in mind, [Route 44] is a state highway, ... And people have to remember that we have to coopera...
DONALD BRIGGS
I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL
I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER
To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS...
In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS...

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Yours in demigodishness, and all that. Peace out!
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Just his luck he was related to this grubby old dude. He hoped all sons of Neptune didn't share the ...
RICK RIORDAN
Look," Percy continued, "I know I'm new here. I know you guys don't like to mention the massacre in ...
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Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a ...
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Juno: "All roads lead there child. You should know that."
Percy: "Detention?
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They all ordered massive plates of eggs, pancakes, and reindeer sausage, though Frank looked a littl...
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Percy tried to remember. He really did. For some reason, Annabeth and he had visited a spa and decid...
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That's because we keep weapons in the attic, silly boy. Do you think this is the first time m...
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Tyson, Frank is a descendant of Poseidon."
"Brother!" Tyson crushed Frank in a hug.
Percy ...
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Elections only happen in two ways," Reyna said. "Either the legion raises someone on a shield after ...
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You speak horse?" Hazel asked.
"Speaking to horses is a Poseidon thing," Percy said. "Uh, I mea...
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Frank stared at him. "Unfair? You can breathe underwater and blow up glaciers and summon freaking hu...
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They're Lares. House gods."
"House gods," Percy said. "Like...smaller than real gods, but large...
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I'm fine!" Percy yelled out as he ran by, followed by a giant screaming bloody murder.
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This is Leo. I'm the... What's my title? Am I like, admiral, or captain, or..."
"Repair boy." RICK RIORDAN
Reyna sent me to get Percy," Frank said. "Did Octavian accept you?"
"Yeah," Percy said. "He sla...
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Percy scowled. "I-I know you."
Nico raised his eyebrows. "Do you?
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Annabeth's face, her blond hair and gray eyes, the way she laughed, threw her arms around him, and g...
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Two hundred Romans, and no one’s got a pen? Never mind!"

He slung his M16 onto his bac...
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There!" Mars finished writing and threw the scroll at Octavian. "A prophecy. You can add it to your ...
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Jeez, Hazel," Percy said, "tell your horse to watch his language."
Hazel tried not to laugh. "W...
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Hey!" said the guy in the video. "Greetings from your friends at Camp Half-Blood, et cetera. This is...
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Life is only precious because it ends, kid.
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Now, come over here so I can pat you down."
"But you don't have-" Percy stopped. "Uh, sure." RICK RIORDAN
Can you surf really well, then?"
I looked at Grover, who was trying hard not to laugh.
"Je...
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Hera, do not dare take credit! You have caused at least as many problems as you fixed!
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He wondered if...his dad, Zeus, would write him a note: “Please excuse Jason from eternal damnatio...
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Usually I give demigods something simple like a shopping trip, singing a funny song, that sort of th...
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Nico danced around like he needed to use the restroom. "Does Zeus really have lightning
bolts t...
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If you look at it from any other side, it looks like a pile of enormous deer droppings, but Chiron w...
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Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."

Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be...
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The god of wine looked around at the assembled crowd. “Miss me?”

The satyrs fell over...
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My faithful companion, Zoe Nightshade, has passed into the stars. I must have a new lieutenant. And ...
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Wait just a minute," Ares growled. He pointed at Thalia and me. "These two are dangerous. It'd be mu...
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But I've never even been to Olympus! Zeus is crazy!"

Chiron and Grover glanced nervously ...
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Kronos couldn't have risen if it hadn't been for a lot of demigods who felt abandoned by their paren...
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Your uncle," Poseidon sighed, "has always had a flair for dramatic exits. I think he would've done w...
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I looked at Thalia. "You're afraid of heights."

Now that we were safely down the mountain...
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Doesn't miss many meals, does he?" Zeus muttered. "Tyson, for your bravery in the war, and for leadi...
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The Council agrees," Zeus said. "Percy Jackson, you will have one gift from the gods."
I hesita...
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As for my brothers," Zeus said, "we are thankful"-he cleared his throat like the words were hard to ...
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It's just Annabeth mom jeez!
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Хей! - извика Гроувър. - Тя май припадна!
- Гррр! - обади...
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Той ме погледна тъжно, сякаш мислеше какви цветя да изб...
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Синдром на Дефицит на Вниманието (СДВ)
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You're cute when you're worried, your eyebrows get all scrunched together.
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then things got even stranger.
Mr. Brunner, who'd been out in front of the museum a minute befo...
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There are parties and then there are huge major blowout parties. And then there are Olympian parties...
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Apollo?” I guessed…
He put a finger to his lips. “I’m incognito. Call me Fred.”
...
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Percy smiled. He knew the stakes were high. He knew this day could go horribly wrong. But he also kn...
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Hazel squinted. "How far?"
"Just over the river and through the woods."
Percy raised an ey...
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