Laila Lalami quote: "Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I now know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it."

I understand about not saying 'bomb' so as not to create pandemonium. But they should have evacuated...
HEATHER WHITE

Lena's real mom, Emily, knew that this was not the truth, but she also knew that Vaclav was not lyin...
HALEY TANNER

Before I got on full-time medication, I believed that my mental disorder was the reason I could crea...
MARY LAMBERT

It was so exciting. I have never had that many people come to watch me. It gave me a lot to feed off...
KRISTINA BASKETT

No doubt. We know what it takes to beat a team like that. You've got to play them tough, battle them...
JASON DOURISSEAU

I'm not saying she was lying to me, but she just acted so different before I got to know her, and if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY

After many, many years, I fell out of love with politics. It's not something I like but it's...
BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI

Are you?" I said. "Gay, I mean?"

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I hoped he wasn't offended by my asking, b...
BRENT HARTINGER

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor i...
ABDULRAZAK GURNAH

We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

I am a ridiculous person. Now they call me a madman. That would be a promotion if it were not that I...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY

I remember being in New Orleans after Katrina hearing people calling, 'Help me,' and wanting...
DAVID MUIR

The feeling that passed between them, so powerful there was no language to describe it... It was not...
SARAH J. MAAS

When I won the first Grammy, there was no other feeling like that feeling. It just made me feel like...
RIHANNA

There were so many beliefs which we had about the world, which then influenced everything, everythin...
T. SCOTT MCLEOD

It’s like being offered lemonade after having something really sweet. The lemonade was wonderful b...
KELLYN ROTH

Hurt like it was my family, know what I'm saying? I've had them so long they is like family to me, s...
CURTIS BOLDEN

I spent so many years just saying what I felt without thinking about the ramifications, without unde...
KATHERINE HEIGL

It changes a lot and it gives us a lot to play for. The playoffs are possible. These guys really nee...
GREG DIXON

But it just makes me tired even thinking about it. It reminds me of that feeling I had before I left...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER

One time, a burglar came to my apartment, so we called the police. My son was here, so I think they ...
CARINE ROITFELD

It's nothing like it was before, it wasn't that kind of injury, but they just don't know. We're goin...
PETE CARROLL

Damage report, sir?” Skotchdopole asked, climbing off his console into his seat.
“To hell w...
CHRISTINA ENGELA

It was a real body; there can be no doubt about that. Hundreds of people could not have been so mist...
DAVID WINTER

Shall I tell you a story? A new and terrible one? A ghost story? Are you ready? Shall I begin? Once ...
LIBBA BRAY

I'm not going to lie, I was nervous, ... I knew he was open, and I just choked. That's all there is ...
STEFAN LEFORS

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew t...
MARGARET MCMULLAN

You have only to see what became of my father's will immediately after his death, and the wills ...
LOUIS XIV

I found the way by the sound of your voice. So many things to say but these are only words. Now I've...
DAVID SYLVIAN

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the com...
STEPHEN HAWKING

What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL

When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comf...
POPE JOHN XXIII

It was kind of like a dream while it was happening. I just could not believe it was all real. It's s...
BUTCH WEST

I had no interests. I had no interests in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At leas...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

Well, it was just, the bars was all just like the bamboo roofs and everything. You know. As I say, t...
DAVID WALKER

It is a hard thing to want to come back and play after something like that. Everyone was just really...
LORI MILLER

In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p...
SANDRA OH

It?s going to be like that all season and we need to get used to it. Something that was natural to d...
SIMON GAGNE

I'm glad that I was able to give them something, ... They gave my family so much.
DARLENE ROSE

After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the tr...
UMBERTO ECO

As an Olympian, I know I have to prove something extra, ... In the Olympics, I was having fun. Befor...
DEVIN VARGAS

So many times it seemed like there were chances to stop things before they started. Or even stop the...
SARAH DESSEN

I don't know this to be true, but our quickness was just as quick as them, if not quicker, at certai...
KEITH RICHARD

It was our ability to pressure their guards so they couldn't quite run their offense. Now that was o...
FRANK SORIA

I'm surprised even now that I was aware of things like that at that age. I don't know why. But I dec...
STEVE MARTIN

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J. D. SALINGER

If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you'll probably want to know is where I was bor...
J.D. SALINGER

So one time I said to her that she should stop reading it, because it was just depressing, so she wa...
M.T. ANDERSON

I don't know what visual sign I gave Bob necessarily or anybody in regard to that, ... That was one ...
MIKE SHERMAN

I was like 'Why am I saying not guilty?' ... I thought I had to or something. It was the wrong decis...
MICHAEL WOLFE

I don't think there's any doubt that we're going in, ... And I don't think there's any doubt over th...
RAYMOND JAMES

I don't think there's any doubt that we're going in. And I don't think there's any doubt over the ev...
JEFF SAUT

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J.M. BARRIE

I made the decision that I was going to make rap music in, like, fourth grade, so it's been some...
CHANCE THE RAPPER

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ADRIAN BELTRE

But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized ...
SARAH DESSEN

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
LIKE I

I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
LIKE I

On the interception, I was out of bounds,
LIKE I

casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
LIKE I

I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
LIKE I

I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
LIKE I

I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
LIKE I

I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
LIKE I

I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
LIKE I

You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
LIKE I

I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
LIKE I

Married to the Mob.
LIKE I

Hello you're with Drudge.
LIKE I

I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
LIKE I

throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
LIKE I

I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I

That was a dagger in the heart to them. It felt like they couldn't handle it (the game) after that.
HENRY HUDSON

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?
TERRY PRATCHETT

I didn't like acting 'cause I didn't know how, ... I was scared to death. I had never done it before...
GLEN CAMPBELL

You don't have any strategy after that. All you're trying to do is hang on. That penalty wasn't real...
DARRIS KILGOUR

When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from...
TODD PARK

I know there was a time, when our country was new, when the assignment of these numbers helped organ...
KIERA CASS

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JAY-Z

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JOAN DIDION

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EILEEN MCLANE

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What I was trying to convey there was the kind of waste land that was left after the war. It was a b...
GEORGE MARTIN

After meeting so many people around town that loved that station, the music and what it offered, I f...
TERRY FOX

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JAMES C. DOBSON

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LEIGH BARDUGO

It was a big loss to me because, for one, I was trying to do something nobody had ever done before. ...
XAVIER CARTER

Suddenly, I was just sure he was going to kiss me. He was there, I could feel his breath, the ground...
SARAH DESSEN

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ALFONSO SORIANO

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no dou...
JOHN GALSWORTHY

So the music is saying something to them. It is sending a message. I do not think the human beans is...
ROALD DAHL

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CRAIG GROESCHEL

He gave me a lot of confidence. I remember after the sixth game, Whitey Ford beat us and I said to P...
JOHNNY PODRES

Before the Second World War, I believed in the perfectability of social man; that a correct structur...
WILLIAM GOLDING

I felt that there were so many people doing it that I would just be like one of the others.
KELLI WHITE

Dr. Talbon was struck by another very important thing. It all hung together. The stories Cheryl told...
CHERYL HERSHA

Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I now know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

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Just by saying something was so, they believed that it was. I now know that these conquerors, like many before them, and no doubt like others after, gave speeches not to voice the truth, but to create it.

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