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Henry Giles
Related It is a lie. ARTHUR MILLER She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done... ERIC LIDDELL You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Only fools wait, and only tools bait. CRE There are approximately two trillion cells in the human body. You are never alone, there are always ... DWIGHT W. HAYES You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Be grateful for every moment and every breath. TERESA COLLINS I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS 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 You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS 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... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play. J.R. RIM I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me�... SETH ADAM SMITH I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG A person of value have skill, a vision & a deep desire to achieve what they dream for. Happiness com... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A man of guilt acknowledges and changes himself immediately on being hinted slightly about his fault... ANUJ SOMANY The school year progressed slowly. I felt as if I had been in the sixth grade for years, yet it was ... LUCY GREALY The value of a consultant;An outsider can see what an insider cannot see or has decided to ignore. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A family is like a card game, on one hand, you can get a really bad hand and on the other, your hand... GARY F EVANS... The worth of a person’s quote is in his or her heart where it takes the birth and the value of the... ANUJ SOMANY Walking the rugged trail of the unknown destiny can be filled with walls crashing and cracks on the ... GARY F EVANS... It makes you wonder why the human race can be so selfish and self-centered sometimes, when on cold w... GARY F EVANS... To have a pet in the family is to invite good health into your lives.It brings happiness to all and ... GARY F EVANS... I can see you have a great deal of water in your personality. Water never waits. It changes shape an... ARTHUR GOLDEN كنت أصمت أذعن لمصيري. أحمل دميتي,أنزع ملابسها, أشد شعره�... مليكة مستظرف The norm which the society at large has set today categorically is in the form of preventive measure... HENRIETTA NEWTON MARTIN LEGAL CONSULTANT A lot of teenagers write to me and say "I want to write a book. I want to get published." And those ... MAUREEN JOHNSON I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life... CHARLES BUKOWSKI That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Like a deep sad note played beneath the ocean waving through the orb the memories of ... PAWAN MISHRA His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING In Cloud computing the difference between a dark cloud and a cloud with a silver lining, is the part... RAJAT MOHAN Life is a re-discovery. BRIAN BLESSED If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga... GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception. DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire! DEYTH BANGER 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... This is the Modern Man, who cannot save himself but wants to save the world. He is the Wise who... CRISTIANE SERRUYA We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. DEYTH BANGER 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. She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 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 This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g... SETH ADAM SMITH The books brought brilliance to my life, and they brought an understanding: Life is a story. Everyth... RENE DENFELD it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY All concepts of making a point is another failure of communication. DEYTH BANGER I just want silence... nothing less... nothing more. DEYTH BANGER Knowledge causes depression and a lot of pressure. DEYTH BANGER This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity. BRANDON SANDERSON Be yourself and people will like you. JEFF KINNEY The best person I know is Myself. JEFF KINNEY If you play football, then for every goal that you score, ask your self, what is the 'grudge of a li... APURVA GAGLANI I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make the people you... FREDRIK BACKMAN Closed eyes, heart not beating, but a living love. AVIS COREA I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY لم يكن بمقدوري سوى الهروب إلى عالمي الخاص: إلى الحلم. أت... مليكة مستظرف I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Would you want you as a friend? PETER STROPLE It should not be surprised by seeing in our weird world that the people for enjoying own bread can a... ANUJ SOMANY Everyone out there is using you for their entertainment and what you mostly need is to be entertainm... SUPERNA BATHEJA Life is a soccer field, don't you think? SHAKIRA I don't know what we're doing here – you and me … I don't know what we are or what we can be, bu... DIANNA HARDY This is too much reality for a Friday. AS GOOD AS IT GETS Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond. ANGELICA HOPES Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE For me, my life is a journey. JAY ELECTRONICA Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA
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