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Related Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER 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 History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES There's not much that I haven't done in my life, but there's lots of things that I'd... ALAN THICKE I wish I’d paid better attention. I didn’t yet think of time as finite. I didn’t fully appreci... JESSICA MARIA TUCCELLI For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... CHRISTINA ENGELA You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN One of my beliefs is that there are certain institutions within a community which stand for the spir... DAVID SOUL All believers are members of the same body and should be viewed and treated that way. HENRY HON I think I am a product of my mother's sensibilities and my mother's values. There has been l... CHER If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time... TWYLA THARP When you do a film in a foreign language, you know there's a cost in it, that you know, unfortun... ALEJANDRO GONZALEZ INARRITU If you look at an old piece of sheet music, there's all kinds of text on it, there are ads, ther... BECK 'The Warmth of the Sun' was a very beautiful song that Brian and I wrote in the time period ... MIKE LOVE You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES Christian thinkers, like everyone else, must accept their situatedness in language (i.e., history, c... MYRON BRADLEY PENNER Poetry is the language in which man explores his own amazement... says heaven and earth in one word.... CHRISTOPHER FRY That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There is no greater glory than to die for love. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nasti... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. S... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN He'll be in our prayers, and there will be lots of prayers for the family. BEN STOCKING In my other books, things do happen, but they are kind of bookends to the real action, which for me ... CHANG-RAE LEE You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Peter...” She let her head fall back against the seat and sighed. “Let’s not go there.” MICHEL FABER If there is a public perception at all, they see the producer as a big old guy who smokes a cigar an... MARSHALL HERSKOVITZ It is not in the still calm of life, or the repose of a pacific station, that great characters are f... ABIGAIL ADAMS If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's... ALEX CHILTON I don't travel and tell stories, because that's not the way these days. But I write my books... LOUIS L'AMOUR This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense... NARCISO RODRIGUEZ I think there's an awful lot of noise about the Church being persecuted but there is a more real... TREVOR PHILLIPS I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. ... ALAN MOORE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I remember writing lyrics for 'Take Me to Church' for a long time before I even had a song i... HOZIER When you listen to my music, you hear that there are all these voices going on in different parts of... VALERIE JUNE She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You should believe in prayers, even though there is no guarantee of success. Just like Love. SARVESH JAIN You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN There's a certain amount of pain and heartache that goes with being the mother of a star and tha... GEORGIA HOLT The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime... STEPHEN FRY Not," Swift said firmly, "for all the tea in China." "That expression has never made sense to m... LISA KLEYPAS 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 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 I was an optimist, a great champion of the human spirit. And I lost that for a time. I feel like I... JUDE LAW The first time that somebody handed me a sheet of paper with a promo on it, it was like a 'throw... DEAN AMBROSE There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever reall... BILLIE PIPER I did an album a long time ago called 'Replicas,' which was entirely science-fiction driven,... GARY NUMAN She was infamous once upon a time. She's legendary now. The girl is a definite force to be reckoned ... REBECCA HARRIS 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 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 Nowadays in pop, there's not a lot of men that are singing big and loud and high - it's not ... ADAM LAMBERT Homer's whole language, the language in which he lived, the language that he breathed, because h... ROBERT FITZGERALD There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the c... GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Commemoration of Mary Slessor, Missionary in West Africa, 1915 A conversion is incomplete if it ... WILLIAM BARCLAY 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 That's what's great about the horror genre is that you're getting a load of people toget... WES CRAVEN There's a clean simplicity to the plotting of 'Sinister,' whether you like it or not. An... SCOTT DERRICKSON Lord, help us to choose humility over pride. Help us to choose love over our reputation. ANDRENA SAWYER Feast of John, Apostle & Evangelist In several striking cases of conversion I have studied, those... OWEN BRANDON If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, t... EDDIE VEDDER In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. We are not to comprehend;the secret of roses, but maybeswimming in the incantation of roses.Or may b... SOHRAB SEPEHRI Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that i... DANNY ELFMAN You're always asking yourself, are you doing the best for your child? And other parents let you ... TOM ELLIS When you come into my pieces, it's not an intellectual experience, it's a physical experienc... BILL VIOLA Perl was designed to work more like a natural language. It's a little more complicated but there... LARRY WALL There's a specificity of language that's required in Shakespeare that most drama students in... JAMES AVERY The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for wha... WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING One of the things in my experience about changing parties: There are very few exceptions to the gene... PETE GALLEGO
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LISA MCDERMOTT I don't need one. I'll type and answer my own calls. I'll do whatever it takes. LINDA MCDERMOTT When I do something, you'll get my all. LINDA MCDERMOTT I had to do a lot of paperwork for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and the county, pay vendo... LINDA MCDERMOTT You're going to get your money's worth, because I'm willing to work. LINDA MCDERMOTT Trial counsel could have used Heaton's admissions to argue reasonable doubt as to the prosecution's ... LINDA MCDERMOTT He is real anxious about the appeal. LINDA MCDERMOTT I certainly don't think our client is going to be executed on Tuesday. It's very likely that we're g... LINDA MCDERMOTT It's likely we will ultimately end up with the same result. LINDA MCDERMOTT We will certainly be asking to join that petition. We will be asking for a stay. LINDA MCDERMOTT I was never really a child actor. I was working sporadically in indie films in Pennsylvania, but I w... CHARLIE MCDERMOTT I can be very lazy sometimes. Really lethargic! CHARLIE MCDERMOTT We have been able to start a program for elementary school children with TUSD. JUDY MCDERMOTT More than 350 million households all over the world watch this tournament. JUDY MCDERMOTT The economic impact, obviously, is enormous for the area. The national television coverage is for al... JUDY MCDERMOTT This is a very strong field, with winners of majors, and some of the top up-and-coming golfers. JUDY MCDERMOTT Everything Ashley Humphrey did was this guy's fault. Blame it on Mr. Humphrey. JOSEPH MCDERMOTT It sounds like a long time and it is a long time, but it is not death. JOSEPH MCDERMOTT He's not willing to pay for a study if the decision has already been made. JOE MCDERMOTT Well, I think the cell phone calls, the letters that he wrote in jail, those were pretty damaging. A... JOE MCDERMOTT So now everybody who paid higher taxes has to go back and recalculate 2002 taxes. JOE MCDERMOTT This is a challenge for tax practitioners now, too. JOE MCDERMOTT The state can't take that hit all at once. JOE MCDERMOTT Heating relief or exemption is a very hot topic ... especially for people on fixed incomes. JOE MCDERMOTT We did some of these cosmetic-type improvements so when people come to the grounds, not only do they... JOE MCDERMOTT When a family comes in, they're getting more for their money. JOE MCDERMOTT This is my 18th fair and I've never heard as much buzz about this one and the previous one. JOE MCDERMOTT I don't think he's as bad of a guy as what the D.A.'s office wants to say. SEAN MCDERMOTT Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve. ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date. ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way. ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit... ALICE OSWALD I think that I do feel that my nature is to express what this self, this particular self at this tim... ALICE WALKER I don't call myself a Buddhist. I'm a free spirit. I believe I'm here on earth to admire... ALICE WALKER It is because I recognize the brutality with which my own multi-branched ancestors have been treated... ALICE WALKER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to... ALICE DREGER Instead of constantly enhancing the norm - forever upping the ante of the 'normal' with new ... ALICE DREGER One of the rules of Greek lament poetry is that it mustn't mention the dead by name in case of i... ALICE OSWALD The sea has this contradictory quality, that the more you see of it, the more it overwhelms the eye ... ALICE OSWALD I think it is more of an intuitive, circular kind of personality, for starters. And, as I say of hor... ALICE WALTON It seems our fate to be incorrect (look where we live, for example), and in our incorrectness stand. ALICE WALKER I find talking about my work harder than it might be if honesty wasn't my calling card. ALICE SEBOLD