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My first reaction was, 'Edward: Get down on your knees and beg the Lord to give you a hand -- and don't get up too quickly,'


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PAUL BRYANT By the way, I love you.”
“That’s why we're here.
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MIKE HARGROVE When some one messes up dont give them too much rope because people tend to get creative.
ANDONI GARCIA Edward: "Wait--you were trying to hit on me?"
Susan: "Damn straight."
Edward: "The ...
JODI PICOULT Suck on this, Edward.
DANI SMITH I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwi...
GARTH ENNIS Struggling through my life has brought me to my knees over a hundred times, but it's taught me that ...
SHANE J VAN DER VELDE For me, it's a great opportunity on a public platform to get on your knees and humble myself and...
TIM TEBOW If it's a good LP, you'll get that tingle that makes you put it on again no matter what your...
ANDY PARTRIDGE Bullies will knock you to your knees then tell you to get up and fight. Stay on your knees because G...
SHANNON L. ALDER Ralph Fiennes and Edward Norton are among my favorite actors.
VANCE JOY When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray
MADONNA I just blow-dry my hair and put on mascara and lip gloss, and I'm ready to go. I really don'...
KELLY CLARKSON I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
BEAR GRYLLS If we can get the domestic heat to such a temperature, just possibly we can reach down that ladder a...
BOB GELDOF Ecuador has never stated flatly that it would give asylum to Edward Snowden.
BARTON GELLMAN If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
WALLY LAMB We've played in Colorado before. The first couple of minutes, you have to get up and down the floor ...
BROOKE QUEENAN Yes Rosalie, we all know how proficient of an assassin you are.
STEPHENIE MEYER I don't like this," he said. I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was...
RACHEL CAINE Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
SAM RAYBURN Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.
LUKE BRYAN I told Edward to buy it when it was $515,000.
ELLA FITZGERALD I ripped my left arm out of his hand and slammed my elbow into his solar plexus. He exhaled in a gas...
ILONA ANDREWS Inaction only makes a task more daunting in your eye. Act quickly, before you overthink, get anxious...
AVINA CELESTE With the old costumes you always went down on your knees to talk to the kids. Now we just wave to th...
ANDREA BRANDT The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author...
NANCY A. COLLINS Edward Cullen can take his stupid heroine and OD on it. Kate is my own personal brand of Viagra.
EMMA CHASE Feast of Edward the Confessor, 1066 When night comes, list thy deeds; make plain the way 'Twixt hea...
HENRY VAUGHAN Greed (as Ling): You humans always get all "holier-than-thou" when it comes to this stuff... I reall...
HIROMU ARAKAWA Get your seat belt (off) first. Get your windows down as quickly as possible. If you can't get out i...
BRIAN MILLS When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE It seems like a gamble, but that is a set play if Edward sees the right situation. Edward is a good,...
JULIUS MCCHRISTIAN The truth is this: People that give you focus, energy and anger do care. If you were nothing then yo...
SHANNON L. ALDER Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put...
WIM WENDERS Edward Sells, not being stupid, saw the writing on the wall.
GILLIAN TINDALL I had my hands down and he threw a big left hand at me and he got me. He got me buzzing. You learn q...
DONALD BRASHEAR Open your heart. Someone will come. Someone will come for you. But first you must open your heart.
KATE DICAMILLO Yes, you are exactly my brand of heroin.
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N SMITH I was stronger than Edward. I'd made him say ow.
STEPHENIE MEYER I did grow up reading the 'Twilight' books. I feel guilty, but I was always Team Edward.
HALSTON SAGE Edward: Bella, please stop taking your clothes off!
Bella: Why? Did you wanna do that part?
STEPHENIE MEYER We love to come out on 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg' because it's so hyped. You just get ...
ROZONDA THOMAS If anyone was talking about journalism in the '50s - it was Edward R.Murrow.
DAVID STRATHAIRN Reaction for an action, can you truly say you're decisions are heartfelt? Dont be a puppet in your o...
MARCUS STRAKER He was on his knees and had his hand up to his throat, and the blood was squirting through his finge...
JOHN HAGGERTY Okay, look. I get it. You're one of those people who thinks they have to help screwed-up people. Or ...
MICHAEL GRANT So you see, I already have everything I want. And what do you get the man who has everything? Why, y...
JAMES SCHANNEP When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, ...
ETHEL BARRYMORE Edward: You know what the difference is between a dream and a goal? he used to say to me. A plan.
JODI PICOULT Put the money on table and get your mack on, break it down, split it up, and get your math on.
P. DIDDY PUFF DADDY Put the money on table and get your mack on, break it down, split it up, and get your math on.
P. DIDDY, PUFF DADDY We don't know much about Edward Waters. And we can't know for sure how some of our new guys are goin...
ROD BROADWAY Life may bring you to your knees; pray. Then GET UP and participate in the answer. BECOME the remedy...
STEVE MARABOLI Never in his life had Edward been cradled like a baby. Abilene had not done it. Nor had Nellie. And ...
KATE DICAMILLO I know - I'll play you for it," Alice suggested. "Rock, paper, scissors."
Jasper chuckled and E...
STEPHENIE MEYER We will still be working on finding the right combinations against Edward Little. It is their first ...
HEATHER MERRILL knocking the other guy out. It's just getting in there and participating. So we wanted to keep it lo...
BRAD PITT I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just on...
MALCOLM MCDOWELL Bite me.
STEPHENIE MEYER The United States should give former NSA contractor Edward Snowden immunity from prosecution in exch...
ROBERT ZUBRIN That's the NBA life for you. You've got no excuses not to be ready - get the smell off your body, ic...
ANDREW BOGUT I want to be a state finalist at 140. I went up a weight class and I want to try to get some revenge...
ADAM VACCARI We have to get back home and get after it tomorrow. There will be a great crowd there and you can't ...
BRAD HILL Never did I see such an affecting Scene as was the meeting of Edward and Augustus.

'My Li...
JANE AUSTEN You get too close to it. You have to wait for the reaction,
KEITH RICHARDS And love is love, in beggars and in kings.
EDWARD DYER About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire. Second, there was a part ...
STEPHENIE MEYER Edward Bellamy's eugenic utopian novel, "Looking Backward" was the inspiration for American Progress...
A.E. SAMAAN Are you trying to tell me that was Edward Cullen outside? Because you know, I thought he was suppose...
SARAH ALDERSON Today if anything is trying to hold you back, give no attention to it. Get your hopes up, get your f...
GERMANY KENT Edward: “After a few decades, everyone you know will be dead. Problem solved.
STEPHENIE MEYER Are you going to go down on your knees and beg for your life, old one?"
Abbot Mortimer stared ...
BRIAN JACQUES When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let...
LES BROWN You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All th...
PABLO SANDOVAL what choice have I? I cannot live without you, but I will not destroy your soul."
-Edward Culle...
STEPHENIE MEYER You can’t get a reaction from someone who doesn’t give a shit.
EMMA CHASE [She hurried into that film after finishing her role in Edward Burns '] The Groomsmen, ... was kind ...
EDWARD BURNS Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
 DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR She’s in love with me, too, you know."
Edward didn’t answer.
Jacob sighed. “But she ...
STEPHENIE MEYER when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa...
DALLY SALAD Edward can do everything, right?" I explained.
Jasper snickered and Esme gave Edward a reprovin...
STEPHENIE MEYER When I was first swinging, it was a little more difficult left-handed to get my hand out and roll ov...
BRIAN ROBERTS The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK He's said to himself that he's going to go out and be the best first baseman he can be. He never get...
DAN AMBROSE I wanted his death so savagely that the need for it rang in my ears and clouded my sight and was a f...
STEPHENIE MEYER Intend some fear; Be not you spoke with but by mighty suit; And look you get a prayer book in ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even.
ELBERT HUBBARD To give up your seat in a car to a woman, and tread on your neighbor's foot to get even
ELBERT HUBBARD Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Bur...
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EDWARD LEAR The simple act of caring is heroic.
EDWARD ALBERT I am all for the short and merry life.
EDWARD FITZGERALD I'm looking for the best person irregardless of political party, of race or religion, or color o...
EDWARD BROOKE I knew that if it ever got down to a choice between the Party and our traditional democratic structu...
EDWARD DMYTRYK He that has been bitten by a snake is afraid of a rope.
EDWARD ALBEE Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.
EDWARD KENNEDY When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on th...
EDWARD BOND All people are paradoxical. No one is easily reducible, so I like characters who have contradictory ...
EDWARD NORTON The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime.
EDWARD GREY If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
EDWARD HOPPER My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely c...
EDWARD WESTON Sometimes you have to be selfish to be selfless.
EDWARD ALBERT I wouldn't have thought that a wrong theory should lead us to understand better the ordinary qua...
EDWARD WITTEN The Portuguese and Galician term 'saudade' suggests a profoundly bittersweet nostalgia.
EDWARD HIRSCH The more you can create that magic bubble, that suspension of disbelief, for a while, the better.
EDWARD NORTON Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but...
EDWARD HOAGLAND Time flies, death urges, knells call, Heaven invites,Hell threatens.
EDWARD YOUNG Life is the desert, life the solitude, death joins us to the great majority.
EDWARD YOUNG At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.
EDWARD YOUNG All men think all men mortal but themselves.
EDWARD YOUNG There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, 'It is just as I feared! -
Two Owls and a Hen, EDWARD LEAR Shakespeare reveals human nature brilliantly: he shines a light on our instinctive desire to dominat...
EDWARD HALL How blessings brighten as they take their flight.
EDWARD YOUNG