Never did he once consider directing his hatred toward the hunters. Such an emotion would have destroyed him ... His subconscious knew what his min did not guess-that hating them would have consumed him, burned him up like a piece of soft coal, leaving only flakes of ash and a question mark of smoke.
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COOPER And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote ... BIBLE You may fancy the Lord had His own power to fall back upon. But that would have been to Him just the... GEORGE MACDONALD Every Sunday he would cook big dinners at his house. He was such a storyteller. And I never saw him ... GLENN KROLL He was just such a good guy and he would give you the shirt off his back, it didn't matter, it didn'... JACK TAYLOR He used to hide his true self because he feared people wouldn’t like him, or would judge him for b... SCOTT STABILE No. Those memories would not serve him here. Only the fury. That metallic, constant anger that knew ... LAUREN GILLEY It's his first start. We knew it was going to be a little rough on him. We knew he would give us opp... CATO JUNE How did I get here How did I end up in the arms of a boy I barely knew but knew I didn't want to los... RUTA SEPETYS I'd never played him and did not know what his tactics would be. 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AIS My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable... JOYCE MEYER I never saw him blow a sketch. But he was quite self-contained. It was hard to write collaboratively... ERIC MORECAMBE She hadn’t needed him to escape that place. But rather than making him angry, it only made him pro... D.B. REYNOLDS He told us a story once that his father would never accept 'I can't' as an answer. We never tell him... BOO DAVIS He gave me an opportunity to swim against the best swimmer of his day in the lane next to me, ... Do... MARK SPITZ Signý knew she would die a thousand deaths upon seeing another woman with him, bearing his children... FARRAH NASEEM Fights with my father were really quite brutal. I would not live his vision. I would not become who ... KEVYN AUCOIN Him would Paul have to go forth with him; and took and circumcised him because of the Jews which wer... BIBLE He knew himself well enough to know his own faults. 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RICCARDO BRUNI He loved his family. But he was not proud of them. Their principal achievement was survival. It woul... RICHARD FLANAGAN If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee... NIKOLA TESLA If Edison had a needle to find in a haystack, he would proceed at once with the diligence of the bee... NIKOLA TESLA I never thought much about flowers until I made the close acquaintance of a man who knew all about t... LLOYD C. DOUGLAS She wanted to write to him. Tell him she was glad he was back, that he was alive, that he was home a... COCO J. GINGER I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of ... INDU MURALIDHARAN I have often thought that Walter Mitty had it in him to be more than a hen-pecked loser. Instead of ... INDU MURALIDHARAN That tells you something about him right there. He never let up once. He kept us focused, encouragin... DEMOND GARTH What grief is not taken away by time? What passion will survive an unequal battle with it? I knew a ... NIKOLAI GOGOL I was not strong enough to defeat him. Like his master before him, be destroyed, he must. YODA Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather tha... SPENCER W. KIMBALL For him to have understood me would have meant reorganizing his thinking... giving up his intellectu... EDWARD T. HALL Much of his poetry would come from something happening inside of him. It was always something that h... CELIA JACOBOWITZ How many times had Paladin looked into this human face, its features animated by neurological impuls... ANNALEE NEWITZ [Capote never taped his subjects or even took notes — he boasted that he had 94% recall, often tea... REX REED Did he have his eye turned toward history? Perhaps. Perhaps he did not want to continue to be either... CHARLES BULLOCK Did he have his eye turned toward history? Perhaps, ... Perhaps he did not want to continue to be ei... CHARLES BULLOCK In his heyday, he could take an audience of any size and have them eating out of his hand. He'd just... BILL EMERSON I would come to his defense if I knew what he had said, and if he had said blacks have an inherent p... CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER He was my right-hand man, no question. He worked with me most of the time as my offensive line coach... BILL MARION When I had Richie in Cleveland he did this once, and I told him he looked like a Q-Tip. Maybe when h... MIKE HARGROVE He knew in the way that she was a part of him, the way her breathing was his breathing, and her drea... CASSANDRA CLARE The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while ... THOMAS MANN What seems strange is that Obama elicits such extreme dislike when, in fact, he is an exemplary fami... DAVID HORSEY And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Ba... BIBLE And you're not leaving," she said. "Promise me." It was as if she had asked him to promis... SHARON SHINN An hour ago, I never would have thought that someone like him could be my savior, but he is. What ty... KATIE MCGARRY Lincoln's stepmother probably did not teach him very much, but she kindled his mind and encouraged h... SOURCE UNKNOWN When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less ... RAINER MARIA RILKE He always had a big heart. Little kids would want him to sign their shirts, and he enjoyed doing tha... PETE GILLEN My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conf... TATE DONOVAN Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he kn... RICHARD MATHESON You sick piece of shit," Adam says to him, his voice low, measured. "Such unfortunate language.... 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And He did, and He did, and He did and then gave her Halle who ga... TONI MORRISON And fantasy it was, for we were not strong, only aggressive; we were not free, merely licensed; we w... TONI MORRISON What I think the political correctness debate is really about is the power to be able to define. The... TONI MORRISON The human body is robust. It can gather strength when it's in mortal danger. TONI MORRISON Every sentence, every word, was new to them and they listened to what he said like bright-eyed raven... TONI MORRISON We mistook violence for passion, indolence for leisure, and thought recklessness was freedom. TONI MORRISON ...the change was adjustment without improvement. TONI MORRISON Violet learned then what she had forgotten until this moment: that laughter is serious. More complic... TONI MORRISON We women, me and you. Tell me something real. Don’t just say I’m grown and ought to know. I don�... TONI MORRISON Being in the desert was brilliant and it was hard. TONI COLLETTE I'm a businesswoman who's serious about her money. I want an empire. TONI BRAXTON How do you know which path you should take? Take one and it will tell you if you've chosen wisely. I... TONI SORENSON Some of the most memorable paths I've taken have been detours. TONI SORENSON Treasures are not found where many feet have trampled. They are found along the paths that no one el... TONI SORENSON All paths eventually lead home. TONI SORENSON It may seem that you are on the path alone, but the light that guides you is coming from somewhere. ... TONI SORENSON How do you choose your paths? Who says you do? Sometimes the path chooses you. TONI SORENSON Nature makes the best paths that leads to the best places. TONI SORENSON ..And i can't get you out of my mind, God knows how hard I've tried TONI BRAXTON I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They&... TONI COLLETTE The better you know yourself, the better your relationship with the rest of the world. TONI COLLETTE Actually, the year 2000 is our 25th anniversary of doing Captain & Tennille. I can't believe... TONI TENNILLE I love holidays. It's such a wonderful time for the whole family to be together and not have to ... TONI COLLETTE I think that beauty can injure you to death. It can cause an injury that can never be cured. Or it c... TONI SERVILLO My fears teach me courage. My weaknesses coach me to strength. My scars remind me not to make the sa... TONI SORENSON I can't record in the morning because I sound like Barry White. TONI BRAXTON I grew up watching a lot of American television and so the American sound has been in my psyche some... TONI COLLETTE Grammys, American Music Awards, successful albums, I'd pick my kids any day over any of it. TONI BRAXTON Until you believe you can do it, it's going to be difficult to convince anyone else you can do it. 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