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The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.
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They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are eas...
LIONEL SHRIVER![]()
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but of...
UPTON SINCLAIR![]()
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make thin...
DAN GILBERT![]()
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
PHILIPPA GREGORY What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone...
ROALD DAHL But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as ...
JOHN LANCHESTER![]()
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost alway...
NEIL GAIMAN![]()
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle ...
SALLY RIDE I knew something was wrong this morning because he always forewarns me when he's going to be absent ...
DONNA JONES Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility,...
MARGO JEFFERSON If you look at the characters that were predominantly on their schedule, with 'The West Wing,' 'Fras...
BILL CARROLL![]()
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
EDWARD W. HOWE I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. ...
CLAIRE LEGRAND People start to worry that something may have gone wrong, and I think the doctors involved should gi...
DAVID PRENTICE![]()
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the governme...
JAMES WELCH![]()
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci...
MARY KARR Some people choose to be wrong just to say they were always right...
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I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is s...
JOHN OSBORNE The people they were mad at weren't these people. They had nothing to do with anything. They happene...
HENRY REINER![]()
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do.
E. W. HOWE In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET Never regret when something has gone wrong & don’t look backward. Only time to look backward is to...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the ...
MARGUERITE GARDINER There were two sides to this, and they were all trying to pull the strings they had politically. I t...
CRAIG COHOON If something goes wrong, say a particular aspect of a software system that the market is using, then...
RUSSELL BROWN![]()
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de...
JO NESBO People are trying to do the right thing, but nobody knows what the right thing is. Every country fee...
LAURIE GARRETT![]()
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.
ANN PATCHETT![]()
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER![]()
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Coach was trying to throw different stuff at them. When they were in the zone, he wanted me to work ...
KAMMRON TAYLOR It was an unfortunate series of events; they were trying to do a job.
DONNA CORDOVA We're always amazed at how often people say when they are offered a buyout that they always wanted t...
DUNCAN MATHISON We were always positive. There were some negative people, but they were wrong in the end.
ANTONIO MUNOZ I'm trying to do something similar to what Carmelo did, ... Trying to win a national title.
CHARLIE VILLANUEVA And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
RACHEL WARD![]()
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell ...
FERDINAND MOUNT She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g...
JIM HOUDEK Before you tell people you are bored, there is one thing you have to do. Find out what has gone wron...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discret...
PETER HøEG I think it's totally wrong to charge the sheriff. Right, wrong or indifferent, people were in need. ...
TERRY STEED The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO![]()
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
NAPOLEON![]()
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE![]()
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
NAPOLéON BONAPARTE It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to t...
ERIC MASKIN While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triump...
EDWARD HALL I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me...
JOHN KEY It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had rea...
FRANCES FARMER Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead ...
PAUL ARDEN Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else ...
PAULA GARCES Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like th...
PATRICK MARBER![]()
One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They...
RYAN HOLMES![]()
Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and ...
EMMA TENNANT We've adapted to having this as a part of the way that we attend events. It hasn't really deterred p...
LYNN JAMIESON However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw y...
DAN HARRIS There is a biblical injunction to tell your children, but the sages who created the Seder several th...
GIL MARKS The result of trying to fix others is frustration; the result of trying to fix ourselves is wisdom.
JIM GENOVESE They (the orphans) thought they had gone to Disneyland. They were excited to see American visitors.
DEANN SAMPLEY They said when we were getting to know them, 'You know, we're not out trying to buy problems. We don...
JACK SODEN The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the ...
BRANDY HEINEMAN They had gone in and cleaned it as well as they could. It was very, very cold because they were tryi...
DEB DENNING Unless they were living in a cave or something, they have to know that all this has gone on.
DR. LIBBY CHAR![]()
Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle o...
RACHEL CAINE Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost...
NORMAN DOIDGE![]()
When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as i...
EDMUND WHITE He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those p...
ARNALDUR INDRIðASON![]()
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deli...
JOHN HUME I'd like to see something similar to the program that was in place back when Jimmy Carter was presid...
DAN SEYMOUR I'm not trying to figure out the puzzle in other people. I'm trying to fix my puzzle when I see it i...
SUSIE L HILL![]()
Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they we...
JEFF LINDSAY Never curse your self on being wrong. Even something has gone wrong look for something that might be...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We were playing down to the wire. If people think we were trying to throw games or whatever, they've...
WALTER MCCARTY Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are
SAVANIA CHINA People often think they can't grill seafood, because they grilled the wrong seafood.
KEVIN STEELE If you did something wrong, it is because of a choice you have made. It is true that there are peopl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each ...
CHELSEA M. CAMERON![]()
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me.
ANNE BRONTë![]()
And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there ...
ANNE RICE![]()
I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself.
MIKE PIAZZA We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were mill...
KIT HARINGTON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...![]()
Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come.
LUCY LARCOM![]()
It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the c...
V.E. SCHWAB This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
IAN RANKIN![]()
Had not enough gone wrong?
BROM
AMJED ALAA
The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired. JOHN LA FARGE
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are eas... LIONEL SHRIVER
All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescabably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but of... UPTON SINCLAIR
I was always trying to get people to fix things that are wrong. Now, it was, 'How do I make thin... DAN GILBERT
Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister. PHILIPPA GREGORY What on earth were you trying to do, make yourself look handsome or something? You look like someone...
ROALD DAHL But knowing that you had gone wrong, and knowing how you had gone wrong, were not the same thing as ...
JOHN LANCHESTER
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost alway... NEIL GAIMAN
After the Challenger accident, NASA put in a lot of time to improve the safety of the space shuttle ... SALLY RIDE I knew something was wrong this morning because he always forewarns me when he's going to be absent ...
DONNA JONES Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility,...
MARGO JEFFERSON If you look at the characters that were predominantly on their schedule, with 'The West Wing,' 'Fras...
BILL CARROLL
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. EDWARD W. HOWE I suppose most things in a person's life are good for a while, even if that doesn't last very long. ...
CLAIRE LEGRAND People start to worry that something may have gone wrong, and I think the doctors involved should gi...
DAVID PRENTICE
Before, Indian people had been so defeated, they were always looking for outsiders, for the governme... JAMES WELCH
Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsci... MARY KARR Some people choose to be wrong just to say they were always right...
MIGUEL REYNOLDS BRANDAO
I never deliberately set out to shock, but when people don't walk out of my plays I think there is s... JOHN OSBORNE The people they were mad at weren't these people. They had nothing to do with anything. They happene...
HENRY REINER
People are always neglecting something they can do in trying to do something they can't do. E. W. HOWE In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET Never regret when something has gone wrong & don’t look backward. Only time to look backward is to...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA People seem to lose all respect for the past; events succeed each other with such velocity that the ...
MARGUERITE GARDINER There were two sides to this, and they were all trying to pull the strings they had politically. I t...
CRAIG COHOON If something goes wrong, say a particular aspect of a software system that the market is using, then...
RUSSELL BROWN
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I de... JO NESBO People are trying to do the right thing, but nobody knows what the right thing is. Every country fee...
LAURIE GARRETT
Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong. ANN PATCHETT
Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD Coach was trying to throw different stuff at them. When they were in the zone, he wanted me to work ...
KAMMRON TAYLOR It was an unfortunate series of events; they were trying to do a job.
DONNA CORDOVA We're always amazed at how often people say when they are offered a buyout that they always wanted t...
DUNCAN MATHISON We were always positive. There were some negative people, but they were wrong in the end.
ANTONIO MUNOZ I'm trying to do something similar to what Carmelo did, ... Trying to win a national title.
CHARLIE VILLANUEVA And just when I though things were starting to get better, everything had gone wrong again.
RACHEL WARD
Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell ... FERDINAND MOUNT She hoped that they would someday find a cure for cancer. She never wanted her kids, or anyone, to g...
JIM HOUDEK Before you tell people you are bored, there is one thing you have to do. Find out what has gone wron...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI Maybe it's wrong when we remember breakthroughs to our own being as something that occurs in discret...
PETER HøEG I think it's totally wrong to charge the sheriff. Right, wrong or indifferent, people were in need. ...
TERRY STEED The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. NAPOLEON
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. NAPOLéON BONAPARTE It wasn't that Harvard was deliberately trying to overwork me, but I think I had a tendency to t...
ERIC MASKIN While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triump...
EDWARD HALL I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me...
JOHN KEY It puzzled me that other people hadn't found out, too. God was gone. We were younger. We had rea...
FRANCES FARMER Too many people spend too much time trying to perfect something before they actually do it. Instead ...
PAUL ARDEN Being clingy may work for puppies, but not for you.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Growing up with Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek - people who were always trying to do something else ...
PAULA GARCES Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like th...
PATRICK MARBER
One thing I would like to see in Vancouver and Canada is something similar to the PayPal mafia. They... RYAN HOLMES
Quite a lot of people wanted me to write about my family, I suppose for fairly obvious reasons, and ... EMMA TENNANT We've adapted to having this as a part of the way that we attend events. It hasn't really deterred p...
LYNN JAMIESON However, once you unburden yourself from the delusion that people are deliberately trying to screw y...
DAN HARRIS There is a biblical injunction to tell your children, but the sages who created the Seder several th...
GIL MARKS The result of trying to fix others is frustration; the result of trying to fix ourselves is wisdom.
JIM GENOVESE They (the orphans) thought they had gone to Disneyland. They were excited to see American visitors.
DEANN SAMPLEY They said when we were getting to know them, 'You know, we're not out trying to buy problems. We don...
JACK SODEN The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the ...
BRANDY HEINEMAN They had gone in and cleaned it as well as they could. It was very, very cold because they were tryi...
DEB DENNING Unless they were living in a cave or something, they have to know that all this has gone on.
DR. LIBBY CHAR
Parents had some kind of sin radar, Claire thought. They always called when you were in the middle o... RACHEL CAINE Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost...
NORMAN DOIDGE
When my lover Hubert Sorin was dying of AIDS, he was always trying to fix me up - posthumously, as i... EDMUND WHITE He impressed people. Unconsciously. Some people are like that. I'm not. There's something in those p...
ARNALDUR INDRIðASON
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deli... JOHN HUME I'd like to see something similar to the program that was in place back when Jimmy Carter was presid...
DAN SEYMOUR I'm not trying to figure out the puzzle in other people. I'm trying to fix my puzzle when I see it i...
SUSIE L HILL
Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they we... JEFF LINDSAY Never curse your self on being wrong. Even something has gone wrong look for something that might be...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA We were playing down to the wire. If people think we were trying to throw games or whatever, they've...
WALTER MCCARTY Always assume your assumptions about others are wrong. Because often, they are
SAVANIA CHINA People often think they can't grill seafood, because they grilled the wrong seafood.
KEVIN STEELE If you did something wrong, it is because of a choice you have made. It is true that there are peopl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What we are is what we were always meant to be, and that's writers.
ELIZABETH GEORGE We were both broken, trying to become unbroken. Maybe we just needed a little help. Not to fix each ...
CHELSEA M. CAMERON
I cannot love a man who cannot protect me. ANNE BRONTë
And this time as the lashes come, try to think about the pain, instead of against it, because there ... ANNE RICE
I'm not trying to prove anybody wrong, I'm just trying to prove something to myself. MIKE PIAZZA We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were mill...
KIT HARINGTON Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
Whatever with the past has gone, the best is always yet to come. LUCY LARCOM
It was better not to care but sometimes, people got in. Like a knife against armor, they found the c... V.E. SCHWAB This man had something to hide, some shame in his past, and those with a past can always be bought.
IAN RANKIN
Had not enough gone wrong? BROM
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GOD SAYS; YOU'LL NEVER LOSE A FIGHT THAT WASN'T FIXED!
YOUR TWIN-FLAME IS ON BACK ORDER.
Whoever is happy will make others happy too. 
Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother T... 
Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and... 
Ireland is such an amazing country, and I have this little dream in the back of my head that someday... 
For me, Jesus is my cleft in the rock. He is my safest friend, my safe totally loving accepting big ... 
I got to the point where the vampire began describing his brother's death, and the whole thing just ... 
To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself. 
I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one half his days and ma... 
It seems as if life and hope must cease together. 
A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine. 
The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thin... 
I look around at my peers, and I'm so blown away by their talent and their beauty and their cool... 
I cannot promise very much.I give you the images I know.Lie still with me and watch.We laugh and we ... 
The great question, is there anything at all which is worth fighting such a war about, with the deva... 
I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine h... 
I am miles ahead with ideas and excitement in the mind, and that is where it all begins. I feel that... 
My heart is singing for joy this morning! A miracle has happened! The light of understanding has sho... 
I think that there are some teachers that do a very good job of incorporating culture and history, .... 
Children require guidance and sympathy far more than instruction 
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. 
Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in ... 
Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the... 
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle yo... 
The house of my body has spoken 
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. 
I possess the faculty of enjoying the company of those I - of my friends as well in silence as in co... 
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between rea... 
I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. 
I suppose [...] that the most convincing way to fool an enemy would be to fool a friend. 
Some men die for lack of love…some die because of it. Think about it." - Daemon 
When you sit in silence long enough, you learn that silence has a motion. It glides over you without... 
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. 
And when our baby stirs and struggles to be born it compels humility: what we began is now its own. 
Make no judgments where you have no compassion. 
The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all thing... 
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. 
Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ... 
Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent t... 
Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody. 