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Sometimes college seemed merely an endless exhausting string of appointments.


Sylvia Brownrigg

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DEAN KOONTZ If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions.
JOHN GREEN There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
JOANNA FIELD The endless definitions for feminism are exhausting. It's this, it isn't this, it's only...
CAZZIE DAVID The moment seemed endless, but it was probably only half that.
STEVE TOLTZ Sometimes not talking is effortless, and other times it’s more exhausting than lifting pianos.
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FANIE MALULEKE I miss sometimes the buzz of America. A sense that anything can change at the drop of a hat. In a wa...
ELIZABETH MCGOVERN If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But w...
JOHN GREEN Appointments chair is a position with an unreasonably disproportionate amount of power.
ETHAN UCKER It can perhaps seem that this area is plagued by an endless string of crises and that it's impossibl...
KJELL MAGNE BONDEVIK It is awfully exhausting and devastating. This is sport and sometimes it simply does not work.
JAROMIR JAGR Sometimes the hand pulls the puppet, sometimes the puppet pulls the hand, but the string runs both w...
DANIEL ABRAHAM It's been an exhausting series of events to get to this point.
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EDWARD WITTEN We are surrounded by the absurd excess of the universe. By meaningless bulk, vastness without size, ...
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ELIZABETH WINDER ...the endless repetition of an ordinary miracle.
ORHAN PAMUK A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inne...
KENNETH CLARK People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they&...
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AARON ROWAND In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which ...
CALDWELL O'KEEFE There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...
JOHN GREEN She's a package of dynamite, an endless worker.
TOMMY LASORDA Life is an endless process of self-discovery.
JAMES GARDNER Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.
MARTIN FREEMAN Sylvia Day's writing is stunningly sensual.
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DAVE BARRY An anxious heart is like a string that's out of tune.
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ Here’s to all the places we went. And all the places we’ll go. And here’s me, whispering again...
JOHN GREEN I'm not interested in dating a girl I'm not gonna marry
JOHN GREEN The future will erase everything--there's no level of fame or genius that allows you to transcend ob...
JOHN GREEN The point of an election is to evaluate someone's performance — my performance as appointments chai...
ETHAN UCKER In college, my friend Melanie and I used to have weekly Jimmy Stewart viewings, and 'Harvey'...
RICH SOMMER Gratitude is an endless praise.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Language. The process of sharing with words seemed such a futile exercise sometimes.
GUY GAVRIEL KAY History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only th...
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SYLVIA PLATH The bottom string is tuned to an open G.
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ANNE ENGH You wait for a gem in an endless sea of blah.
LAWRENCE GROSSMAN Waiting's exhausting.
TOBA BETA Cyrilly expected Sylvia – as an intelligent and ambitious young woman – to walk around pale-mout...
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WILSON MIZNER The divinity within is an endless strength.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA We had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with ...
JOHN GREEN Martha thanks Sylvia, gesturing with the book. "Just remember not to try to hard with understanding ...
NAOMI WOOD The power of heart is much stronger than the power of mind to empower our life.
ANUJ SOMANY A painting means as much to you as a string of pearls to an ape.
PAUL SCOFIELD Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks.
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE Washington is an endless series of mock palaces clearly built for clerks
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE A food that would actually explode was an endless source of fascination.
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AVIJEET DAS He seemed to be unrepentant, and there was no remorse or even sometimes there was a hint of defiance...
ADNAN PACHACHI In an endless silence even screams sound silent.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Life is an endless search for one's self.
MARLON MOLINA Anything short of excellence is merely an excuse.
FAISAL KHOSA Sylvia quotes Dick as telling her: "I am afraid the demands of wifehood and motherhood would preoccu...
ELIZABETH WINDER The depleted ranks of peers are annually replenished by fresh appointments from the ranks of its hig...
MAJ JOSIAH BUNTING It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
HENRY JAMES Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.
ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.
HARUKI MURAKAMI There is an endless supply of speech that seems to offend these days.
DAVID HUDSON Human life is just a given series, an endless series of such moments,
ROMAN POLANSKI South by Southwest, the optimism of an endless horizon and blue skies ahead.
MICHAEL KORS Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation
ROBERTO ASSAGIOLI Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.
DEJAN STOJANOVIC Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time, and sometimes it seemed to m...
GRAHAM GREENE The truth is . . . Well, the truth is the truth, and thus worth telling, but sometimes truths are so...
MERRIE HASKELL His whole future seemed suddenly to be unrolled before him; and passing down its endless emptiness h...
EDITH WHARTON Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.
JOE GARAGIOLA Cheating death was exhausting.
MELISSA LANDERS The governor has always made appointments within accordance of the law.
HENRY FAWELL We schedule our chair appointments at the end of the day.
DAVE HARKNESS But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of...
SAM TAYLOR I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways...
MARILYN MONROE Endless effort, endless humility, endless modesty.
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ERIN MORGENSTERN Self-questioning – an effort to get in touch with our essential self – is an endless stream of t...
KILROY J. OLDSTER Time, which runs through the world like an endless tinsel thread, seemed to pass through the centre ...
ROBERT MUSIL Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
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PETER USTINOV Those of us who write spend our entire lives in an endless English class.
JOSS WHEDON Love is an act of endless forgiveness; a tender look which becomes a habit.
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LILY CHATTERJEE I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.
VLADIMIR NABOKOV Our ability to measure and apportion time affords an almost endless source of comfort.
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SYLVIA PLATH I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
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SYLVIA PLATH I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATH I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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SYLVIA PLATH Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
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SYLVIA PLATH When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
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SYLVIA PLATH The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance.
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There is no stopping it.
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SYLVIA PLATH Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass s...
SYLVIA PLATH Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
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SYLVIA PLATH I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
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SYLVIA PLATH let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
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SYLVIA EARLE I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
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SYLVIA EARLE You put me through hell. On purpose. Made me suffer. And there’s no end in sight. I don’t know w...
SYLVIA DAY If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
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SYLVIA KRISTEL It's so sad: anything that has to do with God, people want to dispel.
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SYLVIA EARLE Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
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SYLVIA DAY See, Heaven is not someplace on a disc in the sky floating around, it's right here amongst us.
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SYLVIA PANKHURST Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.
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SYLVIA EARLE Self confidence for me is a fragile fleece.
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SYLVIA BROWNE A spirit is, like, your mother, my dad, who've made it. They can come around, but they come around i...
SYLVIA BROWNE A ghost is someone who hasn't made it - in other words, who died, and they don't know they're dead. ...
SYLVIA BROWNE I was born this way, and I don't know how I do it. I can do it from a piece of paper. I can do it fr...
SYLVIA BROWNE The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call the...
SYLVIA BROWNE Animal totems, like the tiger, come from the Other Side to protect us while we are away from Home.
SYLVIA BROWNE Let me assure you that all of our pets, and animals of every kind will be with us for eternity on th...
SYLVIA BROWNE Every time I slip into the ocean, it's like going home.
SYLVIA EARLE