Strike was becoming steadily more taciturn, his expression brooding. Robin wondered whether this was because he was hungry—he was a man who needed regular sustenance to maintain an equable mood—or for some darker reason.
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Related There was an edge to his expression, like he didn't trust anyone who was more attractive than he was... MARISSA MEYER He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe... DOUGLAS ADAMS He was seriously thinking of becoming a monk. He thought he had to be celibate to maintain the purit... MIMI ROGERS Was there anything more astounding or more frightening to a man, he wondered, than a strong woman in... J.D. ROBB In the many months of his absence, she never wondered whether he was true to her or not; she knew he... AYN RAND I always related most to Steve McQueen because he was more of an outcast than Robert Redford or Paul... PATRICK FUGIT The leg was sent to Robin,' Strike reminded him. 'There's as much chance that she's seen this woman ... ROBERT GALBRAITH It's way too soon to know whether this was drug related, whether this was some sort of retaliation f... BILL SCHWARTZ He had to feel those lips on him again. Had. To. This wasn’t a mild expression of preference. This... TESSA DARE In taking stock of a politician, the first question is not whether he was a good man who used righte... FREDERICK SCOTT OLIVER Thorne cleared his throat. "We need to get back to the house. We've already risked drawing enough at... MARISSA MEYER But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor... SUE MILLER What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw! DEYTH BANGER I was build with bassically upon on a code... lie... what's a lie and so on and so on!? -... DEYTH BANGER The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER They were questioning who he was, what he did, what his research was and whether it was related to c... DENNIS JETT This was a justifiable homicide - this is what the evidence will show to you. There was a much darke... MARCUS TOPEL He was not anything like what was portrayed to me by several people. ... What I found was a young ma... HUE JACKSON He was young. He seemed cool and hip. He wore his hair long and he rode a motorcycle. ... He was a p... TODD HICKS He's a guy that just gets better and better every outing. Today was just more of the same from him. ... HECTOR RODRIGUEZ He was the kind of guy TV stations needed in the beginning. He was a very inventive person who dedic... LOU PIERCE Whether or not Billy got what he wanted out of this game, only he knows. For us, there was a lot of ... BUTCH BEARD He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, or better, or worse) and about other p... VICTORIA SCHWAB I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge. SARAH DESSEN There was a man from Sung who pulled at his rice plants because he was worried about their failure t... CONFUCIUS He was a very bright, articulate man who was always up-to-date with current events because of his ne... JAN HUSS C.J. had once believed that he understood who he was, what he was about, what he was capable of. But... ROY L. PICKERING JR. We never needed for anything, ... My father was a simple man. That's the way he was, and that's the ... HAL LEBOVITZ He was just finding his feet. He was becoming our main man in midfield, keeping the ball for us and ... STEVE MCCLAREN I was raised to be some kind of artist. ELLAR COLTRANE This was how Johan Cruyff worked. He was demanding a lot, but when you got there, and you were in hi... PEP GUARDIOLA Everything you could imagine Robin Williams being, he was and more. ROBERTO AGUIRE He was a great person. There was no (reason) for this to happen. JUAN TORRES The decision that has to be made was whether it was material, whether he knew he was lying under oat... BARBARA OLSON He was good-hearted. He was a very good man who would take care of his kids. JASMINE THOMAS Anyways, that very same night there was a fight in the casino on B Deck. Some of the passengers got ... CHRISTINA ENGELA He gave you his word. That was it. A handshake was all he needed. MARILYN WEEKS He was a relieved man; he was an angry man. ROBERT LUDLUM Obviously he was bitter at Calzaghe and the German officials when he thought he won. The reason he h... BRIAN HUGHES The reason why I left 15 years ago was because it was becoming agony for me, ... But I'm a very diff... JANE FONDA He was a man who was charged with the work he did in life because he was not one to ask questions - ... DOUGLAS ADAMS If a man found his dream wife, it was because he was wide awake. MATSHONA DHLIWAYO For the song 'Truth or Consequence,' me and [bassist Mick Morris] had this friend from Salt Lake Cit... JAMES HART He meant so much to us and I don't like to use the word teacher or professor because he was so much ... CATHERINE HAYDEN Her gaze on Vane, Patience wished she could see his eyes. His expression was unreadable. Shoulders p... STEPHANIE LAURENS This woman was consuming him, bit by bit. She was becoming the reason and the reward of his existenc... DANIELLE MONSCH I held his hand. I told him I loved him for some reason. I told him he was doing good and he was goi... ASHLEY PERRY Why did you marry Dad, Mom?" My mother sniffled through her nose, looked at me, then smiled. <... MARGARET MCMULLAN He was nervous, nervous all week long. And this was a good-hitting team. We wanted to keep his pitch... BOBBY BYERLY President Kennedy was willing to go to war. He was not a coward. The man had been in war and so had ... KEVIN COSTNER He just wondered why a bomb was put in front his house. DEFENCE MINISTER THAMMARAK ISARANGURA I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943. J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON I was born in a blender. LORNA LUFT I was born 'neath a clouded star. JULIA WARD HOWE I wasn't born a redhead, but I was born to be a redhead. GEORGETTE MOSBACHER I was born to be funny. BUDDY HACKETT I was born in Palo Alto, California in 1961. ERIC ALLIN CORNELL He couldn't even tell whether he was angry or contrite, whether it was forgiveness he wanted or the ... RICHARD YATES The figure of the gunman in the window was inextricable from the victim and his history. This sustai... DON DELILLO That was him being less stubborn and making some changes he needed to make at the plate. He used to ... CHIPPER JONES I was surprised, because he came in here and signed up nonchalantly, just like a regular client woul... NATHAN BROWN His entire life was becoming a race against the natural -- and he was winning. GLORIA NAYLOR I knew this day was coming. I knew he was going to do this at some point, somewhere, and people woul... EVAN BROCK It was a cold morning, and he shivered a little; but he had been taught by his uncle that his prayer... W. SOMERSET MAUGHAM He felt that the children brought him great pleasure. His daughter, who is a dancer and choreographe... CELIA JACOBOWITZ I want to hear one more of your stories Tangle up in your dreams, give up the fight ‘Pou... BECKY WICKS Love isn't all sparks and firecrackers. Sometimes it’s more subtle than that. BECKY WICKS This was a young man who always knew what he was going to do. You could tell this young man was goin... FRANK DURANT We're all dreaming,” Arctor said. If the last to know he's an addict is the addict, then maybe the... PHILIP K. DICK One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other
thing. Being demanded a reason: b... WILLIAM HAZLITT Have you ever wondered why Cinderella's stepmother was bitter and greedy? Have you ever wondered why... MARYALLE TAN I discovered a rare man. In days of confused identities, this man knew who he was. Nothing could det... JIMMY ALLEN I remember him as a very special young man. He was very positive and he was a young man who was a jo... EVELYN FOX In some parallel universe, there was a Gansey who could tell Blue that he found the ten inches of he... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was a very compassionate and thoughtful man who left his mark on this area, JEFF STONE He reminds me of the man who murdered both his parents, and then when sentence was about to be prono... ABRAHAM LINCOLN After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for hi... J.R.R. TOLKIEN That was Johnny Cash. He was a complete person. He acknowledged the darker side of his mind. He didn... JOAQUIN PHOENIX He was a very experienced man, and for some inexplicable reason, he walked out in front of one of th... JOHN HURT He was a catcher who couldn't hit. He was best known for his arm. PAUL SNYDER That was his best outing. He threw four pitches for strikes and he pounded the strike zone. JIM TRACY The cutter, at times, was very nice. This was a typical Spring Training game where the pitcher was b... BENGIE MOLINA He seemed fine, just regular old John. He said college was good and that he was doing well in his cl... DENNIS WEAVER It was decided he needed three to four weeks to stop it becoming a full-blown fracture. SHANE JABAAR Jesus Christ could die instead of man because He was sinless. As a man without sin, He was not under... HENRY HON Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ... VICTORIA SCHWAB He was just an extraordinary guy who was as passionate about his family as he was about newspapers. KIRK DAVIS It was started because we needed to service kids who were having trouble making it in a regular clas... BILL LUTZ With his head thrust forward like a ram, Baryba pushed his way through to the front. For some reason... YEVGENY ZAMYATIN [Ruebhausen] was a belt and suspenders person he was a lawyer who thought through all his options bu... DAVID ROBINSON Like many excellent runners, Sadat had his dreams of becoming a sprinter, but soon learned he needed... CLARENCE WILLIAMS He loved teaching, whether it was football or academically. He was always laughing and telling jokes... STEVE DALE For some reason, I knew he was going to throw it. AJAY CALVIN If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by... LEO TOLSTOY He was not a stupid man. He was managed by reasonably clever people who understood his value. But he... DESMOND MORTON Last year, Robert was still more of a pass catcher. He's got a little more pop to him this year. He'... MARCUS WASHINGTON He was becoming unstuck, he was sure of that - his bones were no longer wrapped in flesh but in clou... TOM ROBBINS Are you all right, Robin?' 'Yes, I promise I am.' She hesitated, then said, almost defian... ROBERT GALBRAITH I think (his father) was his reason for going after the music. When he was younger, he was going aft... HENRY TOWNSEND He was such a vivid character. And it was a character he made up - this slightly ghoulish, heavy-set... RICHARD SCHICKEL
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JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH One can relish the varied idiocy of human action during a panic to the full, for, while it is a time... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Talk of revolution is one of avoiding reality. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Production only fills a void that it has itself created JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving there is no need to do so, almost ever... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homele... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH What is called a high standard of living consists, in considerable measure, in arrangements for avoi... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Few people at the beginning of the nineteenth century needed an adman to tell them what they wanted. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself trying to get agreement and then the people who di... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH People of privilege will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material p... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH If there must be madness, something may be said for having it on a heroic scale JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH A person buying ordinary products in a supermarket is in touch with his deepest emotions. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Under capitalism, man exploits man; while under socialism just the reverse is true. JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH There's something about the Foreign Service that takes the guts out of people. EVAN G. GALBRAITH The shortcomings of economics are not original error but uncorrected obsolescence. The obsolescence ... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who ass... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH In many ways the effect of the crash on embezzlement was more significant than on suicide. To the ec... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Inflation does not lubricate trade but by rescuing traders from their errors of optimism or stupidit... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH Among all the world's races ... Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not a conseq... JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. ROBERT BENCHLEY In the next couple of years, part of every film's process is going to be to adjust the images. A... ROBERT ZEMECKIS A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins... ROBERT FROST Robots may cut down on infection and mean a consultant can see more patients, but wouldn't you r... ROBERT WINSTON I was always handsome under all the fat. ROBERT ILER In California in the early Spring, There are pale yellow mornings, when the mist burns slowly into d... ROBERT HASS Just like any business is a living, breathing thing, an entrepreneur has to be able to adapt over ti... ROBERT HERJAVEC Most businesses think that product is the most important thing, but without great leadership, missio... ROBERT KIYOSAKI It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to ... ROBERT POZEN The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations th... ROBERT SMITHSON I love being funny! I started in the theater when I was 9 and, believe it or not, always played the ... ROBERT KNEPPER Laziness is a secret ingredient that goes into failure. But it's only kept a secret from the per... ROBERT HALF In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the condit... ROBERT KENNEDY I come from a family that has always emphasized and enjoyed sports - golf, tennis, football, basebal... ROBERT KENNEDY Where aspirations outstrip opportunities, law-abiding society becomes the victim. Attitudes of conte... ROBERT KENNEDY Even as my father grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, signs told him: 'No Irish Need Apply.' ROBERT KENNEDY I have told friends and supporters who are urging me to run that I would not oppose President Johnso... ROBERT KENNEDY It is one thing to open the schools to all children regardless of race. It is another to train the t... ROBERT KENNEDY Ultimately, Communism must be defeated by progressive political programs which wipe out the poverty,... ROBERT KENNEDY