The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either. JAIME CONTRERAS Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH his hands and bolted down his pitiful supper. The moment he had finished, Aunt Petunia whisked away ... J.K. ROWLING Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good. SARAH J. MAAS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS We have 'Wild Bill', with kiss marks all over his face and his tongue hanging out. And we have 'Trad... SUE CARTER He's always pushing the guy forward whenever he finished off the run. A guy looked like he had him w... MARTY REDMOND Think of a new day and think of a new purpose. Think of a new reason out of the reasons of yesterday... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Henry had a great day. I'm glad he had a good day, especially after his birthday. MARK PRIOR Anything that focuses media and public attention on Iraq war casualties day after day — particular... CHARLIE COOK The life of a good man is a continual warfare with his passions. SAMUEL RICHARDSON A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI Prudence was waiting for us when we arrived, and I saw her visibly wince as I pulled the Fiesta into... M.L. BRENNAN There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books. ANUJ SOMANY Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th... APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name can open ways for your great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS He described today as a good day and said he had a good time visiting with his family. ERIC MESSICK Around 5th and 6th grade I thought Dean Martin was the coolest guy in the world; he was a great sing... PETER GALLAGHER Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a serva... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm known up there as the guy from Frog Jump. And it's a good thing. STEPHEN FINCHER History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ... JOHN MUIR We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy. BRADLEY WHITFORD You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stout... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning;
Good liquor, I... OLIVER GOLDSMITH Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning; Good liquor, I stout... OLIVER GOLDSMITH What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It seems that I have been held in some dreaming state A tourist in the waking world world, neve... FLORENCE + THE MACHINE Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA We had a game the other night against Greenville and Kevin, being the great guy that he was, was out... SCOTT WILLIAMS Walking through the streets of New Haven (Conn.) with William Sloane Coffin Jr. is like being in a m... JESSICA MITFORD Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?' 'You're bitching about ... LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe... SHARIF MOHAMED She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN It gets so boring at home. After all, how many reruns of Abbott and Costello movies can a guy watch ... BUD ABBOTT Ants can carry twenty times their own body weight, which is useful information if you're moving out ... RON DARIAN And I had an old-fashioned idea that dividends were a good thing. JAMES MACARTHUR He's a good kid and he's had his share of issues over the years. JAMES PRESCOTT No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. He and his are not neglected by the... SOCRATES Roald Dahl pioneered a new kind of literature for youngsters, one that dispensed with cant and solem... PAUL DI FILIPPO Kurtis gives us a good presence over at first base. His size is a huge asset for a first baseman and... JEFF ISOM I've had my fill of Jinn for the day. And not the good gin that my dad has locked in his liquor cabi... SAMANTHA YOUNG In a guy like Galloway, it gives you a good senior point guard to have his hands on the ball at the ... SKIP PROSSER I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS He is a genuine, good guy, one of the best teammates that you can have. He lights up a clubhouse wit... KEVIN MILLAR Harry had worked his way through the American Dream and come to the conclusion that is was composed ... COLUM MCCANN Cal Ripken is steady, he focuses on his job, and he's a good guy. BRADLEY WHITFORD Just to get everybody fired up for the season. It's a lot of fun. It gives guys something to do and ... LANCE COBBLE I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH He was as good with the puck and as hard on the puck as he is now, relative to the skill level. He w... MIKE BABCOCK As Cassian drew twin Illyrian blades, the sight of them like home, and said to Eris with lethal calm... SARAH J. MAAS Keegan always worked hard on the field, treated me and his other teammates with respect. He's a good... MICHAEL COLUCCI We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Tom Rumph had a good day in all the jumps and Nate Culver in his 1600 and 800 were both good perform... CHARLIE HUGHES We followed his lead. He was a solid leader and a good guy. He gets two checks in the good guy colum... ALAN BOMSTEIN Evil, unlike good, is constantly at war with those most like itself, and ambition is its spur. JOHN CONNOLLY To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend... PROVERB To attract good fortune, spend a new penny on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend... CHINESE PROVERB
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FERDINAND MOUNT For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in... FERDINAND MOUNT One of the unsung freedoms that go with a free press is the freedom not to read it. FERDINAND MOUNT Let us not be so naive as to think that revolution is just a matter of social or economic discontent... FERDINAND MARCOS I am not afraid to go to jail. FERDINAND MARCOS The challenge to Asia is to discard the dry, meatless bone of mysticism and fatalism. FERDINAND MARCOS To write our constitution is for the past, the present, and the future to come together all at once ... FERDINAND MARCOS Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino w... FERDINAND MARCOS Little boys have amazing minds. FERDINAND MARCOS The permissiveness of society must be balanced with authoritativeness. FERDINAND MARCOS What we ask of the developed countries is to let the Third World find a third way. FERDINAND MARCOS The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not... FERDINAND MARCOS Freedom is not just declared; it is exercised. FERDINAND MARCOS I do not care how brave a president is; I do not care how many medals he may wear. I do not care how... FERDINAND MARCOS Nobody is impervious to misfortune. FERDINAND MARCOS I often wonder what I will be remembered in history for. Scholar? Military hero? Builder? FERDINAND MARCOS The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate pu... FERDINAND MARCOS I have been called brave in my time, but brave as I may have been against foreign invaders, I have n... FERDINAND MARCOS Whatever be the challenges, whatever be the obstacles before us, I say to you as I say to everybody ... FERDINAND MARCOS There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them... FERDINAND MARCOS Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone... FERDINAND MARCOS I'll take my destiny, whatever that may be, but I'm going to fight for my dignity and my hon... FERDINAND MARCOS Once a champion, always a champion. FERDINAND MARCOS A battle won is a battle which we will not acknowledge to be lost. FERDINAND FOCH No study is possible on the battlefield. FERDINAND FOCH The power to command has never meant the power to remain mysterious. FERDINAND FOCH In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective. FERDINAND FOCH It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. FERDINAND FOCH My center is giving way, my right is in retreat; situation excellent. I shall attack. FERDINAND FOCH A human society obeys the dictates of reason and is guided and governed by a respect for justice. FERDINAND BUISSON We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warf... FERDINAND BUISSON From the day war conquered the skies, nothing could check its progress. FERDINAND BUISSON My centre is giving way, my right is in retreat, situation excellent. I attack. FERDINAND FOCH The Church says that the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on t... FERDINAND MAGELLAN "The Church says that the Earth is flat, but I know that it is round. For I have seen the shadow on ... FERDINAND MAGELLAN Fiat justitia et pereat mundus. Let justice be done, though the world perish. FERDINAND I The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the mo... FERDINAND MAGELLAN The will to conquer is the first condition of victory. FERDINAND FOCH None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. FERDINAND FOCH These statements about torture, about alleged misuse of power and things like that, insulted the Fil... FERDINAND MARCOS My friends in the opposition have forgotten that the constitution of the Philippines was amended in ... FERDINAND MARCOS I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself. FERDINAND PORSCHE Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little lo... FERDINAND MARCOS Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any r... FERDINAND PORSCHE My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignit... FERDINAND MARCOS History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then writ... FERDINAND MARCOS We are also further than ever from equality of opportunity. FERDINAND MOUNT I came into the world at the same time as the auto, if you will. FERDINAND PORSCHE The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms conson... FERDINAND MARCOS