The trouble with lies was that once started, the fiction had to be continued, and it was hard always to be remembering details that you had made up upon the spur of the moment.
Elizabeth Aston
Related The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... ARUNDHATI ROY Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... GERMANY KENT You know that we've got a few problems we need to talk through before we get married." "I... SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS Food Allergies Are Not Due to Food, Rather Are Due to the Constant Contamination of That Food That Y... THEHEALTHFOODGURU Avoid the temptation to force a moment so you won’t miss the one with your name on it. GINA GREENLEE I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... TANA FRENCH The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER The cost of oblivius daydreaming was always this moment of return, the realigment with what had been... IAN MCEWAN The Imperial Senate, ever conscious of the weight of public opinion resting on the tip of the pencil... CHRISTINA ENGELA How to change the world: • spread positivity • bring people up instead of dragging the... GERMANY KENT I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m... AMBER SMITH Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... GERMANY KENT The trouble with thinking was that, once you started, you went on doing it. TERRY PRATCHETT What if you are wrong? What if the gods sent you, and indeed the rest of us, not because we were nev... MARIE LU Be the best of you. Don’t do what society, your surroundings, or circumstances expect you to do. D... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Personally, I thought Curly was the greatest because he was a natural comedian who had no formal tra... LARRY FINE Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA It's a a damn good day to be alive. MICHAEL CLIFFORD The best you can be
at any given moment
is yourself. ELIZABETH ALRAUNE I'm not a broken down car, that you can just push on down the street.. I'm a girl that's in love wit... AUDRA BUKAUSKAS How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL To serve the world, serve yourself first by becoming happy and the best person that you can be. DEBASISH MRIDHA Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Remembering something from the past? you are creating it right now as evidence for who you are now. FREDERICK DODSON That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM SACRIFICE OR SELFISHNESS -THE CRUCIAL CHOICE HENNA SOHAIL It was a little hard when I had injuries. It was hard to come back because you knew what you were on... JOYA CANFIELD We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,... GEORGE SANTAYANA We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past,... GEORGE SANTAYANA Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... DEYTH BANGER I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations... C. JOYBELL C. Put your mind to it and you will do it. This is how the impossible become possible SOTONYE ANGA To be the best is a choice you make on your own SOTONYE ANGA And the day came out... the mask was removed... and who was behind it? ... No Face... a pe... DEYTH BANGER He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL It was really hard once that moment came up. IRMA NORTON Darkness is nothing but an opportunity to spread light JACKIE VIRAMONTEZ Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th... ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON By the time we've made it, we've had it. MALCOLM FORBES 'This is Spinal Tap' was a film we felt really had to be done like that. It wouldn't hav... CHRISTOPHER GUEST The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS Who is most likely to bother about your happiness? You, yourself. So like yourself, love yourself, c... EVERSKEPTIC Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend. KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th... ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ... ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker. ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes. ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment. ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.' ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha... ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm an affectionate person. ZARA PHILLIPS People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me... ZARA PHILLIPS Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au... ZARA PHILLIPS Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about. ZARA PHILLIPS My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media. ZARA PHILLIPS I love the sport and being competitive. ZARA PHILLIPS The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some ... ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken. ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows. ZARA PHILLIPS My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha... ZARA PHILLIPS In our sport you're very lucky to find a horse of a lifetime and I found mine relatively early. ... ZARA PHILLIPS I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don... ZARA PHILLIPS I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra... ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one. ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs. KING JAMES I My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them... MARIE ANTOINETTE I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina... WALLIS SIMPSON PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea... WALLIS SIMPSON I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w... WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave. WALLIS SIMPSON I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me. WALLIS SIMPSON A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe... WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain. WALLIS SIMPSON You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance. WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers. WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat. WALLIS SIMPSON
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