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Dennis Collins

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REBECCA GOLDSTEIN To be honest with you, all of this stuff we have been hearing in the council chamber the last two we...
CHRIS BELL Quite a few people have done it. There have been just general guests, as well as celebrities request...
BRYAN EDWARDS ... and if this is my last hour with you, I'm not going to waste another second of it.” — Chase ...
MOLLY MCADAMS How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER you weren't mine to begin with.
IAIN S. THOMAS If you can get an hour of quietness a day, it will be beneficial to your wellbeing. Noise can be a s...
ANGELA KING Every girl’s journey is a book of unknowns Sometimes they destroys this society Sometimes they rec...
HARIKRISHNA PANIGRAHI Just an hour with you, and I understand why we had to meet.
JOAN ARMATRADING They're really into it, laughing and teasing each other, and I am looking at Pam and thinking once a...
JAMES HOWE Quite bluntly, to an auto worker at General Motors or an airline worker facing demands for concessio...
GARY CHAISON [This is] somebody that knows Dennis the person, and knows he would never intentionally steal someth...
DARREN PRINCE We're not sure if this is an anomaly. We need to know if we can replicate this data so we can unders...
JACK MILLER We understand that hearing us say this is important to you. However, we want you to know how difficu...
CHARLES MOOSE I’m now requesting you refrain from calling me this early in the morning, before I’ve had a chan...
RICHARD FINNEY I've only noticed a hearing difference if I've been listening to loud music for an hour or more.
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LISA KLEYPAS I understand that a court hearing for this case is scheduled for November 15, but I don't know if th...
GHADA JAMSHEER Everyone got a follower, how good or bad is all this shit, it's another topic… JUst leave it for l...
DEYTH BANGER I would have preferred to have finished this afternoon and have half an hour extra in bed in the mor...
MIGUEL ANGEL JIMENEZ You have to understand, for a torture victim, this is an independent confirmation, ... And I would c...
MAHER ARAR In this case we don't have to allege anything. ... The pulp mill already admitted violating (its) pe...
PATTY CLARY An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your...
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SARAH DESSEN I, the soul called Wanderer, love you, human Ian. And that will never change, no matter what I might...
STEPHENIE MEYER Everybody sing like it's the last song you will ever sing
Tell me, tell me, do you feel the pre...
HAYLEY WILLIAMS COMPLETELY.
Utterly.
Frozen.
My eyes drop to the table in front of me when she fin...
COLLEEN HOOVER You want to know my sweet?" I ask her.

She nods.

I kiss her on the forehead. "...
COLLEEN HOOVER Remy: Did you really believe, that first day, that we were meant to be together?

Dexter: ...
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F. SCOTT FITZGERALD This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ...
OSHO The saying "Give us this day our daily bread." simply means every day my beliefs must cater for my n...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w...
KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE The saying,give us this day our daily bread means,seek today's good for today only,any excess means ...
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SARAH DESSEN And for one second, it was like I could feel the timing clicking together, finally pieces falling in...
SARAH DESSEN Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction
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DEYTH BANGER Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. if anything, ...
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PATRICIA HIGHSMITH God is fond of you. If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it. If He had a refrigerator, your pi...
MAX LUCADO I will love myself despite the ease with which I lean toward the opposite.
SHANE L. KOYCZAN If you are confirmed, you will essentially disappear from public view. This hearing will, in some wa...
GRETA GARBO It's unquestionable that these therapies are beneficial to patients. This is just really something t...
ANDREA FOULKES This relationship is mutually beneficial.
ALEX ALLEN We want to encourage anyone hearing this today that still has information to call the State Police t...
ERIC BEHRMAN A DLL is canned functionality, so if you include a vulnerable DLL in an application, that applicatio...
MICHAEL SUTTON We felt like this would be very beneficial to him to get into real game-type of shape.
ERNIE GRUNFELD Let's put it bluntly. If rail would be profitable, private companies would be doing it already.
LAURA BULLOCK One can quite understand vegetarianism. One can quite understand meat-eating. But it is difficult to...
B. R. AMBEDKAR It would be a great achievement. Maybe for the Olympics this will be the last one.
HANNU MANNINEN It's just taken us this long to come to an agreement that is mutually beneficial. We look forward to...
CHARLIE MILLER It would be a great momentum factor, especially if it was in the last game going into the tournament...
KAMI ROEDER If this had been last year, we would be starting a week later.
DAVE WALKER We have something very valuable, for which we have not yet found an application in this life
SUNDAY ADELAJA We saw Pang's application and it seemed she would be a very good fit for this family.
BRENDA AGNELLO The hearing will go through the lunch hour and through the dinner hour if necessary and the judge ge...
GEORGE CHANDLER You know this girl.
Her hair is neither long nor short nor light nor dark. She parts it precise...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN To be quite honest, just being here the last three years, to host hasn't ever been a beneficial thin...
TIFFANY MILLER We have no reason to believe it won't be this year. It would take no time to do. We've had plenty of...
ALLISON DOBSON There is an apparent need to save the earth and the means God chose to do this is not by sending POW...
SUNDAY ADELAJA I have decided to set the tone of this hearing, and this is a closed hearing. Even if the board and ...
HOWARD MOORE If we can do some of the things we've done the last few games, but maybe with more consistency, we c...
BRAD RANDALL If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord b...
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Well, we'll know who the best team in the region is after this week. Last year we won (this tourname...
FRANK CHEEK Thousands of individuals unknowingly contribute to the creation of our lives. Over the years, these ...
KRISTIN S. KAUFMAN Friends tell each other what nobody else is willing to tell you.
NIKKI SIXX I've been doing this a long time. You never know, but, if I were a betting person, I would say this ...
CAROL TRUSSELL We would be interested in bidding if Collins & Aikman in the U.S. were to come up for sale,
WILBUR ROSS Last year opening day was quite an experience. This year I was a lot more relaxed.
BRANDON MCARTHUR This is a three-hour feast of an event.
MARC SHMUGER The first half-hour and the last hour of the day are simply down times. If we can cut out an hour fr...
MARSHA KOET This is nothing like (Hurricane) Dennis and it's heading right our way.
BOB LAY We anticipate that this is the beginning of an ongoing and growing collaboration which represents st...
JEFF STEWART We just put too much on him, and I'm going to take full responsibility for this loss. This one is on...
DENNIS DUNN the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth
JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Ideally, we would prefer to remain at this location if we can work out a mutually beneficial plan wi...
HEATHER DANENHOWER The last time we had something quite this bad, you got to go back to about 1956, when we had 18.55 i...
ALAN MOLLER If I were American I would never have voted for Reagan, but as a Pole, I liked the tough position of...
ADAM MICHNIK This is a complicated, long lasting and far reaching issue. If this application is not defeated, it ...
JACK GARDNER Through this program, we get an opportunity to see for ourselves if this particular instrument makes...
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SUZANNE COLLINS Tick, tock.
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"I just want to spend every...
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SUZANNE COLLINS You know, you could live a thousand lifetimes and not deserve him.
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish I could freeze this moment, right here, right now and live in it forever.
SUZANNE COLLINS Remember, we're madly in love, so it's all right to kiss me anytime you feel like it.
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SUZANNE COLLINS I knew you'd kiss me."
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SUZANNE COLLINS Fire beats roses again.
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SUZANNE COLLINS You're alive," I whisper, pressing my palms against my cheeks, feeling the smile that's so wide it m...
SUZANNE COLLINS I just...I just miss him. And I hate being so alone.
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SUZANNE COLLINS I had to do that. At least once.
SUZANNE COLLINS No problem," Gale replies. "I wake up ten times a night anyway."
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SUZANNE COLLINS Stay with me.

Always.
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SUZANNE COLLINS I know what blood poisoning is, Katniss," says Peeta. "Even if my mother isn't a healer."
I'm j...
SUZANNE COLLINS No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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SUZANNE COLLINS What about Gale?"
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SUZANNE COLLINS I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
SUZANNE COLLINS They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
SUZANNE COLLINS Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
SUZANNE COLLINS I drag myself out of nightmares each morning and find there's no relief in waking.
SUZANNE COLLINS Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
SUZANNE COLLINS Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
SUZANNE COLLINS Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
SUZANNE COLLINS I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
SUZANNE COLLINS There are much worse games to play.
SUZANNE COLLINS Some walks you have to take alone.
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SUZANNE COLLINS I must have loved you a lot.
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SUZANNE COLLINS You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
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SUZANNE COLLINS It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
SUZANNE COLLINS The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
SUZANNE COLLINS For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
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SUZANNE COLLINS Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the ...
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SUZANNE COLLINS I'm not prepared for Rue's family. Her parents, whose faces are still fresh with sorrow. Her fiver y...
SUZANNE COLLINS Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
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SUZANNE COLLINS Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
SUZANNE COLLINS It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
SUZANNE COLLINS While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
SUZANNE COLLINS The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
SUZANNE COLLINS Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
SUZANNE COLLINS If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, that I do know...Katniss will pick whoever she thinks she can't survive without.
SUZANNE COLLINS Is that why you hate me?" I ask.
"Partly," She admits. "Jealousy is certainly involved. I also...
SUZANNE COLLINS Oh, my dear Miss Everdeen. I thought we had an agreement not to lie to each other.
SUZANNE COLLINS Katniss....he's still trying to keep you alive.
SUZANNE COLLINS I roll my eyes. "So when did I become so special? When they carted me off to the Capitol?"
"No,...
SUZANNE COLLINS