Lionel Shriver
Related ARUNDHATI ROY DEYTH BANGER GERMANY KENT LIONEL SHRIVER A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA The words I'm singing now
Mean nothing more than meow to an animal THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS GERMANY KENT What will make you a star is in you SOTONYE ANGA People live for eating,but
I eat for survive OM BENIWAL Do not be afraid of failure, it is part of the learning process SOTONYE ANGA (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON GERMANY KENT LIONEL SHRIVER In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA TANA FRENCH Life's irony;The medical practitioner can never say the law profession is invalid,because by the tim... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) E.M. FORSTER This might be a bigger problem than it seems, given that China hasn't been upfront with the seriousn... JAY WONG It seems apparent at this juncture that the medical profession is unwilling to play the role as gate... JASON GRATL DEYTH BANGER MARILYN MANSON DEBASISH MRIDHA WENDELL BERRY CHARLES BUKOWSKI That might be idealistic. It might be naive. But I certainly hope it is the case that these self-des... WALDO JAQUITH HANNAH KENT Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own w... MOHAMMED ALI BAPIR FRANK DEFORD [Though a story about how terrorists manage to slip into the U.S. and carry out assaults might be th... DAVID GERBER Would that thy love, beloved, had less trust in me, that it might be more anxious! HéLOïSE D'ARGENTEUIL CAMILLE PAGLIA DEBASISH MRIDHA It just seems a little brazen that that's put on stones. It seems like it might be connected to poli... JEFF MARTELL There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL I like the word 'fuck'. The word means what it means, but it also means whatever you need it to mean... LISA GLATT The medical profession has proved to be a source of stable income for nurses. I think people are mov... GARY GREENSWEIG CHRISTINA ENGELA By some miracle, Charlotte's polite smile never wavered. It was a proud moment for her. After all, i... OLIVIA PARKER DEBASISH MRIDHA ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPERY MARGARET HEFFERNAN JEFFREY TATE GERMANY KENT The problem is that she doesn't have any experience in specific energy- related topics, so it might ... TOMAS FLORES GERMANY KENT The company is taking the actions required for long-term profitability but whenever a company has to... KARTIK MEHTA Farming is the oldest profession on earth SOTONYE ANGA ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'. UFUOMA APOKI People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to... GARY F EVANS... WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man. MARAT SAFIN CHRISTINA ENGELA PAULA HAWKINS GERMANY KENT FRAN LEBOWITZ FRAN LEBOWITZ Investors can be assured that the company is financially sound and focused on improving our longer-t... BOB ROSSITER Lauren brings a ton of experience to the field. She seems to be mentally tougher than she was last y... KRYSTLE PETTY RODDY DOYLE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS The large skew indicates that the market is bracing for short-term volatility in Harley Davidson ahe... FREDERIC RUFFY These findings suggest that after someone has been drinking, he or she might be more likely to blurt... BRUCE BARTHOLOW The result seems to be more creditable to the trustworthiness of a democratic judgment than might ha... FRANCIS GALTON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE STEVEN MAGEE STEVEN MAGEE GUSTAVE FLAUBERT DEYTH BANGER A man drank and became drunk, next he said, now i am delivered from my enemies and then walked into ... SOTONYE ANGA DEBASISH MRIDHA DEYTH BANGER FRAN LEBOWITZ PETER L. BERGER LAILAH GIFTY AKITA CRAIG GROESCHEL No matter how bad a person she might have been, no matter what kind of business she might have been ... DAVID LOPEZ ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH C. JOYBELL C. I understand that it might be upsetting to lose the election by a handful of votes, but it seems imp... VITTORIO FELTRI T. S. ELIOT HENRY JAMES ELIE WIESEL CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE C. JOYBELL C. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE KATE CHOPIN What sexual preference do you hope she has?” “Happiness.” Isnt that cool? FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK He was sulking. It was natural. If it had been a daughter or son, the parent would have rushed to fi... ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA You must remember, though, that most normal people have never seen an orogene, let alone had to do b... N.K. JEMISIN ANNA GODBERSEN DEAN KOONTZ It might be difficult or impossible to reopen some of these medical centers. JOE CAPPIELLO SUSAN ORLEAN I am in total shock and disbelief. She is a class act. She should be applauded for all the great thi... CINDY STEIN JAMES JONES
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The two men had a conversation. Brief, cryptic, to the point. As though they had exchanged numbers a... 
I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix. 
Reach out and help others. If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. Be a vessel, be the c... 
He wasn't mad, he was sad. 
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through yo... 
Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... 
They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are eas... 
I had forgotten that God, or the world, or whatever carves the rules in stone, doesn't give you time... 
She must be assured that it is not a criminal offense to love at first sight. 
Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea... 
I never said to be like me, I say be yourself and make a difference. 
To be a success, you have to break down your wall of fear that you built around you to protect yours... 
How to be a Poet (to remind myself)
if it doesn't come bursting out of you
You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same roo... 
... proud though I may be of my profession, it never occurred to me that it was meant to be a workin... 
American policy seems to be wed to a perpetual state of war. Why? History shows that the world will ... 
If you think like a leader, act like a leader, inspire like a leader then you are a leader. 
The universe is so vast, so immense, we can never expect to explore it all. It is in effect, not so ... 
To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. 
The medical profession is - and knows itself to be - endemically conservative and conformist. 
I had a sense of debt to the medical profession and to surgery particularly. I would not be as ambie... 
The earth is an arena of champions. We are all champions. We all did overcome millions of potential ... 
I'll be damned if I am not getting tired of this. It seems to be the profession of a President simpl... 
All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... 
There can be no greater agony, nothing can be more painful than the not knowing, which will never en... 
I must take issue with the term 'a mere child,' for it has been my invariable experience that the co... 
I must take issue with the term “a mere child,” for it has been my invariable experience that th... 
No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a pa... 
If she do bid me pack, I'll give her thanks
It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments... 
And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passio... 
If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... 
It has been true in Western societies and it seems to be true elsewhere that you do not find democra... 
It is better to experience moment of discomfort in the achievement of your dreams than to be comfort... 
Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea... 
There is this one thing that I never ever want to know, and that is knowing how to give up on a true... 
I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... 
How wild it was, to let it be. 
You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. 
I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We m... 
It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik... 
When people begin to define the things that they believe in, based upon the exclusion of all the thi... 
To be, or not to be, that is the question. 
Spring days, and summer days, and all sorts of days that would be her own. She breathed a quick pray... 
Though her emotions had not deviated from a jittery frailty she knew that in her own room she could ... 
How obvious can it be? ... The purpose of makeup is to defy the degradations of time, and time is ju... 
Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and l... 
The little bit you and me might change the world," Malloy smiled, "it wouldnt show up until a hundre... 
I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co... 
We have nothing to offer
you.. say the cows of
their gravy.. but our
blood, sweat, and tears.
(cows'... 
I think that public service is tough on a family - no ifs, ands, buts about it. I have my own person... 
Those who work for plant rights
don't parse parsley
nor bomb poppies
nor purchase antipeople papers... 
CLOVER VEIL
A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails. 
My father never was and isn't a mean man. You know, he never was ruthless. And he succeeded in l... 
I think everybody has tragedy in their life. Everybody has hurdles in their life. Everybody has toug... 
There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game. 
In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision. 
One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth. 
A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball. 
You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.