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Jed S. Rakoff
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In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I watched him even then as he fell, his face undefeated, his eyes still proud NEIL GAIMAN Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE 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 judges are given flexibility to consider the full merits of each case, they are likely to impos... MARC MAUER A person should neither serious nor curious, to the thing which will not profitable for him/her life... RASHID JORVEE Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y... GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A Hazel é diferente. Ela caminha com leveza, velhote. Caminha com leveza sobre a Terra. A Hazel sab... JOHN GREEN If the defendant wants to rerun the argument he should be entitled to go to court, in which case the... LORD FALCONER He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself LOIS LOWRY She was intimidating and all I could do was sit back on the couch as she paced back and forth, slowl... IN THE MAKING She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY 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 deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi... AULIQ ICE in these shitty plastic days ... GILLIAN FLYNN A knowledge of Persian will aid a traveler in these countries [Turkmenistan]; but the Toorkey [Turki... A MAJOR IN THE BRITISH ARMY We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ... HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part. ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN Neither the United States nor any other party can impose a solution, BOB DOLE 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 The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ... C. JOYBELL C. I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY And they say She's in the class A Team Stuck in her daydream Been that way since eigh... ED SHEERAN Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY I got the chance to argue my first case in Supreme Court, a criminal case arising in Alabama that in... CONSTANCE BAKER MOTLEY Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL 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 In the beginning, there was nothing and from nothing came our species then behold the dawn of music.... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON The worth of this case is shown by the results of the plea negotiations in that neither defendant is... HENRY MAZUREK What matters is what we do with the life we have. CARRIE RYAN I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are. MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles HELEN SCHUCMAN There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ... NICHOLAS SPARKS the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't. CHARLES BUKOWSKI An emotionally locked person refuses to let go of their sad memories and live in the now. KILROY J. OLDSTER We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives. THICH NHAT HANH The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Love, what you DO,
Respect, who DOES for you,
Appreciate, who DOES for others,
Salute, who DOES for ... PRITISH PATTANAIK I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Status quos are made to be broken. RAY A. DAVIS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY This is, to me, the loveliest and saddest landscape in the world. It is the same as that on the prec... ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Let the wind blow, lad Let fall the deep snow, Let the stars fall, lad we'll answer ... JENNIFER A. NIELSEN The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The worst things in life come free to us ED SHEERAN Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harri... GARY WEISS I have to get out. VERONICA ROTH I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself. MANDY HALE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b... LYDIA MILLET There is no such thing as objectivity. We are all just interpreting signals from the universe and tr... BONES THE DOCTOR IN THE PHOTO He had what he called just a small ration of tools: A painted book. A handful of pencils.<... MARKUS ZUSAK Voter apathy is a civic abdication. CHARLES M. BLOW No, of course not. But surely you know your affair couldn't go on forever." "Forever has no mea... ELLEN HOPKINS A perfectly decent fellow may be driven by circumstances to commit a crime and if he's found out he'... W.SOMERSET MAUGHAM Let me repeat. I have not read all the work of this present generation of writing. I have not had ti... WILLIAM FAULKNER I hate saying corny things like "traveling incognito." But when I'm with somebody that's corny, I al... J.D. SALINGER “Love is not to be discovered but felt.It is brewing in air across universe.One needs only open ey... ANUJ SOMANY I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live. THICH NHAT HANH You can't go back to how things were. How you thought they were. All you really have is...now. JAY ASHER Life is a journey, not a destination. RALPH WALDO EMERSON It is so torturous to be in the crowd not only because the voice there is usually loud, but also oft... ANUJ SOMANY When you grow up there are things that you would love to do make your father proud is one and have f... GARY F EVANS...
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TRUETT CATHY I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brou... S. TRUETT CATHY I have always encouraged my restaurant operators and team members to give back to the local communit... S. TRUETT CATHY I had to create some good work habits and attitude. S. TRUETT CATHY Why would I retire from something I enjoy doing? I can hardly wait to get here. S. TRUETT CATHY If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business. S. TRUETT CATHY I struggled to get through high school. I didn't get to go to college. But it made me realize yo... S. TRUETT CATHY I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can... S. TRUETT CATHY It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, ... S. TRUETT CATHY I was not so committed to financial success that I was willing to abandon my principles and prioriti... S. TRUETT CATHY The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and ... S. TRUETT CATHY Putting people before profits is how we've tried to operate from the beginning. S. TRUETT CATHY I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order. S. TRUETT CATHY You don't have to be a Christian to work at Chick-fil-A, but we ask you to base your business on... S. TRUETT CATHY Why did the chicken cross the road? To prove to the possum that it could be done. S. TRUETT CATHY Our decision to close on Sunday was our way of honoring God and of directing our attention to things... S. TRUETT CATHY In the Great Depression, you bought something if you had the cash to buy it. S. TRUETT CATHY We live in a changing world, but we need to be reminded that the important things have not changed, ... S. TRUETT CATHY Nearly every moment of every day, we have the opportunity to give something to someone else - our ti... S. TRUETT CATHY Chick-fil-A is what it is today because of its people, purpose and product. S. TRUETT CATHY I am one of maybe three people in the world who knows anything about Robert W. Chambers. S. T. JOSHI You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years. S. T. JOSHI My father insisted that I and my sisters not be indoctrinated into any religion at any age. S. T. JOSHI I've seen articles suggesting that Wal-Mart buys at prices lower than our competitors', and ... S. ROBSON WALTON I was small but slow as a college tackle. S. ROBSON WALTON I worked in Dad's stores, moving boxes - I remember quite well one stockroom that was upstairs -... S. ROBSON WALTON I learned from my dad that change and experimentation are constants and important. You have to keep ... S. ROBSON WALTON