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Women are natural guerrillas. Scheming, we nestle into the enemy's bed, avoiding open warfare, watching the options, playing the odds.


Sally Kempton

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THOMAS HARRIS We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
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SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
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KELLY JONES Before you dive in head first, make sure the water is not shallow.
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MEREDITH WILD Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won’t let you regret it.
MEREDITH WILD You either serve at the foot of a king or he serves at your foot. There is one thing that can be cou...
BOBBY W. MILLER So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn'...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER Well, I'm more lopsided than a one legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his carful stalk...
ERIN HUNTER No milk. It is black coffee, pure but strong, that fortifies against the powers of darkness with whi...
ROBERT AICKMAN I thought climbing the Devil's Thumb would fix all that was wrong with my life. In the end, of cours...
JON KRAKAUER Beauty is the light within. Only when you see the light within yourself will others see it in you.
F. JOHNSON You’re wondering whether this is a good idea. Because you’re smart and you see right through me,...
MEREDITH WILD History has been the history of warfare.
GODFREY REGGIO You can only shove shit under your bed for so long before it starts moving around and wanting to get...
LILI ST. CROW Nature has a way of evening the odds.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS. I don't trust them but I'm learning to use them.
ADRIENNE RICH The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really sho...
SARAH BETH DURST For some, excavating the past isn’t an adventure, it’s more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an op...
RAQUEL CEPEDA We are open to whatever the options are, one of which is to host the game,
LISA LOVE The thoughts of Man build future worlds, whilst the emotions of the Fey build up this, our Natural W...
GABRIEL BRUNSDON The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN You want to be close to your child. I can understand why mothers bring their children into the bed, ...
AMY WHITE Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
ROMAN PAYNE And ShadowClan holds power over there, in the darkest part of the forest. The elders say that the co...
ERIN HUNTER I am so lonely without you, Aedan," Jane said simply.

"You truly want me?"

"Mo...
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W. PATRICK MCGINNIS I travel to know where I fit into the world, and where I don’t.
CAREW PAPRITZ We want the company to come into our county and provide the best level of service at the lowest cost...
BRIAN MOURA I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY Never trust a fox. Looks like a dog, behaves like a cat.
ERIN HUNTER So that's a fox?' Firepaw whispered. 'What an ugly muzzle!'
'You can say that again!' agreed Gr...
ERIN HUNTER Yet do not miss the moral, my good men.
For Saint Paul says that all that’s written well
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MARK TWAIN And let me tell you something else, my friend," she said in the precise enunciation of a trained nur...
JAMES JONES We (men) would rather lose an arm out a city bus window than tell you simply, “You’re not the GREG BEHRENDT Her joke of a name aside, her general unprettiness aside, she was, in terms of permanently memorable...
J.D. SALINGER It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX In life the only things that you see are things that you are projecting, and life presents you with ...
OSHO When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I'd run out of options. That's how these things usually happen, how a person ends up placing all her...
CATHERINE LACEY We must keep our options open.
ANDRIS PIEBALGS For my generation, the bomber jacket is like a replacement for the suit jacket. It's a piece tha...
THE WEEKND I'm the most boring person to talk to.
THE WEEKND Fish die when they are out of water, and people die without law and order.
THE TALMUD He who promises runs in debt.
THE TALMUD For me, bomber jackets are smart, but they are also street and have a lot of attitude.
THE WEEKND Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not ...
THE BIBLE Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
THE TALMUD Who is wise? One who learns from all.
THE TALMUD The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
THE TALMUD Starting a band is the easy part. Once you've formed the band, you have to tell a story, and tha...
THE EDGE Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD No labor, however humble, is dishonoring.
THE TALMUD If one man says to thee, Thou art a donkey, pay no heed. If two speak thus, purchase a saddle.
THE TALMUD Every blade of grass has its angel that bends over it and whispers, grow, grow.
THE TALMUD This is the punishment of a liar: he is not believed, even when he speaks the truth.
THE TALMUD Prayer carries us half way to God, fasting brings us to the door of His palace, and alms-giving proc...
THE KORAN When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
THE TALMUD This is the sum of all -- righteousness. In causing pleasure or in giving pain, in doing good or inj...
THE MAHABHARTA The sun will set without thy assistance.
THE TALMUD A person will be called to account on Judgment Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed...
THE TALMUD Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet.
THE TALMUD Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom, his wisdom endures; and everyone whose wisdom is more...
THE TALMUD Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies.
THE TALMUD The deeper the sorrow the less the tongue has it.
THE TALMUD A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
THE TALMUD To break an oral agreement which is not legally binding is morally wrong
THE TALMUD Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth - which goes with him only while goo...
THE TALMUD Join the company of lions rather than assume the lead among foxes.
THE TALMUD The doctrines of religion are resolved into carefulness; carefulness into vigorousness; vigorousnes...
THE TALMUD Greater even than the pious man is he who eats that which is the fruit of his own toil; for scriptur...
THE TALMUD Sin is sweet in the beginning, but bitter in the end.
THE TALMUD A wrathful man stirreth up strife: but he that is slow to anger appeaseth strife.
THE BIBLE Know Ye not ... that the spirit of God dwelleth within you?
THE BIBLE If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before [it hated] you.
THE BIBLE Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ru...
THE BIBLE Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better. The words of a wise ma...
THE BIBLE A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
THE BIBLE Strength and honor are her clothing: and she shall rejoice in time to come.
THE BIBLE And we are witnesses of all things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom...
THE BIBLE And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us while he talked with us by the way, a...
THE BIBLE But Jesus beheld them, and said unto them, With men this is impossible; but with God all things are ...
THE BIBLE Reprove not a scorner, lest he hate thee: rebuke a wise man, and he will love thee.
THE BIBLE A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.
THE BIBLE Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
THE BIBLE

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SALLY KIRKLAND I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what...
SALLY KIRKLAND When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamor...
SALLY KIRKLAND I'm on Governor Gray Davis' California Alliance Towards Education to bring the arts back to ...
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