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Related In this he was like most Midwesterners. Directions are very important to them. They have an innate n... BILL BRYSON The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS She is INSANE," I scream, standing in the middle of Marshall's living room. "Of course, she's i... ADDISON MOORE Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL 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 Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER There are eight girls in the house in which I am living, and practically all of them are good lookin... FRANZ SCHUBERT She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES You can look at the West Bank. Cities are like prisons. They can be closed quickly by the Israeli fo... HASSAN NASRALLAH The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS When everyone has a microphone, you can't hear anything. Choose one voice carefully and listen in. RICHIE NORTON Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI You can practically hear the celebrations at the HMOs and drug companies because of this prescriptio... JOHN EDWARDS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 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 I compare a lot of life to looking at a map through a straw. The less ability you have to see life i... REGGIE WATTS Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that th... LEMONY SNICKET Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane. STEPHEN KING You can't build a wall round a village. The sun and the wind will always find their way in... IGOR GOLDKIND She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim ... ANDREW WEIL The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony.... ... That's what's happening.... DEYTH BANGER As a movement (rather than a preference), the goal of antinatalism is that no humans should have chi... QUENTIN S. CRISP What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl... EDWARD GEORGE BULWER-LYTTON What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middl... EDWARD G. BULWER-LYTTON There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I wil... CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the... DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell... JUSTIN PYFROM I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates o... ANSEL ADAMS You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE I don't think the Europeans have too much leverage at the moment because they have no other sources ... HERMAN FRANSSEN Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA 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 You're always looking for an edge. When you take a look at the West, which is pretty competitive I t... DANNY MACIOCIA I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing ... JAMES JOYCE That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Following the war in Europe a large increase of European immigration to the United States is to be e... ARTHUR CAPPER Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I'm not optimistic. Belarus is a European problem, but there is no awareness of it in western Europe... JANUSZ REITER I'm not optimistic, ... Belarus is a European problem, but there is no awareness of it in western Eu... JANUSZ ONYSZKIEWICZ There's the 'right way' and the 'usual way'. Folks tend to confuse both. The right way i... UFUOMA APOKI When you've learned to both see and not see the resemblance, then you see the uniqueness. BARBARA KATZ ROTHMAN I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe. HEINZ FISCHER Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, i... YAHYA JAMMEH We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA It's amazing what a couple wins and a new attitude with a new coach coming in (can do). You could ju... COURTNEY MCINNIS You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING Coming over to Europe you can always put on weight really easily because you are not doing your norm... SALLY PEARSON The U.K. outside of the European Union will end up being a mid-sized economy, somewhere in the middl... MARK RUTTE 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 People easily become familiar with what you teach them practically than what you tell them verbally.... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. CRAIG GROESCHEL I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN We all want to become more than we are, we want to live forever, that is why we hate death and creat... BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Bill Hodges is her touchstone, the way she measures her ability to interact with the world. Which is... STEPHEN KING The struggle is part of your story but Everything will be in place in the right situation at a perfe... NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS With the exchange rates the way they are, a lot of imports are coming over. It's a very busy, busy y... DON WYLIE This is an intersection in the Web of where Web documents come in. Inside the Web document could be ... DAVID BOLOKER We are the voices of the wandering wind,
Which moan for rest and rest can never find;
Lo! as ... EDWIN ARNOLD Fixing the Middle East is only part of the problem. It is a West European problem, too. FRANCIS FUKUYAMA
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You can't forget where ... BRYSON SUMLIN I have to see where the defense and my linemen are, ... I have to set them up in the right place to ... BRYSON SUMLIN There's a lot of little things I need to work on, ... I have to do a better job showing run fake. Bu... BRYSON SUMLIN Point A to Point Z. BRYSON SUMLIN Out of the corner of my eye, I saw a guy coming, ... I cut left to bring the guy to my block. BRYSON SUMLIN The second home run I thought it was a pop-up. I guess the wind gave me a little help. BRYSON BENDALL It was a good pitch at the knee caps and I got in front and attacked it. I didn't know what a home r... BRYSON BENDALL We knew we could hit him. We just had to get out in front and sit on that first pitch fastball. BRYSON BENDALL The second home run  I thought it was a pop-up. I guess the wind g... BRYSON BENDALL It was a good pitch at the knee caps and I got in front and attacked it. I didn't know what a home r... BRYSON BENDALL The intimate, even incestuous Circle in the Square where the audience was close enough to be patrons... JOHN BRYSON I was working at Papa John's full-time. I had just quit my part-time job at UPS. I was there for... BRYSON TILLER I read an article in Forbes entitled 'Six Ways To Achieve Any Goal,' and it really inspired ... BRYSON TILLER Sometimes my life is moving so fast that I forget what's going on. I'm just going with the p... BRYSON TILLER The insurance payments are going to go away. The outlook remains very bleak. JAY BRYSON I just started mimicking what I heard and singing along to it. BRYSON TILLER Everybody always thinks you have to move out of the city and go where the music industry is, but it&... BRYSON TILLER Whenever you fly into Louisville, you see a sign that says, 'It's Possible Here.' I reme... BRYSON TILLER I'm from Louisville, Kentucky, and nobody gets out of there. So I'm like, how am I gonna get... BRYSON TILLER I always laugh when I listen to my old stuff. I was just trying way too much back then. Doing too ma... BRYSON TILLER Those lanes will be constructed during the 2006 construction season. Traffic will remain on the exis... CRAIG BRYSON I grew up with my little brother, and we were raised by my grandmother. I was an insider for real. I... BRYSON TILLER It will help more evenly distribute the east-west traffic in that area. CRAIG BRYSON The lower cost of Chinese goods means we can spend more on other goods and services. JAY BRYSON The good thing about our schedule, you don't want to say the 'classics' don't matter, but we can sti... BRYSON ROSSER This has been a long time coming for us. We first conceived of the project about 10 years ago, and t... CRAIG BRYSON Music is an important factor to a healthy way of living. MAURICE BRYSON Surround yourself with people who value your friendship, rather than those who posed the opposite. MAURICE BRYSON Don't be pigheaded over your successes, but rather educate and inspire others to follow in your foot... MAURICE BRYSON Love is magical, adorable, and challenging. To get the best out of it, you have to live it, feel it,... MAURICE BRYSON In general, a rising rate environment slows down growth, so most companies are not going to go as go... JAY BRYSON Don’t pinch that guy’s ass. He’s a leprechaun. KATHY BRYSON It was never just about the money. KATHY BRYSON She caught you. Therefore she gets your treasure. KATHY BRYSON Are you trying to seduce me or trick me? KATHY BRYSON No one ever said you can’t have world dominance and a little romance too. KATHY BRYSON