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You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.


Melissa de la Cruz

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TRAIN They were friends. That's all she ever seemed to have. Friends. She had enough of them.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ If you are punished by the rule you set up, you have been punished by the rule you set up.
EPHDAN Isn't Heaven reward enough, without needing to see the damned punished?
MICHEL FABER I have learned as a journalist that if you look long enough and hard enough and carefully enough, mo...
EDWARD KLEIN I'm happy to announce that our long national vigil involving Angel [de] la Cruz is over. I thank the...
GLORIA ARROYO If I had obeyed God, as I have obeyed him, He would not have punished me.
SWAMWRA OF BASRA You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C.S. LEWIS You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me
C.S. LEWIS If you just try long enough and hard enough, you can always manage to boot yourself in the posterior...
A. J. LIEBLING You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
C. S. LEWIS Forever’s a long time.” Trent’s arms squeeze around me. “Forever’s not long enough when it...
K.A. TUCKER Jared gripped me tighter. "If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS Nat didn't know what to make of Ryan Wesson-whether she wanted to slap him or kiss him. Slap him, de...
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ If you bought a house at the top of the market with an adjustable-rate mortgage, knowing that long-t...
MARCI ROSSELL You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
CHRISTOPHER NOLAN, THE DARK KNIGHT You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.
BUDDHA You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.
GAUTAMA BUDDHA I'm old enough to have friends and contemporaries who have long since retired, and that's th...
MIKE LEIGH Hell, I suppose if you stick around long enough they have to say something nice about you.
AVA GARDNER Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.
GROUCHO MARX «Nunca avancemos para dejar atrás a la cruz, sino solo hacia una más profunda comprensión de la ...
C.J. MAHANEY Don't think you haven't lived long enough to have a story to tell.
PATRICK NESS I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stea...
FRANK ABAGNALE Harvey Dent: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
HARVEY DENT Give me the benefit of your convictions, if you have any; but keep your doubts to yourself, for I ha...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.
DREW KARPYSHYN No one's happy here, you know that. But I am content, and maybe that's enough for me.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ If you persevere long enough, if you do the right things long enough, the right things will happen.
IAN MILLAR How long have you been standing there?"
"Just long enough to see you give Daemon the middle fin...
JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT As long as we only have to lie to the enemy, it's honest enough for me.
-Captain Tagon
HOWARD TAYLER You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all you...
SAMUEL LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all you...
SAM LEVENSON You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all you...
SAM LEVENSON You shouldn't have a long-term strategy anymore, because you won't be able to move fast enough.
ORIT GADISH Give me a lever long enough And a prop strong enough, I can single handed move the world.
UNKNOWN Give me a lever long enough, and a prop strong enough, I can single-handed move the world.
ARCHIMEDES Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
GROUCHO MARX Learn from the mistakes of others-you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.
JOHN LUTHER “If you do what you do well enough, long enough, consistently enough and fast enough, you will win...
PETER PADILLA Trust me to return to you."
"I will wait forever.
however long it takes.
MELISSA DE LA CRUZ You'll never find a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
WINSTON S. CHURCHILL You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, ...
CYNTHIA WEIL How long do you want me?" he asked.
How long can I have you? I thought.
MICHELLE HODKIN Controlling yourself is not enough. You have to drive yourself.
EPHDAN I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.
WALT WHITMAN It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them a...
HYMAN RICKOVER People above should have been punished.
MARY TILLMAN As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me.
LIL WAYNE If you look into someone's face long enough, eventually you're going to feel that you're looking at ...
PAUL AUSTER Lie long enough and eventually you'll believe yourself.
AHMED MOSTAFA You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all...
SAM LEVENSON That's it! You people have stood in my way long enough. I'm going to clown college!
DAN CASTELLANETA I understand that people feel moral outrage over this. And there is likely to be some criminal punis...
KEVIN MARTINGAYLE You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the world...
JAMES BALDWIN You need to have enough immediate profits that you can finance the long-range growth without dilutin...
PAUL COOK I have lived long enough to satisfy both nature and glory.
JULIUS CAESAR Life's only limitations are those you set upon yourself, for as long as you strive hard enough anyth...
CHAD WILLIAMS You have enough people against you... be for yourself.
JOEL OSTEEN Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams,
Now I wash the gum from your eyes,
You...
WALT WHITMAN It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know th...
LEE KUAN YEW You know, it's not the world that was my oppressor, because what the world does to you, if the w...
JAMES A. BALDWIN When you play long enough, everybody goes through spells and streaks and slumps of some nature. I th...
MARK MESSIER It's easy to love yourself when you feel good enough, when you feel special enough, when you'...
DEBBIE FORD The secret of long marriage? ~ It's simple: You just have to find the right woman and old enough.
VIKRANT PARSAI The name of the game is taking care of yourself, because you're going to live long enough to wish yo...
GRACE MIRABELLA That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies ha...
JANE AUSTEN Put your hands on me Destiny. I've dreamed about it long enough.
CINDY SKAGGS Give me a place to stand and a lever long enough and I will move the world.
ARCHIMEDES I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.
JULIUS CAESAR He studied my appearance carefully. “You cut your hair.” “Yes. Do you like it?” “That depe...
COLLEEN HOUCK A vacation should be just long enough that you're boss misses you, and not long enough for him to di...
SOURCE UNKNOWN If you have accomplished all that you have planned for yourself, you have not planned enough
EDWARD EVERETT HALE If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and quee...
ALGERNON SWINBURNE I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end;/ Goddess and maiden and quee...
ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me ...
JAMES THURBER Enough is enough. There is only so long you can beat a dead horse,
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE If you have accomplished all that you planned for yourself, you have not planned enough.
EDWARD EVERETT HALE The doctors who have examined me say I am healthy enough for a long life, so don't have any illu...
TOMAS BORGE Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward...
HARRY EMERSON FOSDICK Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward...
NAPOLEON HILL If you beat metal long enough, it turns to steel.
PENELOPE DOUGLAS As you can see, I have memorized this utterly useless piece of information long enough to pass a tes...
BILL WATTERSON I have an Emmy, but it's no big deal: work in TV news long enough, you eventually get one.
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN I suppose if you take enough slim chances, you are bound to create success out of one if you stick w...
CHRIS HILL If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
ART BUCHWALD People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try ...
SALMA HAYEK You wanted to look at life for yourself - but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish....
HENRY JAMES My head kept moving on the shot. I tried to correct it, but it wasn't working. He punished me.
JIMMY WHITE Do you love yourself enough to be what you love yourself enough to want.
STEVE MARABOLI Do you love yourself enough to BE what you love yourself enough to WANT?
STEVE MARABOLI I can’t promise you forever, because that’s not long enough. - Jason Dorsey
JASINDA WILDER I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a mo...
DAVID AYER Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long e...
DON MARQUIS

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OSCAR DE LA RENTA If you want to establish an international presence you can't do so from New York. You need the c...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Regardless of how good or bad a collection might be, it's a letdown after the show is over. It&#...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I have this complex that if I walk into a place wearing a colorful shirt someone will stop me and sa...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We're dealing with sophisticated customers. What's most important to these women is individu...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Online media is increasingly influential in fashion.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Now is the most exciting time in fashion. Women are controlling their destiny now, the consumer is m...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA There is always an emotional element to anything that you make.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have ...
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I don't really know how to do casual clothes.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I like light, color, luminosity. I like things full of color and vibrant.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA Every season I am inspired by women.
OSCAR DE LA RENTA I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, get...
OSCAR DE LA HOYA Everything I have in this world, I owe to the sport of boxing, and I won't ever forget that.
OSCAR DE LA HOYA You can really only enjoy life when you're extremely busy.
JOSEPHINE DE LA BAUME There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death; he is not conscious of bein...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What makes lovers never tire of one another is that they talk always about themselves.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD By time and toil we sever What strength and rage could never. [Fr., Patience et longueur de te...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is worth more. [Fr., Rien n'est si da...
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD