If I only have ten minutes, Sam, this is what I want to say. You're not the best of us. You're more than that. You're better than all of us. If I only have ten minutes, I would tell you to go out there and live. I'd say...please take your guitar and sing your songs to as many people as you can. Please fold a thousand more of those damn birds of yours. Please kiss that girl a million times.
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Related I hope you read this, whoever you are, and imagine that there is a hypothetical person out there who... CHARLES YU People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt it? 'Ca... KANYE WEST There is only one thing that arouses animals more than pleasure, and that is pain. Under torture you... UMBERTO ECO People always say that you can't please everybody. I think that's a cop-out. Why not attempt... KANYE WEST Please kiss that girl a million times. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Exactly. That's what's been happening here for the past ten thousand years: You've been doing what y... DANIEL QUINN I would / Love you ten years before the flood, / And you should if you please refuse / Till the conv... ANDREW MARVELL Your Majesty, please get down. My friend Aris is really a very good man, and if you fall off that wa... MEGAN WHALEN TURNER Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ... SAM RAYBURN If you get the order to evacuate, please take us seriously. We do not want to have to rescue people ... DAVE JOHNSON My people and I have come to an agreement which satisfied us both. They are to say what they please,... FREDERICK THE GREAT There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citize... ORSON SCOTT CARD Rather than trying to describe it to you, I would rather you watch it yourself. After watching the v... DON WILDMON Can you play the piano like Beethoven? Or sing like Carly Simon? Can you take fie pages' worth of qu... JENNIFER ESTEP If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want. You can't change ... AL FRANKEN And you can use the time as you want. You could say, 'I need you to go pick up a prescription for me... LILLIE WHITE If you only try to please others, you're going to resent those people you're trying to please; the o... SARAH MCLACHLAN If the placebo effect was a week or two, I would understand that and say, 'Yes, youre right.' You kn... BOB GREEN People say that you are only as good as your last appearance. If I have a bad outing, then I need to... ANDREW GROVES What I write, only I can write, because of my singular sensibility, so I made a deal with the creati... RODNEY CROWELL Please in the future, if y'all ever need help, please call us. All you have to do is ask for help. I... JOEL LAWRENCE Let it be known that I am not writing this to please man, for I am not a friend of man or this insan... LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ... HECTOR GARCIA If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I woul... JAMES FREY There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f... WILLIAM HAZLITT There are few things in which we deceive ourselves more than in the esteem we profess to entertain f... WILLIAM HAZLITT A word to those of you out there who have yet to be offended by something I have said: Please be pat... ANN COULTER There seem to be a lot of gay people there...Oh please, as if that's what I meant by that. Trust me,... JUSTIN HALPERN girl/boy..!! you do it again and again even after saying so many times..!! no no..!! dats it..!! its... FAHEEM IQBAL If you wait, I will come for you...remembering your touch, your kiss, your warm embrace. I'll My fin... TRACY CHAPMAN Under torture you are as if under the dominion of those grasses that produce visions. Everything you... UMBERTO ECO Depending on the situation, sometimes you can know a person better in ten minutes than someone you h... DAVID BALDACCI Evelyn, please, you have no idea how much I regret that day.” “I think I have some idea.�... TARUN SHANKER I know that happy things and fun things eventually come to an end. But things that are scary and sad... NATSUKI TAKAYA When you grow up, you gain experience and realise what youre capable of. FRANCESCO TOTTI Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. S... GLADYS KNIGHT I never say "If I were her, this is how I would have acted, this is what I would have done, etc. etc... C. JOYBELL C. Please... Please ... Please tell this people after few more words you are goin... DEYTH BANGER Please... Please ... Please tell this people after few more words that you are... DEYTH BANGER We have to be able to criticise what we love, to say what we have to say 'cause if your not tryi... ANI DIFRANCO Which way did they go, Peeves?" Filch was saying. "Quick, tell me." "Say 'please.'" "Don... J.K. ROWLING It's just, you gotta pay your dues if you want to sing the blues. Not that I've never paid dues in m... FRANK BLACK I think you have to set your goals high. If I go out there and say I just want to make the cut, that... BRIAN HARMAN If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a ... SOPHOCLES Once you get rid of the idea that you must please other people before you please
yourself, and you b... RAQUEL WELCH Let me take you to a better place,
full of death, rot and decay. My silver hair shall billow around ... LUCY CREVAN Not half as much as I’d miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash�... SHERRILYN KENYON Be cheerful ten times as much as you complain. Communicate and listen more than you are silent with ... PHIL MITCHELL It's heavy duty to try to do everything and please everybody . . . My job was to go out there and pl... MICHAEL JORDAN Don't live as if you are to die tomorrow. That isn't useful.
Instead live as if you only had ten yea... NICK KINSELLA You want these back, don't you? You want me out of here so you can come back and take over where you... DANIEL KEYES Many BrainPal users find it useful to give their BrainPal a name other than BrainPal. Would you like... JOHN SCALZI Nothing would please the Kremlin more than to have the people of this country choose a second rate p... RICHARD M. NIXON My reaction to porn films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. A... ERICA JONG My reaction to porno films is as follows; After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw, ... ERICA JONG My reaction to porno films is as follows: After the first ten minutes, I want to go home and screw. ... ERICA JONG If you live your life to please everyone else, you will continue to feel frustrated and powerless. T... BEVERLY ENGEL Not only will you sleep with me, but you will say 'please.'" I stared at him, shocked. Th... ILONA ANDREWS As you consider selecting songs for your worship services, consider them in light of the truth of th... MATT CHANDLER I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes... LORD BRABAZON I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes... LORD BRABAZON If I seem to give a damn, please tell me. I would hate to be giving the wrong impression. HAYTHUM R. KHALID I don't know what I'm going to do. The only thing I say is that God will please give me somewhere to... DOLORES CAMACHO You see, you all start with the premise that democracy is some good. I don't think it's worth a damn... DEAN ACHESON Please, Kate. Suspend your dislike of me for a few moments and listen to what I have to say. It make... ILONA ANDREWS If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many thing... SAMUEL JOHNSON If you can't please yourself some of the time, how do you expect to please people all the time? Not ... ANTHONY LICCIONE There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u... C. JOYBELL C. if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances. JULIA SOREL I am sitting far from you A thousand miles away from you I sit and write for you A th... AMIT ABRAHAM In writing. Don't use adjectives which merely tell us how you want us to feel about the thing you ar... C.S. LEWIS If Someone judge by your looks & say
"You are not beautiful"
Just Smile Back them & Say
"I have an A... DINACE KUMAR C Well this is aptly called a junket, for both of us. I have never been to a house of prostitution, bu... DUSTIN HOFFMAN This is your life, not someone else's. It is your own feeling of what is important, not what people ... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Master Graves was incensed and said, as punishment for my disruption, I would have to write my lette... JENNIFER A. NIELSEN Please, please be very, very diligent in what you do. Your actions could affect more than just yours... BENNIE SETH You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work an... MATT RYAN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON If you still have no explanation for your child's death, please contact me. I know the agony. I know... ELIZABETH MURPHY If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge o... ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Regardless of what people ultimately think about Crazy As Hell, It's not the type of film that, ... ERIQ LA SALLE Not only do I not want to be stereotyped as this Asian girl who fights - gee, what a wonder - but al... MAGGIE Q I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of he... ELIZABETH GILBERT I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you... PADMA LAKSHMI In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will... S. I. HAYAKAWA There is so little time for us all, I need to be able to say what I want quickly and to as many peop... MARC BOLAN I mean they should take us to these nice places and then tell us what it is that these people do for... HORST CHRISTIAN Please swallow your prideIf I have things you need to borrowFor no one can fill those of your needsT... BILL WITHERS I have to be the only person in America who had a doctor say to him, 'Please don't put any m... HOWIE MANDEL This is sams phone" there was a long,heavy pause, and then: "oh." Another pause. "Youre the girl, ar... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It may sound like I am making too much out of all this, but the only way you can allow a kid to trul... W. KAMAU BELL I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired part... CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE People think that I can teach them style. What stuff it all is. Have something to say and say it as ... MATTHEW ARNOLD If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say ... WILLIAM MCGOVERN If you have lower than a ten percent turnover, there is a problem. And if you have higher than, say ... RICHARD M. NIXON You do that Helen", Mallory dared. "And tell him we said to f*ck off while youre at it". CHLOE NEILL Say what you want about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that th... HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Sometimes if you have very confident people, you have to tell them please, be polite, there are othe... KURT MASUR Swallow the tears back often enough and they’ll start feeling like acid dripping down your throat.... TAHEREH MAFI
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Lifting my arm,... MAGGIE STIEFVATER You two are too cute,” the counter girl said, setting two cups piled with whipped cream on the cou... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words. MAGGIE STIEFVATER What's happening here?" This last bit was hissed to Ronan and Noah. "Noah took a personal day.... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Noah had wandered down the aisle, but now he gleefully returned with a snow globe. He stood behind R... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam: “You—you greatly overestimate my self-control.” Grace: “I’m not looking for self... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the night, I've shrunk and everyone else on the island has grown. They're all nine feet tall and ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan didn't need physics. He could intimidate even a piece of plywood into doing what he wanted. MAGGIE STIEFVATER I don't care to be pretty," Blue shot back hotly, "I care to look on the outside like I look on the ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It wasn't the sort of kiss I'd had with him before, hungry, wanting, desperate. It wasn't the sort o... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I just looked at her, feeling utterly empty. I didn’t know what I was supposed to say to her. M... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I couldn't think of anything that didn't sound trivial, so I just nodded. MAGGIE STIEFVATER I wasn't talking to you, Lynch. I need someone with a soul. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Again and Again, however, we know the language of love, and the little churchyard with its lamenting... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I remember being intrigued by the idea of school-in-a-box, just-add-water-and-Sam. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Or even tell me it's because you could not live without The Boy's stunning Boyfruits for another nig... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was trying to decide if you still had free will as a wolf. If I was a terrible person for planning... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I misse... MAGGIE STIEFVATER You're assuming they would listen to me," I said. Cole lifted his hands off the roof of the Vol... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flickering lights anonymous doors my heart escaping in drips i'm still waking up MAGGIE STIEFVATER I folded myself against her body, breathing in the smell of my new life and matching my heartbeat to... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Because you know that's not how you want it to end. You know I'd love to have you with me, and it wi... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Avoiding a bathtub because your parents tried to kill you in one isn't the same as avoiding your ent... MAGGIE STIEFVATER And leaving you (there aren't words to untangle it) Your life, fearful and immense and blossomi... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Most people had an acquired kind of beauty, they became better looking the longer you knew them and ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I walk through the seasons and always the birds are singing and screaming and keening for love<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Folded in my arms you're a butterfly in reverse you're giving up your wings and inheriting my c... MAGGIE STIEFVATER My parents had always been so careful with me, until the day they decided I needed to die. MAGGIE STIEFVATER To Grace, these were the things that mattered: my hands on her cheeks, my lips on her mouth. The fle... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Come on," Cole said. He looked back over his shoulder at Mr. Brisbane, who was looking at me with a ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He'd only been gone two seconds, but the room got brighter when they were together, as if they were ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Afterward, Isabel drove me home and I shut myself in the study with Rilke, and I read and I wanted.<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She loved all the wolves behind her house, but she loved one of them most of all. And thi... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I won't let this be my good-bye. I've folded one thousand paper crane memories of me and Grace, and ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand ways to say good-bye One thousands ways to cry One thousand ways to hang your... MAGGIE STIEFVATER We had this big grill at his house, and I remember, one night he said, 'Sam, tonight you're feeding ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Lunch." I said. "Immediately. I'm going to wither away to absolutely nothing. Then you'll be racked ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER And then I opened my eyes and it was just Grace and me - nothing anywhere but Grace and me - she pre... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She kissed me harder, breath huffing into my mouth, and bit my lip. Oh, hell that was amazing. I gro... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sensitive," I tried. Sam translated: "Squishy." "Creative." "Danger... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Crashing into the trembling void Stretching my hand to you Losing myself to frigid regret<... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I settled on the floor and whispered to Sam, “I want you to listen to me, if you can.” I leaned ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER ..and me holding this moment that was as fragile as a bird in my hands MAGGIE STIEFVATER His lips tasted cool and sharp, peppermint, winter, but his hands, soft on the back of my neck, prom... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam,' the girl said. 'Sam.' She was the past present and future. I wanted to answer , but I was... MAGGIE STIEFVATER right in this moment, I can´t even remember what unhappy feels like. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam laughed, a funny, self-deprecating laugh. "You did read a lot. And spent too much time just insi... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Sam:"Okay, what words would you use then?" I leaned back in the seat, thinking, as Sam looked at me ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER How long?" His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest." For ever?" MAGGIE STIEFVATER Hope hurt more than the cold. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace,” I said, very softly. “Say something.” Sam,” she said, and I crushed her to me. 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MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they moved through the old barn, Adam felt Ronan’s eyes glance off him and away, his disinteres... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He was brother to a liar and brother to an angel, son of a dream and son of a dreamer. MAGGIE STIEFVATER And Ronan was everything that was left: molten eyes and a smile made for war. MAGGIE STIEFVATER While I'm gone," Gansey said, pausing, "dream me the world. Something new for every night. MAGGIE STIEFVATER If I were a tree, I would have no reason to love a human. MAGGIE STIEFVATER The biggest mistake you can make is assuming that creativity will hit you all at once and the muse w... MAGGIE STIEFVATER He started to dance. And all at once, because Cole was dancing, I was dancing. And this Cole was eve... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I was wild and tame and pulled into shreds and crushed into being all at once. MAGGIE STIEFVATER As they scuffled in the grass, Adam closed his eyes and leaned his head back. He could nearly scry j... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam described the circumstances surrounding his eye and his hand with the same level tone he would ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They're saying that you and Sean Kendrick were burning up the cliffs." Tommy spins me again and grin... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When did you get so smart?" He tapped his forehead. "Brain transplant. They put in a whale's. I... MAGGIE STIEFVATER What was a kiss without a kiss?" It was a tablecloth tugged from beneath a party service, ever... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Grace, who haunted my thoughts when I couldn’t dream MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey hurried on. "Let me introduce you. These are my friends: Ronan, Adam Parrish, and Jane." MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam understood, then, that Gansey and Blue’s awe changed this place. Ronan and Adam may have seen... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan, taking in Blue’s posture and Gansey below, observed, “If you spit, Blue, it would land ri... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Casually, out of the view of Ronan, making sure Adam was still sleeping, Gansey dangled his hand bet... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I like you better this way." For some reason, admitting this made her face go hot right away; she wa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Maura had decided sometime before Blue's birth that it was barbaric to order children about, and so ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Flustered, she replied, "You're not my - my - grandmother, or something." "You'd talk abo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER his yellow eyes gazed at me possessively -- I wondered if he realized that the way he looked at me w... MAGGIE STIEFVATER One thousand brilliant stars punched holes in my consciousness, pricking me with longing. I could st... MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was a sort of ferocious, quiet beauty, the sort that wouldn't let you admire it. The sort of beau... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I didn't say I would start a yard." "You didn't have to. I'll come back next year and yo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She doesn't know any better, what a girl like her needs is a man with both his legs on the land. A m... MAGGIE STIEFVATER That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom &am... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the middle of all this, as Sean slips out of his jacket, he looks over his shoulder at me and he ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many read... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Aglionby Academy was the number one reason Blue had developed her two rules: One, stay away from boy... MAGGIE STIEFVATER In the end, he was nobody to Adam, he was nobody to Ronan. Adam spit his words back at him and Ronan... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I found it." "People find pennies," Gansey replied. "Or car keys. Or four-leaf clovers." "... MAGGIE STIEFVATER She recognized the strange happiness that came from loving something without knowing why you did, th... MAGGIE STIEFVATER When she opened her eyes, she was both in her body and watching it, nowhere near the cavity of the t... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I think they're here because I thought they ought to be here," Gansey said. Blue replied sarcas... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Adam had once told Gansey, "Rags to riches isn't a story anyone wants to hear until after it's done. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Blue tried not to look at Gansey's boat shoes; she felt better about him as a person if she pretende... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Gansey's partying with his mother," Ronan said. He smelled like beer. "And Noah's fucking dead. But ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER I guess now would be a good time to tell you," He said. "I took Chainsaw out of my dreams. MAGGIE STIEFVATER You missed World Hist." "Did you get notes for me?" "No. I thought you were dead in a ditc... MAGGIE STIEFVATER From the passenger seat, Ronan began to swear at Adam. It was a long, involved swear, using every fo... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Fate," Blue replied, glowering at her mother, "is a very weighty word to throw around before breakfa... MAGGIE STIEFVATER They were always walking away from him. But he never seemed able to walk away from them. MAGGIE STIEFVATER When Gansey was polite, it made him powerful. When Adam was polite, he was giving power away. MAGGIE STIEFVATER Ronan said, "I'm always straight." Adam replied "Oh, man, that's the biggest lie you've ever to... MAGGIE STIEFVATER You are being self-pitying." "I'm nearly done. You don't have much more of this to bear." ... MAGGIE STIEFVATER We have to be back in three hours," Ronan said. "I just fed Chainsaw but she'll need it again." MAGGIE STIEFVATER She wasn't interested in telling other people's futures. She was interested in going out and finding... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Right,' he said. 'So it stands to reason there's something about the line that fortifies or protects... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Nothing had changed. Nothing. MAGGIE STIEFVATER It was true that Blue was just shy of five feet and it was also true that she hadn't eaten her green... MAGGIE STIEFVATER Even though Ronan was snarling and Noah was sighing and Adam was hesitating, he didn’t turn to ver... MAGGIE STIEFVATER