in my opinion if you have a secret compartment in your lute case and don't use it to hide things, there is something terribly, terribly wrong with you.
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Related There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness. GEORGE STEINER I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wr... DANIEL BRYAN Call me crazy, but there is something terribly wrong with this city. NATHAN REESE MAHER You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terrib... GRAHAM SWIFT Metaphorically speaking, a person's ideas must be the building he lives in - otherwise there is some... SøREN KIERKEGAARD The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly, terribly deceived. OSCAR WILDE I have a very strong bond with my dad, and if something was terribly wrong, I would feel it. And I f... AMBER HELMS You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you... EMILIE AUTUMN If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion. YVES BEHAR In America, the distance between wanting something and having it delivered to your living room is no... GARY SHTEYNGART The most successful stuff is sold to you as indispensable social information. The message in the mus... IGGY POP My lasting impression of Truman Capote is that he was a terribly gentle, terribly sensitive, and ter... ALVIN AILEY I don't want to create controversy; I just have an opinion on things, and there is nothing wrong... JOHN TRAVOLTA There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS If you go, then I'll miss you.. terribly JULIA HOBAN We wouldn't be so terribly against it if they use Florida statistics. DOUG DILLON This team's fate probably depends a lot on me. But is it so terribly wrong that they become extras i... BJARNE RIIS If rock-and-roll is well done, there's nothing so terribly wrong with that kind of music. But th... KATE SMITH There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless. WILSON MIZNER There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless WILSON MIZNER Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chance... JULIAN BAGGINI Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terrib... JAMES D. WATSON if u know how to use your mind , you dont need a million bucks to make you feel like your in paradis... ELVIS HODZIC Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural insti... FANNIE FLAGG In this day and age, fortunately or unfortunately, we all have quite a few things. If you have somet... ROZ PACTOR The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived OSCAR WILDE All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futi... NORMAN SCHWARZKOPF You are a hole in my life, a black hole. Anything I place there cannot be returned. I miss you terri... TIMOTHY CONIGRAVE I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in ... SEBASTIAN BARRY about you and your profitability. And I must tell you, it's not terribly fun defending you. LARRY CRAIG That was terribly thoughtless of you. What good is having friends if they don’t put you in mortal ... BRANDON SANDERSON I know you have it in you, Guy," Anne said suddenly at the end of a silence, "the capacity to be ter... PATRICIA HIGHSMITH When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with... JONATHAN MABERRY There is something about you that makes me feel terribly wicked. You make me want to do shocking thi... LISA KLEYPAS I would be terribly disappointed if anything would get in the way of my being cast in something, or ... TREVOR NUNN If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there ma... ROGER A. CARAS If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there ma... ROGER CARAS It became clear to us in that case there is no best practice and it is frequently something where yo... KITTY LAGARETA dont be hard on yourself for doing something wrong, be hard on yourself when you question your faith... BAILEY CHANDRA Oh, what a nuisance you are! I'm giving you my mouth, my arms, my whole body - and everything could ... JEAN-PAUL SARTRE It really seems to me that in the midst of great tragedy, there is always the horrible possibility t... PHILIP K. DICK In case you have lost your years in the wrong path, pursuing a goal that has nothing to do with your... SUNDAY ADELAJA Life is terribly too short to spend your precious time doing or thinking about terrible things DAVID FELFOLDI There's something terribly wrong with that agency, ... Of all the agencies, that's the one that's su... BYRON DORGAN I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admi... AMBER HEARD People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing. ORHAN PAMUK There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can'... NATALIE ZEA If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but ther... ROGER CARAS My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the t... EDMUND PHELPS Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD Being a woman is a terribly difficult task since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD This morning, there is sort of disbelief and anger that this has happened. I think that most people ... GLENDA COOPER People think that they are untouchable, but you will probably find that there lives are built around... GARY F EVANS... Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. WILLIAM WESTMORELAND Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. GEN WILLIAM C. WESTMORELAND Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are mos... ROBERT PENN WARREN Poets, we know, are terribly sensitive people, and in my observation one of the things they are most... ROBERT PENN WARREN There's nothing wrong with talking out loud in public, but there is something wrong with the gov... CLIVE THOMPSON If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. GEORGE ORWELL If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depth... EDSGER DIJKSTRA I'm terribly sorry, if I see one I shall inform you immediately. JOHNNY DEPP Living, just by itself / what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there al... LOUIS FERDINAND CELINE The law in Texas doesn't give you any credit if you voluntarily take something and it impairs you ev... WARREN DIEPRAAM It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. WOODROW WILSON There are many different things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them. It is diffic... LEMONY SNICKET "No" is something you use a lot, and when you start using it you have a whip in your hands. LOU SCHULTZ If you're showing people where it's smooth sailing, where is the joke? If you go back to any... CHRISTOPHER GUEST If you can't manage to get you own troops behind you when you have a majority of 66 in the House of ... SIMON HUGHES If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something ... WILLIAM J. H. BOETCKER I haven't done fillers or Botox for ages. There comes a point where you have to match bits of yo... FELICITY KENDAL There are many difficult things in this world to hide, but a secret is not one of them. LEMONY SNICKET Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find ... YOKO ONO I miss you deeply, unfathomably, senselessly, terribly. FRANZ KAFKA The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead
of having pain and pleasure u... ANTHONY ROBBINS The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u... ANTHONY ROBBINS You don't want to try to look younger, because you'll look wrong. You dye your hair, you loo... GEORGE CLOONEY Everyone wants to know the secret of exercise and diet, and the only secret there is, in my opinion,... HANK DROUGHT I hope that when we do run into incidents involving casualties, there is not then a great outcry for... ANTHONY LAKE But there are some things, child, that you should steal. That you must steal, if you h... LIAN TANNER If you did something wrong, it is because of a choice you have made. It is true that there are peopl... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Crime is terribly revealing. Try and vary your methods as you will, your tastes, your habits, your a... AGATHA CHRISTIE If you have done something meritorious, you experience pleasure and happiness; if wrong things, suff... SWAMI SATCHIDANANDA There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to kee... L. M. MONTGOMERY There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that the... JACK BLACK I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping thin... MATT SMITH The biggest unanswered question is how Venus went so terribly wrong and became such a hellish place ... LARRY ESPOSITO There is no auto pilot in U.S.-China relations, but relations have matured to the point where neithe... DENNIS WILDER There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathize with the ... OSCAR WILDE People use words to do battle and to hurt one another terribly, tragically and even mortally. BRYANT MCGILL Our great struggle in medicine these days is not just with ignorance and uncertainty. It's also ... ATUL GAWANDE It's terribly important that we extend the promise of equality that the Supreme Court and that t... DAVID BOIES If you want the railway services to improve, my gut feeling is that you need to limit, restrict or b... APURVA GAGLANI Manipulative - selfish - always out to prove you wrong. Your words were twisted into something unrec... FAWN ARRINGTON Pain is an interesting and off-putting thing. Few if any things in life concentrate our attention so... DAN SIMMONS Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly gratef... JOHN TAVENER Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best. NORTON JUSTER If you care about something enough, it’s going to make you cry. But you have to use it. Use your t... SHERMAN ALEXIE If you keep in secret what would have been used to help you, you will never be helped! Your gifts ma... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR The secret of success is learning how to use pain and pleasure instead of having pain and pleasure u... TONY ROBBINS But on treatment, it is lagging unconscionably, ... What troubles me, and troubles me deeply, is tha... STEPHEN LEWIS
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS She washed he hands,then looked at my side. "you haven't even had it stitched?" She said incredulous... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. M... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Maple. Maypole Catch and carry. Ash and Ember. Elderberry. Woolen. Woman. M... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...it is better to have a mouthful of poison than a secret of the heart. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Only a fool worries over what he can’t control. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-lost in ledger all hope forgotten. Yet fa... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Vashet: “I will admit, I’ve never had a studen offer himself up for a vicious beating in order t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Death was like an unpleasant neighbor. You didn’t talk about him for fear he might hear you and de... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It was only then I realized I didn't know the name of Elodin's class. I leafed through the ledger un... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I swear I've never met a man who has your knack for lack of social grace. If you weren't naturally c... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Re'lar Kvothe," he said seriously. "I am trying to wake your sleeping mind to the subtle language th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I know," she said. "You have a stone in your heart, and some days it's so heavy there is nothing to ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked. PATRICK ROTHFUSS How about this?' Simmon asked me. "Which is worse, stealing a pie or killing Ambrose?" I gave i... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment. PATRICK ROTHFUSS You can divide infinity an infinite number of times, and the resulting pieces will still be infinite... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times. PATRICK ROTHFUSS A poet is a musician who can't sing. PATRICK ROTHFUSS The truth is that the world is full of dragons, and none of us are as powerful or cool as we’d lik... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Strength of body. Strength of mind. strength of personality. All this things lie within a person. Th... PATRICK ROTHFUSS For all that she lacked your fire. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Upon him I will visit famine and a fire, Till all around him desolation rings And all the ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS One wife, you're happy, two and you're tired, three and they'll hate each other, four and they'll ha... PATRICK ROTHFUSS That is how heavy a secret can become. It can make blood flow easier than ink. PATRICK ROTHFUSS There's looking and there's looking. When some men look at you it's a greasy thing. It makes you wan... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I WOKE IN A BED. In a room. In an inn. More than that was not immediately clear to me. It felt exact... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She didn't know any better. Nobody had ever told her that she couldn't. Because of this, she moved t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS If you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you... PATRICK ROTHFUSS But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'With... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I do not understand this man," [Tempi] said. "Is he attempting to buy sex with me? Or does he wish t... PATRICK ROTHFUSS You are an educated man. You know there are no such things as demons." Bast smiled a terrible smile.... PATRICK ROTHFUSS ...nothing in the world is harder than convincing someone of an unfamiliar truth. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Power is okay, and stupidity is usually harmless. Power and stupidity together are dangerous". PATRICK ROTHFUSS Truth is a troublesome motherfucker unless it's handled properly PATRICK ROTHFUSS Why would I want to win anything other than a beautiful game? PATRICK ROTHFUSS Patience and propriety. It was the only graceful thing to do. PATRICK ROTHFUSS She looked at me. "What? Is there something wrong with my idea?" "It's not very heroic," I said... PATRICK ROTHFUSS It´s one thing to enjoy a story, but it´s quite another to take it for the truth. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Today,' Elodin said brightly, 'we will talk about things that cannot be talked about. Specifically, ... PATRICK ROTHFUSS I guess I'm doomed to die loveless. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's no... PATRICK ROTHFUSS She smiled like knife on a velvet, she stretched like cat on the sun. PATRICK ROTHFUSS Wilem: 'What is the word for that here? A man who is intimate with both women and men?' 'Lucky?... PATRICK ROTHFUSS Are you hurt?" "Absolutely," I said. "Especially in my everywhere. PATRICK ROTHFUSS I was one of those. I meddled with dark powers. I summoned demons. I ate the entire little chee... 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