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Graydon Carter

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When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER 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 To change yourself you have to move from where you are and take a step, then you have to be willing ...
BRENT M. JONES History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely...
DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p...
DEBORAH KERR 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 Everything else - music, cinematography, costumes, design, acting - can be judged at face value. But...
CHRISTOPHER ROUSE I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We die a day at a time
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS If your presence doesn't make an impact, your absence won't make a difference.
TREY SMITH That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either.
JAIME CONTRERAS I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso...
DEBORAH KERR 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 Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER Don't knock what you don't know.
DEYON ANTEKO PITTER Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Each one of us can make a difference. Together we make change.
BARBARA MIKULSKI She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Dreams, just dreams, it's all illusion
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA oh.
she heard it
too-no waters
coursing, canyon
empty, sun
soundless- ...
BARBARA BLATNER I could simply
kill you now,
get it over with,
who would
know the difference...
BARBARA BLATNER ...gripping the
rim of the sink
you claw your
way to stand
and cling there, ...
BARBARA BLATNER Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping?'
'You're bitching about ...
LETA BLAKE why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe...
SHARIF MOHAMED Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You ask for the distinction between 'Editor' and 'Publisher': an editor selects manuscripts; a publi...
MAX SCHUSTER My dad was an editor and a writer, and that's actually what I aspired to be.
ANNE M. MULCAHY Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.
DARRELL ROYAL You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES It has often been observed, that those who have the most time at their disposal profit by it the lea...
WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w...
A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s...
CARTER CROCKER Although it's great to appear to a feast, home is always sweet, though it may be lonely and cold lik...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Onstage I'm the one in control - I'm not at the mercy of how an editor chooses to put the sc...
LAURIE METCALF 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 There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus...
MILDRED D. TAYLOR Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard...
NANETTE L. AVERY While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.
JEFFREY ARCHER I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?"
"You could try rubbing ...
SARAH J. MAAS A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I live nearby a graveyard, that's where I get all my inspiration for wisdom and life
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA We've really made an effort to look at the historical aspects of the region and put together a plan ...
DONALD JERNIGAN Francesca was a strong believer in fate. She assumed he picked up the habit from her therapist who w...
COURTNEY CAROLA Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE

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ALLY CARTER It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becom...
ALLY CARTER Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER If you doubt you can accomplish something, then you can't accomplish it. You have to have confidence...
ROSALYNN CARTER Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving ...
ALLY CARTER ...maybe it's only fitting that relationship that started with a lie would end with one.
ALLY CARTER Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.
ALLY CARTER A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It...
JIMMY CARTER I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align...
ANGELA CARTER There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with ...
ANGELA CARTER The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul -- enormous breasts, pathet...
ANGELA CARTER We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
JIMMY CARTER Our decision about energy will test the character of the American people and the ability of the Pres...
JIMMY CARTER According to Gandhi, the seven sins are wealth without works, pleasure without conscience, knowledge...
JIMMY CARTER I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I ...
JIMMY CARTER Well, as you know, there are many things in life that are not fair, that wealthy people can afford a...
JIMMY CARTER You can do what you have to do, and sometimes you can do it even better than you think you can.
JIMMY CARTER Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
LILLIAN CARTER Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including t...
ANGELA CARTER I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
JIMMY CARTER I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they do...
JOE CARTER