John Banville
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY STEPHEN CHBOSKY Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The words you can’t find, you borrow.GABRIELLE ZEVIN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON MARK TWAIN MARK TWAIN Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly... GARY F EVANS... DOUGLAS COUPLAND We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Funerals are for the living. If we have not done for the dead while they were yet in flesh, it is to... ROELIF COE BRINKERHOFF I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M E. LOCKHART What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar... T.J. KLUNE ED HOWE When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... CRAIG GROESCHEL EAMON DE VALERA JUVENAL (DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENAL) It took a little while for our staff to see who played well together. Then we played loose and aggre... MIKE MCKENZIE LIBBA BRAY NEIL GAIMAN PETER MCWILLIAMS CHARLES BUKOWSKI RALPH WALDO EMERSON ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Then you will die, but only for a little while. JOSEPH FINK We don't do anything until there's a crisis, and then we try to react to it and it's always too litt... DUANE GUBLER We are in an environment where there are a lot of stay at home moms, and we don't really have a let ... GAYLE WESTAPHER They underestimated us to start the game, which, in all honesty, is rightly so when you're playing u... BETH COMBS When the train is completed that will be the lure. So what do we do until then? We can't let it drop... CANDY DUNCAN Negative programming. We write the programs. And we can rewrite the programs. If we drop the negativ... HOWARD MANN G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG GEORG CHRISTOPH LICHTENBERG Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN DEYTH BANGER DOUGLAS COUPLAND CRAIG GROESCHEL We remember nothing. Maybe for a year or two. Maybe most of a life, if we live. Maybe. But then we w... RICHARD FLANAGAN DENNIS MILLER Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER Basically we are descended from a long line of successful flirts and it is hard-wired into our brain... KATE FOX F. SCOTT FITZGERALD F. SCOTT FITZGERALD HELEN P. BLAVATSKY We never have good third quarters. We just came out so nonchalant and so relaxed. Then it takes us a... CHARLOTTE JONES JOSé SARAMAGO We make our decisions, and then our decisions turn around and make us. F.W. BOREHAM JOHN NEWTON Something like another wave of despair crashes into me. "I'm so heavy." I blink and a tear slides do... JOLENE PERRY It is totally different from a normal school day and they try to keep things as normal as possible u... KIRK LEWIS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD And when I saw you kissing that girlKATE NASH JOHN NEWTON JOSE MOURINHO EPICURUS HENRY MILLER As we moved along in a little procession, I was delighted with the illumination of the streets. So m... MARY ANTIN ELVIS COSTELLO It wasn't pretty, but it was need win. It is difficult to play on such a small field with so much wi... ERIC SIMS PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN We must constantly remind ourselves that we are the image and likeness of God SOTONYE ANGA SOURCE UNKNOWN HENRY CLOUD When we die our money, fame, and honors will be meaningless. We own nothing in this world. Everythin... MICHAEL HUFFINGTON ANTHONY T. HINCKS This is a big win for us and boosts our confidence as we near the playoffs. We have a big game with ... ANDY MACDONALD KARL BARTH PAUL AUSTER SUZY KASSEM JOHN NEWTON You certainly believe in the power of love. And throughout the series, you see how love shows itself... MOUTASEM ALGHARATI A considerable percentage of the people we meet on the street are people who are empty inside, that ... GEORGE GURDJIEFF We can’t turn our true selves off and on situationally and expect them to carry and sustain us. Ra... S. KELLEY HARRELL Though I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with
me, for every man is amirror. We see... KIRSTEN ZAMBUCKA PHILIP PULLMAN It was playoffs and we were a little nervous. I think that's why we got off to the slow start and th... LISA HUTTON We'll see some simplistic players for a while, who'll then get into more complicated things ... BILLY SHEEHAN The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN How we diminished her and in turn ourselves. Turned parts of her body into heavy burdens to carry. W... RION AMILCAR SCOTT Who doesn't enjoy a little gardening? As we plant the seeds and remove the weeds we reap a wonderful... LINDSEY RIETZSCH If we must fight, then let the American People fight and die Bravely with honor, dignity, & pride an... DWIGHT W. HAYES We were under 10 late in the third quarter and down just 10 after three. Then came that spread. We j... MIKE ANGEL AKIROQ BROST DEYTH BANGER DEYTH BANGER When we have a true sense of what psychology is we can then see why it gives us an insight not only ... GARY F EVANS... KARL BARTH WILLIAM HAZLITT BOBBY JONES SUNDAY ADELAJA We started out a little slow, so in the second half we had to focus on defense and getting into tran... JOE LOGAN It worked for a little while. We slowed every thing down, but it was too hard to hold onto the ball ... JAKE WALLS
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So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... 
The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead -- and not then ... 
We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead / and not then u... 
It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... 
She is sugar, curiosity, and rain. 
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we n... 
If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack. 
We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead... 
And though you duck them ne'er so long,
Not one salt drop e'er wets their tongue;
On eagles' w... 
But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can ... 
Fiction allows us to slide into these other heads, these other places, and look out through other ey... 
While goals are chosen, a purpose is discovered. Our purpose is something we have been doing all alo... 
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First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimina... 
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We are this fucking stick in the end... 
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Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It elud... 
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Oh, I said 'I'm so happy, I could die.'
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Jews have God's promise and if we Christians have it, too, then it is only as those chosen with them... 
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In the end, life is about collecting experiences and looking for the lesson and blessing in each one... 
You are so young, Lyra, too young to understand this, but I shall tell you anyway and you'll underst... 
Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer. 
Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba... 
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To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us. 
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We need to carry the burden of our people and nation and have compassion on the future generations 
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The past beats inside me like a second heart. 
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Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s... 
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war... 
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Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute. 
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself. 
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How beautiful the leaves grow old. How full of light and color are their last days. 
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Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. 
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Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness. 
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? 
Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar. 
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