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... Miss Bingley was left to the satisfaction of having forced him to say what gave no one any pain but herself.


Seth Grahame-Smith

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DEYTH BANGER Suicide thought is a negative force that needs to be overcome with a positive force,positive thinkin...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is an option for the unwise,but for the wise suicide has got no room to be given an option.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Suicide is never the solution to life's problems but hope.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) When the mind is filled with positivity the thoughts of suicide becomes virtually non existing.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) She tried to remind herself that beauty was only skin deep, but that didn't offer any helpful excuse...
JULIA QUINN I miss you every now and then but then I remind myself that I wasn't the one that gave up and left, ...
MAHMOUD EL HALLAB We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON Her [Mrs Croft's] manners were open, easy, and decided, like one who had no distrust of herself, and...
JANE AUSTEN She was as one who, in madness, was resolute to throw herself from a precipice, but to whom some rem...
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Left alone, Miss Verney felt so old, lonely and helpless that she began to cry. No builder would tac...
JEAN RHYS When Friedan came to Smith in the fall of 1938 from a provincial town in Illinois, she was not very ...
DANIEL HOROWITZ Talking won't change it. But sometimes it was what she wanted most, to tell someone; often, though, ...
MELISSA MARR I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was t...
ROMAN PAYNE The taxpayer paid between $5000 and $10,000 to help him elude capture -- what a disgrace -- no one f...
DAVID GARRETT The taxpayer paid between $5000 and $10,000 to help him elude capture ? what a disgrace ? no one for...
DAVID GARRETT He was going to hurt the people he hated, but inside he didn't feel any real sense of satisfaction. ...
RICCARDO BRUNI I can't say enough about having Seth healthy again. He throws the ball well and you can't blitz him,...
BRANDON TYLER There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities fa...
RACHEL FIELD She craved a family, not having had enough of one to understand what a pain in the ass it was.
MAILE MELOY You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
HUSTON SMITH I was in love and love died and the pain you've left isn't pain I can see myself having the strength...
ADAM SILVERA Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy.
MELISSA MARR No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH No one but a fool would measure their satisfaction by what the world thinks of it.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH What if she was supposed to be a painter, but no one ever gave her a brush?
ADI ALSAID Anna had been preparing herself for this meeting, had thought what she would say to him, but she did...
LEO TOLSTOY I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. The...
YANN MARTEL Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, b...
YANN MARTEL Or perhaps a widow found him and took him in: brought him an easy chair, changed his sweater every m...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER It was a decision forced by the minority. But we didn't want to exclude any students, no matter how ...
BOB HETLER She had given him all she had - but what was it compared to the other gifts life held for him? She u...
EDITH WHARTON Loneliness gave me things that no one did. It gave me pain, It gave me strength to gather myself and...
SRINIVAS SHENOY I’ve stopped talking because there’s really nothing left to say and there’s this piercing sort...
SUZANNE COLLINS A gentleman can hardly continue to sit,' he explained, in his serenest and most level voice, 'when h...
ELIZABETH MARIE POPE A mighty pain to love it is, and 'tis a pain that pain to miss; but of all the pains, the greatest p...
ABRAHAM COWLEY If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Never was heard such a terrible curse ! ! / But what gave rise / To no little surprise, / Nobody see...
REV. R. H. BARHAM She wasn’t afraid of difficulties; what frightened her was being forced to choose one particular p...
PAULO COELHO You will never change, unless you are honest with yourself or you are forced to be authentic by some...
SHANNON L. ALDER Nobody accused him of forcing anyone to have sex. There was no evidence he forced anybody to do anyt...
JULIAN MACK You'd think (losing his job and degree for having made false claims as a researcher) would be a less...
DOROTHY L. SAYERS The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO I don’t know what message to send to Bran. Help him Tyrion.”
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GEORGE R.R. MARTIN How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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LEWIS CARROLL When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY He got hit in the jaw and it hurt all the way up to his ear. He was having some pain and some headac...
DOUG LUKE The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion fr...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI That one hit to left field got him. He gave up one, but that's two games in a row he's come out and ...
ROBBIE BENNETT I have an inner satisfaction of having done what I thought was right at the time which I thought was...
A. PHILIP RANDOLPH When I was going through a tough phase in a training camp, I totally hated it. When it came to the l...
ZENG HAN JUN I did miss having a shower, particularly to clean my hair up. But otherwise what we did onboard was ...
BILL SHEPHERD PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL
NATALIE URQUIETA You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've...
ALEKSANDR SOLZHENITSYN That was what counted, she told herself: those unexpected moments of appreciation, unanticipated gli...
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH You don't lose yourself being selfless—you find yourself.
SETH ADAM SMITH I am like a person whose hands were kept numb, without sensation from the first moment of awareness ...
FRANK HERBERT He probably gave away 55 zucchini last year. The garden was huge. It was higher than him. Even if he...
LUCILLE MANCKE I actually pretended to be a journalist, ... John's publicist was very nice, but he did say, 'John i...
MADELEINE STOWE No author ever drew a character, consistent to human nature, but what he was forced to ascribe to i...
EDWARD GEORGE EARLE LYTTON BULWER-LYTTON, FIRST BARON LYTTON You know, Hillary Clinton gives of herself. Princess Diana gave of herself. But they are not saints.
EDWARD JAMES OLMOS Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD What happened with Hurricane Katrina was the American electorate was forced to look at what lay behi...
SUSAN FALUDI It was disappointing to say the least. (Seth) was dominant on top, he was dominant on the bottom, an...
ERIC SWENSEN A sharp pain in her chest became more intoxicating with each breath she took. There it was. The reas...
COURTNEY GIARDINA We absolutely miss him. He is crucial to what we do. When you get used to having someone like that a...
GILBERT ARENAS Nothing could be any worse than having to turn to your friends, your colleagues and your loved ones ...
STEVE BACKLEY The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion fr...
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER The only furniture in the dank space was a flimsy cot. Water dripped steadily in one corner. A hole ...
BRANDON MULL Compared to dancing, films seemed to me to be the work of lay bums. There was no physical pain; it w...
VICTORIA ABRIL I mean, most parents would be proud of a kid like that - good-lookin' and smart and everything, but ...
S.E. HINTON Edward knew what it was like to say over and over again the names of those you had left behind. He k...
KATE DICAMILLO Tiger Lily made an attempt at a smile. After having felt the need to glower at other children for mo...
JODI LYNN ANDERSON We're going to miss Damon. He was a great shooter. . . . He got what he wanted, but he gave up a lot...
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no...
C.S. LEWIS I left Google X. All the senior women have left Google X. I was the last to make it - I was, to be f...
MARY LOU JEPSEN And there had to be a dagger thrust in the heart of the left to tell them that you are no longer gon...
JULIUS ROSENBERG Steve Smith had a great year, no question. Even more so when you think that every team has it on the...
TOM COUGHLIN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... Polaris often remarks to Sol that Sirius loses his temper much less often these days. But the one su...
DIANA WYNNE JONES I think we can keep him, ... Is it going to be easy? No. But I know Brad wants to be here long term....
JAY FEASTER No one knew what Rodney King had done beforehand to be stopped. No one realized that he was a parole...
DARYL GATES He's dodging any real interviews. This wasn't broadcast live. It was taped and it gave him the oppor...
CHARLIE BROWN I was a big troublemaker in the group. I put them through a lot of pain, but as much as I gave to th...
DEE DEE RAMONE Was there any basis for preferring any one sufficient hypothesis over another? When you simply did n...
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SETH GODIN At the age of four, you were an artist. And at seven, you were a poet.
SETH GODIN The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following...
SETH GODIN True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will...
SETH BROWN God save us from people who mean well.
VIKRAM SETH If it looks like shit, smells like shit, and feels like shit, you don't have to actually eat it to k...
SETH EISENBERG Rules are just helpful guidelines for stupid people who can't make up their own minds.
SETH HOFFMAN Letting your customers set your standards is a dangerous game, because the race to the bottom is pre...
SETH GODIN And it turns out that tribes, not money, not factories, that can change our world, that can change p...
SETH GODIN Admittedly, it would take industrial-grade chutzpah and a massive dose of malevolence for anyone to ...
SETH SHOSTAK When I graduated high school, nearly a half-million people subscribed to 'Popular Electronics...
SETH SHOSTAK It's hard to imagine anything more interesting than learning how we're woven into the enormo...
SETH SHOSTAK My styles range quite a bit. I go for an all-around kind of fan. Never wanted to be the dude that co...
SETH ROLLINS Realism hasn't fallen out of favor with most people, who are interested in people's lives ra...
VIKRAM SETH Today's voguish threats, including climate change, population growth, massive war, and resource ...
SETH SHOSTAK It's worth noting that invoking God as the entity who set our universe in motion isn't contr...
SETH SHOSTAK The danger of the Web is that you can go from idea to public announcement in under ten minutes.
SETH GODIN I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designer...
SETH GREEN At one point, I was hell-bent on being a Disney animator, and sort of got over that in college and w...
SETH MACFARLANE A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in o...
SETH SHOSTAK Working with Al Pacino was an amazing experience. He's such an amazing guy. He's an incredib...
SETH NUMRICH I don't make the best movies in the world, but at times, I do feel like I'm adding something...
SETH ROGEN Are two eyes, four appendages and an upright posture really essential for any creature that can ace ...
SETH SHOSTAK For just a few dollars a dose, vaccines save lives and help reduce poverty. Unlike medical treatment...
SETH BERKLEY The thing to keep in mind is that we're still in the very early days when it comes to the search...
SETH SHOSTAK 'What was there before the Big Bang?' That's a question that both kids and adults love t...
SETH SHOSTAK The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense...
SETH LOW You can't stop wars to build tertiary teaching hospitals, but you can say, 'Let's stop f...
SETH BERKLEY I love science, and I believe in it. I have a faith that science can solve problems and make the wor...
SETH BERKLEY When it comes to providing aid, developing innovations, and making bold steps that change the course...
SETH BERKLEY Investments in immunization yield a rate of return on a par with educating our children - and higher...
SETH BERKLEY History will not judge HIV/AIDS kindly... the harshest words will be reserved for how the world resp...
SETH BERKLEY I was a serial monogamist.
SETH BERKLEY In large part, thanks to widespread immunization, the number of young children dying each year has d...
SETH BERKLEY I wish we could have state-of-the-art hospitals in every corner of the earth... but realistically, i...
SETH BERKLEY We've actually eliminated Type II polio in the world, at least as far as we can tell.
SETH BERKLEY Now, you might think of flu as just a really bad cold, but it can be a death sentence. Every year, 3...
SETH BERKLEY Healthy children are more likely to attend school and are better able to learn. Healthy workers are ...
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