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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 We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. 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JOHN DONNE Leah: "That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was... STEPHENIE MEYER I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON 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 Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Is There Anybody Out There? PINK FLOYD It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained. QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and... QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... 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BRANDON BOYD I am tapping into a place in you that is unexplored, and very dangerous, but I think essential to th... BRANDON BOYD Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excite... BRANDON BOYD I mean it allowed me to do that which was fantastic because we really get to see the character matur... BRANDON ROUTH I'm not even really attempting to brand myself outside of 'Humans of New York.' I think ... BRANDON STANTON At home, I'm not a rock star. I wear dad-appropriate attire. I drive a truck. And we go out to t... BRANDON FLOWERS Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to produci... BRANDON WEBB The sniper is like a highly skilled surgeon, practicing his craft on the battlefield. BRANDON WEBB I've always felt like an artistic person. I can't draw or paint or sculpt. I never really ha... BRANDON STANTON As I've gotten older, I've wanted to represent Las Vegas more. Represent the Southwest. It... BRANDON FLOWERS Sometimes it is very useful to have a reputation for being a reclusive, amoral jerk. BRANDON SANDERSON I'm not really sure why. But... do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't thi... BRANDON SANDERSON I romanticize. I live with the ghosts of Elvis and Frank Sinatra. It seems so glamorous. They were A... BRANDON FLOWERS He felt a swelling of pride. Ridiculous, of course. He had endangered the kindgdom — how would peo... BRANDON SANDERSON There are five known gyres spinning around in our world's oceans. A gyre is a slowly moving spir... BRANDON BOYD Szeth-son-son-Vallano, Truthless of Shinovar, wore white on the day he was to kill a king […] Whit... BRANDON SANDERSON A lot like Dave Matthews or John Mayer, I kind of stick with the acoustic genre. BRANDON JONES Same old, same old. Nothing special, but he's absolutely ready. BRANDON MACNAUGHT Next weekend is the weekend we have to wrestle perfectly. We didn't wrestle perfectly this weekend, ... BRANDON MACNAUGHT It's one of those things where you don't worry about individual wins and losses, you worry about the... BRANDON MACNAUGHT If it isn't broke, don't fix it. You want to prepare the same. ... I haven't seen any added pressure... BRANDON MACNAUGHT I would assume every coach's ultimate goal is to get a guy to states. I've been fortunate to have a ... BRANDON MACNAUGHT To do it in this section is quite amazing and it hasn't really sunk in yet. To think that's he the f... BRANDON MACNAUGHT Previous studies have measured general pain and heavy backpacks. But, they have not correlated backp... BRANDON MACIAS Even at 10 percent [of body weight], the pressures were still high, and that hasn't been quantified ... BRANDON MACIAS It seems like the right shoulder becomes loaded more. BRANDON MACIAS The backpack should be positioned high on the back. BRANDON MACIAS I had two months of not doing anything except wonder how my arm was going to feel. But I'm back thro... BRANDON LYON