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Ever so welcome, wait for a call"
(West Indian proverb)
CHARMAINE J. FORDE
What a queer planet!" he thought. "It is altogether dry, and altogether pointed, and altogether hars...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY
In starlit nights I saw you,
So cruelly you kissed me.
Your lips a magic world,
Your ...
ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN
The idea is to believe me... but as far as I see the world... to believe is a sin... to trust me one...
DEYTH BANGER
Were you there?”
She shook her head. “No. I was here in Nain having a
child.”
�...
FRANCINE RIVERS
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
The beginning, as the proverb says, is half the whole
ARISTOTLE
The call of God is not the echo of my nature; my affinities and personal temperament are not conside...
OSWALD CHAMBERS
Raw anguish slithers through my brittle bones as the deathly call rots the air. Who murdered you old...
H.S. CROW
Luke used to give me butterflies. Noah spawned mutant pterodactyls.
KATIE MCGARRY
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB
As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like."
CICERO
Nothing is as burdensome as a secret. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Italy, a paradise for horses, hell for women, as the proverb goes
ROBERT BURTON
You scared the shit out of me last night, so forgive me if I don't want to hear fine as an answer."<...
KATIE MCGARRY
Wait." I began to pull off his jacket. "You forgot this."
"Keep it," he said without looking ba...
KATIE MCGARRY
Noah drew me closer to him. "It's okay. I've got you.
KATIE MCGARRY
You know a lot about math," I said. You know a lot about math? What type of statement was that? Righ...
KATIE MCGARRY
I must have killed a lot of cows in a past life for Karma to hate me this much.
KATIE MCGARRY
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all i...
, "THE CALL OF CTHULHU"
As the Chinese proverb goes, 'Real gold does not fear the test of fire.
CHIN-NING CHU
...but prejudices, like odorous bodies, have a double existence both solid and subtle — solid as t...
GEORGE ELIOT
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR.
The voice so sweet, the words so fair, As some soft chime had stroked the air; And though the ...
BEN JONSON
Maybe by the time they were in their Silver Year, Master Rufus would communicate complicated theorie...
CASSANDRA CLARE
...I thought, breaking into a sweat, I'd better call Saul. I owe Kate an apology... Damn damn damn.
MORDECAI RICHLER
You know… the airport is the only place you can walk around with no shoes, a glazed look on your f...
CORIANDER WOODRUFF, THE CALL OF THE SPECTACLED OWL
I've got you. I swear to God, I've got you," said Noah. "Stay with me, Echo."
I wanted to. I wa...
KATIE MCGARRY
Noah?"
A welcome voice - not my mother's, but welcome all the same: Echo. A smile spread across...
KATIE MCGARRY
We are all called to do something in this life. This call is your assignment. You become fulfilled w...
SOTONYE ANGA
It's not the same to talk of bulls as to be in the bullring. -Spanish proverb.
SPANISH PROVERB
May as well be hanged for a sheep as a lamb. English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
The best plan is, as the common proverb has it, to profit by the folly of others
LOPE DE VEGA
I love you enough to never make you choose.
KATIE MCGARRY
It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and ...
ERIC HOFFER
The voices of what I call the radical right have never disappeared. But I think Ann Coulter is prefe...
CHRISTOPHER TRUMBO
Please, Noah, I don't want to do this wrong. Tell me how to make you feel good."
He shifted so ...
KATIE MCGARRY
Not sure how I felt about Antonio and Echo, I linked my fingers with hers. Antonio cocked a surprise...
KATIE MCGARRY
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.
GAELIC PROVERB
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS
Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall no...
BIBLE
As saith the proverb of the ancients, Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked: but mine hand shall not...
BIBLE
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
Noah held my hair away from my face.
KATIE MCGARRY
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB
Is it fair to call The Princess Bride a classic? The storybook story about pirates and princesses, g...
CARY ELWES
Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing...
THE EDGE
Great pity were it if this beneficence of Providence should be marr'd in the ordering, so as to jus...
UNATTRIBUTED AUTHOR
As he bent closer, he realized they were words -- words his wife had carved into the cave ice with t...
HOLLY BLACK
When (the bat) gets an echo back, it uses features of the echo to tell how far away the bug is.
CYNTHIA MOSS
'Twas whispered in Heaven, 'twas muttered in hell, And echo caught faintly the sound as it fell
CATHERINE MARIA FANSHAWE
Be an echo of peace not an echo of bullets.
DEBASISH MRIDHA
Regarding myself as a mere echo,
Cave-like, unintelligible and nocturnal . . .
ANNA AKHMATOVA
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches English Proverb
ENGLISH PROVERB
The hardest thing is the idea. Ideas come from somewhere but as far as we know they come from nowher...
IAN HUNTER
Let echo, too, perform her part, Prolonging every note with art; And in a low expiring strain,...
JOSEPH ADDISON
Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell, By slow Meander's mar...
JOHN MILTON
The melancholy ghosts of dead renown, Whispering faint echoes of the world's applause.
EDWARD YOUNG
What would it profit thee to be the first Of echoes, tho thy tongue should live forever, A thi...
FREDERICK TENNYSON
Our echoes roll from soul to soul, And grow for ever and for ever. Blow, bugle, blow, set the ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
And a million horrible bellowing echoes broke From the red-ribb'd hollow behind the wood, And ...
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
I heard . . . . . . the great echo flap And buffet round the hills from bluff to bluff.
LORD ALFRED TENNYSON
Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT
Lost Echo sits amid the voiceless mountains, And feeds her grief.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The birds chaunt melody on every bush, The snake lies rolled in the cheerful sun, The green le...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
But her voice is still living immortal, The same you have frequently heard, In your rambles in...
J.G. SAXE
I came to the place of my birth and cried: "The friends of my youth, where are they?"--and an echo...
SAMUEL ROGERS
Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance. . . . . And, when the echoes had ceased, ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
Echo waits with art and care And will the faults of song repair.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON
Even Echo speaks not on these radiant moors. - Barry Cornwall (pseudonym of Bryan Waller Proct...
BARRY CORNWALL (PSEUDONYM OF BRYAN WALLER PROCTER)
How sweet the answer Echo makes To music at night, When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes, ...
THOMAS MOORE
Hark! to the hurried question of Despair "Where is my child?"--An echo answers-- "Where?"
LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON)
Like--but oh! how different!
WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
And more than echoes talk along the walls.
ALEXANDER POPE
Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty.
GEORGE ELIOT (PSEUDONYM OF MARY ANN EVANS CROSS)
The heart that loves is always young. -Greek Proverb.
GREEK PROVERB
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. -Anonymous (Greek Proverb).
GREEK PROVERB
A good rest is half the work. -Yugoslav Proverb.
YUGOSLAV PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB
Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illu...
JOHN KEATS
One thing God has been showing me is that I'm not called to save the world, just to point those He p...
J.R. RIM
Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.
LEIGH BARDUGO
Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment." (Quoting an old adage)
ELIZABETH GILBERT
An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In Shoshone, there's a saying. It's a long one, and it doesn't have an English equivalent, so bear w...
ROSE CHRISTO
Always borrow money from a pessimist. He won't expect it back.
OSCAR WILDE
When someone is counting out
gold for you, don't look at your hands,
or the gold. Look at ...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI
It's so Greg can be the chief integrator, and as I call him, the chief plumber.
SOL TRUJILLO
No blasphemy harms Islam and Muslims so much as the call for murdering a writer
NAGUIB MAHFOUZ
in motion be like water... at rest, like a mirror. resound like the echo; be subtle, as though none...
TAO SAYING
Soon the maroon-throated howls would echo back from the other trees, father down the beach, until th...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
It's not about what it is, it's about what it can become.
DR. SEUSS
And so castles made of sand fall in the sea, eventually.
JIMI HENDRIX
As the Spanish proverb says, He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealt...
SAMUEL JOHNSON

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