Beauty, extreme yet ambiguously available; this very roughly, was what Nicola's entrance to the Black Cross had said to Keith. But he didn't know the nature -- he didn't know the brand -- of the availability.
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Related Is it possible that you know what he was strangled with and you just didnt want to tell me? JOHN SHORT There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for ones own safety i... JOSEPH HELLER Dr Strauss said I had something that was very good. He said I had a good motor-vation. I never ever ... DANIEL KEYES The same way i could live when I didnt know you, I can live without you after letting you go, But th... DALEEN IRSHAID Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... And that leaves me with the belief that miracles, no matter how inexplicable or unbelievable, are re... NICHOLAS SPARKS [The late ABC anchor Peter Jennings] really took me under his wing, ... I was able to develop streng... DAN HARRIS The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now ~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine." The Q... LEWIS CARROLL Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY i didnt understand why my past realationship were so bad now i know so when we meet we had something... WOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work! DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world... GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist. APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ... GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g... SIMI GREWAL Work in me more profound and abiding repentance; Give me the fullness of godly grief, that tre... ARTHUR BENNETT Everything hinges on the Christ of the cross. The fact of the cross is the axiom of theological thou... KAZOH KITAMORI Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth) ELVIS PRESLEY May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH A crook and crafty rules the place where the majority of the population is either hypocrites or fool... ANUJ SOMANY Nature’s law is such that it metes out its justice to everyone as they deserve by giving each pers... ANUJ SOMANY Every living being, from ants to whales, has a right to live and die in accordance with the law of t... CHANDRABABU V.S. Any change one effect on his natural being with a purpose would definitely end up revealing his hypo... CHANDRABABU V.S. I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re... JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM You said that we would stay forever, the only problem was that you later walked away from me and did... SANDIBEL DIAZ He said, 'Yeah, let's do it,' ... Then he said, 'You should ask Keith [Richards].' I didn't want to ... TIM RIES The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward. ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da... VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you. KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l... MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ... DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o... DOUGLAS ADAMS If you dont love somebody, it gets annoying if they tell you what to do or what to feel. When you lo... DONALD MILLER Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards. NICHOLAS SPARKS WOW DID I JUST SEE LIL B? THE MYTH ?? THE AMERICAN HERO AND LEGEND? WORLD WIDE LEGEND! I ... BRANDON MCCARTNEY We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON We owe all to Jesus crucified. What is your life, my brethren, but the cross? Whence comes the bread... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti... FENNEL HUDSON The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON We knew it was going to be difficult to get to the moon. We didn't know how difficult. ALAN BEAN PEACE IS THE OBJECTIVE TO WAR, BUT THE BLOOD RUNNETH STILL NATALIE URQUIETA Another year is ending, but something is pending ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The only question that got any traction was when he asked Martin what he did. Martin tersely replied... SCOTT MEYER This boy," he said, indicating the paintings with one sweep of his arms, "was romantic. He thought t... MARY BALOGH The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment. JOHN MURRAY Astriola. That IS demon pox. You had evidence that demon pox existed and you didnt mention it to me!... CASSANDRA CLARE until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH What is called poetic insight is the gift of discerning, in this sphere of strangely-mingled element... NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE I wondered how it could be that people could love God and hate one another. JULIE ORRINGER So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we... LAUREN MYRACLE Don't let fear cripple you and keep you from trying new things, changing things, exploring and livin... AKIROQ BROST I wasn't a cheerleader or in the choir. I didnt have loads of friends. GWEN STEFANI She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO There was a problem and that was that. Why didnt make a fiddlers fuck. HUBERT SELBY JR. I don't define lust as anything evil or nasty. Lust as defined by me, is the feeling of desire: a de... C. JOYBELL C. Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t... JEANIENE FROST More than anything, he wanted to return to the house with the same look of peace that he'd seen on P... NICHOLAS SPARKS He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be. CRAIG GROESCHEL That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left. R.J. SCOTT Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Beautify your breath – beautify your life. AMIT RAY - Mrzim sve što je odricanje! - Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ... DOBRICA ĆOSIć In the beginning the Universe was created. This had made many people very angry and has been wi... DOUGLAS ADAMS There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terr... DOUGLAS ADAMS To make one mistake, and then fix it. It shows, a sign that you have understood the lesson. DEYTH BANGER She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s... ELIZABETH WINDER Boring people live boring lives. HABEEB AKANDE Can I buy you a drink when you get off?" "I don't drink. Alcohol is bad for my legs." ERIC JEROME DICKEY He'd never forget what Naasir had said to him when Dmitri yelled that he didn't intend to bury anoth... NALINI SINGH Seeking survival, hostile, hidden from sight, Deliciously flavoured - juicy, sweet bite, E... CLAUDIA BAKKER He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door. “Ri... JEANIENE FROST My mother didn’t have a heart, Kreacher,” Sirius snapped. "She kept herself alive out of pure sp... J.K. ROWLING We had a tough match with Napa and the girls came back on short notice. The singles players played e... GREG DAVIS Somehow in the confines in his mind, he started putting together this dream, which is how he describ... BILL FERGUSON god, can you imagine getting married at nineteen?" miranda asked. "when i was nineteen i didnt even ... DIANNE SYLVAN He didn’t know what he was going to — but it had to be better than what he was leaving behind. J.K. ROWLING Judge not lest ye be judged. THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi... THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Entrepreneur, you're either raising the bar of excellence or, you're exhaling at the bar which is ex... ONYI ANYADO Be kind. We never know what people are going through. Give grace and mercy because one day your circ... GERMANY KENT Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto marty... JOHN OWEN Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is n... JOHN OWEN Creativity is not just thinking outside the box but living outside it. VICTOR SHAMAS The cross is not a sign of the church's quiet, suffering submission to the powers-that-be, but rathe... STANLEY HAUERWAS Just as Christian came up to the Cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, fell from off his ... JOHN BUNYAN Love is a vicarious principle. A mother suffers for and with her sick child, as a patriot suffers fo... FULTON J. SHEEN The rules only applied to people who couldn’t afford different rules. CAMERON STRACHER He wanted me to know what he had done. First of all, he said he committed a violation. Secondly, he ... ANDY GEIGER [Earlier, he had spoken excitedly about the injection of cash he is expecting for next season and of... MARTIN O'NEILL I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this.... DONALD MILLER this sounds a little simple, but I think if we didnt know illness we wouldnt really feel the exhilir... PRISCILLA WARNER Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy p... ESTHER DALSENO
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MARTIN HEIDEGGER Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former -... MARTIN HEIDEGGER Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. MARTIN HEIDEGGER Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? MARTIN HEIDEGGER Time is not a thing, thus nothing which is, and yet it remains constant in its passing away without ... MARTIN HEIDEGGER We name time when we say: every thing has its time. This means: everything which actually is, every ... MARTIN HEIDEGGER Language is the house of the truth of Being. MARTIN HEIDEGGER The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being. MARTIN HEIDEGGER We do not say: Being is, time is, but rather: there is Being and there is time. MARTIN HEIDEGGER The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. MARTIN HEIDEGGER There are two kinds of power you have to fight. The first is the money, and that's just our syst... 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