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Being productive. Ugh. It's such a human concept. It implies you have limited time (LOL) and have to work hard to make something happen (double LOL).


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Dear LOL, thank you for being there for me all those times I never had something else to say.
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RICK RIORDAN Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK Me: For the first time in life, things seem to be getting better. :)
Life: LOL, give me a secon...
ANONYMOUS So you can be 'fantastic' or 'elastic' but can you ever be both lol??
AMBER J. 'LOL' is one of several texting expressions that convey nuance in a system where you don'...
JOHN MCWHORTER Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't...
ECKHART TOLLE I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't giv...
TAMMY WOOSTER I have moved on from the hurt of my father and have accepted his sperm of life as his only positive ...
NERISSA IRVING You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL For you, I would swim across the ocean. LOL, just kidding, there are sharks in there.
ANONYMOUS Wylan looked as if he was ready to wet himself. Helvar appeared grim as always. Jesper just grinned ...
LEIGH BARDUGO Archer! Let us fetch a spot of tea, old boy!
RACHEL HAWKINS You know, you're kind of squeamish for such a lethal person
SUZANNE COLLINS Let's say you have an ax. Just a cheap one, from Home Depot. On one bitter winter day, you use said ...
DAVID WONG I think Im going to run for President when I'm 35. Black, Women, and long locs...Lord help them. I w...
NERISSA IRVING You have to work hard, especially being short and people saying I can't make it,
JAMEER NELSON Make a commitment and work hard now. You will have all the time to party and relax after u have done...
HIKARI A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung...
PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE My mother worked hard for a long time and now I work hard to make sure that she doesn't have to work...
JOHN AVERY Ladies,Please dress how you would like to be approached and talked to. Don't dress like a hoe and ex...
UNKNOWN To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY FE + C is steel. U + I is love.
JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN There is only 1 potter! Don't let anyone else mold you but GOD! (You might end up as an ashtray...lo...
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III You have to work at it to make things happen. It is serious but fun at the same time.
CARRIE BURGGRAF * it makes me laugh when you see me and you pretend we boys but if you were driving and see me waiti...
EDISON PATRICK AMADO it makes me laugh when you see me and you pretend we boys but if you were driving and see me waiting...
EDISON PATRICK AMADO Interviewer: So. Tell me about your mother.
Ezra: You're taping this, right?
Interviewer: ...
AMIE KAUFMAN I cannot, for the life of me, remember what we were just conversing about! Alas. I will forever reme...
SARA WOLF How did you find me? If you hacked into the Club’s computer to look up my appointments - "
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L.B. GREGG Izzy was utterly convinced. Never mind Arabian horses, African cheetahs. No creature in the world co...
TESSA DARE LET THE GAY BEGI- I MEAN GAMES BEGIN!
LEVIATHAN Was that my voice? Really? I sounded like a five-year-old girl with a smoking problem.
KIERA CASS Not everyone has the time to be normal.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-f...
DAVID AXELROD Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON I find it funny when people try to brag about being younger than me...like having lived less is an a...
MICHELLE M. PILLOW My doctor said I dont use the same side of the brain everyone else uses. lol.. Im insane laawwwwdd ....
NERISSA IRVING As a spirit having a human experience, you can choose to not merely exist but to be fully conscious ...
JAMES VAN PRAAGH Any time you have loose ballots, you have to worry about shenanigans. It's a shame such a hard-fough...
DAVID AXELROD I thought you'd be interested in these things as a government man. Ain't you mixed up in the prices ...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Rick and I had to work hard to make everyone believe what we were doing was going to come to success...
BOB AKINS Don't Just Let it Happen, Make it Happen!
JUAN A. JIMENEZ For a long time, I thought it was all down to dedication, hard work, and visualising doing well - th...
KATARINA JOHNSON-THOMPSON When you have a chance, you've got take it, you can't just wait around for something to happen. You'...
SCOTT PODSEDNIK Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN When I'm explaining something to you, if I'm being long-winded, and twisty in a non-producti...
GEORGE SAUNDERS If you see a wonderful archaic Greek marble object in a museum, it's not only that it's beau...
MICHAEL STEINHARDT You have to make it happen.
DENIS DIDEROT I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w...
C. JOYBELL C. If you want something, you can't wait for someone to make it happen for you.
JON HUERTAS Why be greedy when you can have it all.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It is not enough to hope for something to happen and throw it into the universe. You, too, must also...
M.B. DALLOCCHIO Whenever I'm on my computer, I don't type 'lol'. I type 'lqtm' - laugh quiet...
DEMETRI MARTIN O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN Believe. Have faith. Don't stand in your own way. If you don't believe in yourself, a positive outco...
AKIROQ BROST Your time is limited, make the best of the time you have!
LULU MARES God is dead, and we have killed him, but then he respawned and pwned us all.
NIETZSCHERATOR Y'all got your heads tucked so far up your rears, she's petrified the kid's gonna need a shrink befo...
ADDISON MOORE I’ve been sick for so long I don’t
remember a time when I wasn’t.
ALISON G. BAILEY Because you should always do something on a spaceship if you can…
JOSS WHEDON I can't believe you just did that! Are you crazy?"
I gripped the steering wheel tighter. "Why d...
JANETTE RALLISON I will get your some clothes, a sword, and your very own assassin to join you on your quest."
<...
QUINN LOFTIS I work so hard to make that sure I'm successful. If you're positive and really excited and e...
SHAWN MENDES To be productive, you have to stop being absent-minded
SUNDAY ADELAJA Lol.. he said, "Nerissa what religion do you practice?" I said, " The one where I breathe in Oxygen ...
NERISSA IRVING When you have to earmark human and monetary resources for such a long time, it starts to hinder your...
RATAN TATA LOL is rarely OL, or even really L. A real out-loud laugh - not the forced social variety, which is ...
MARY ROACH It's so hard being goth. You have to have a bad time everywhere.
CLINT CATALYST Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD I have a hard time waiting for things to happen.
ZOE LISTER-JONES If you want to be good at something, you really have to work at it every single day. You have to wor...
MATT MULLENWEG I think facebook should not have a dislike button because people will definitely use it for wrong pu...
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER It's been a long time since we lost to them. I believe the last time was in 1998. They're a good tea...
BRAD BUSH If you keep waiting for the right time, it may never happen. Sometimes you have to make the most of ...
PRIYA ARDIS It doesn't make any difference what political party you belong to, ... I just called and said, Rick,...
JOE MANCHIN We had limited opportunities in the second half. We had to make something happen on only a few chanc...
EMILY COCHRAN A show is exhausting when it stinks. It's exhausting when you have to work overtime to make some...
PATTI LUPONE Human beings have to create hope. They have to. You have to have something you hold onto as being a ...
LESLEY ANN WARREN Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH I didn't answer, but, please—nothing is obvious with boys. For such simple creatures, they are qui...
RICK RIORDAN You have to make it happen.
JOE GREENE Its hard to have a decent family life and advance at work,
ADAM COHEN You may need an additional money to make things happen and have it, but you can have an additional t...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert w...
DARYNDA JONES I hadn't said goodbye. It had been easier, like always, to just disappear, sparing myself the messy ...
SARAH DESSEN For you to lead a more productive, happier and fulfilled life you have to become comfortable about b...
ANIL GUPTA I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is rapidly losing its understanding of bei...
JOHN TRUDELL We were being aggressive and trying to make things happen, and it just didn't work out. We talked ab...
DONNA PROCTOR You are all made of real poop.
ANNE FRANK Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and...
DONALD TRUMP I can scarcely stand to have a manicure. I have to have them because you don't want to look like...
LAURA LINNEY If you really want something you can figure out how to make it happen.
CHER There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
DAVID MAMET Sometimes if you want something badly enough, you can make it happen. If you miss someone so despera...
JENNY DOWNHAM The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized pe...
GEORGE F. KENNAN We work really hard. If you don't have fun and humor in this field, then you struggle to make it.
ELLEN LOCKE What's for you isn't just going to happen, you have to make it happen
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They tell me cool stuff."
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- Гррр! - обади...
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...
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RICK RIORDAN Even strength must bow to wisdom sometimes.
RICK RIORDAN Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
RICK RIORDAN If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.
RICK RIORDAN She'd also called me brave...unless she was talking to the catfish.
RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers ...
RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see.
RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh...
RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th...
RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i...
RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.
RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a...
RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace....
RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’
‘How can you even talk to me like t...
RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?"

He shrugged. "Techn...
RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.
RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile....
RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend...
RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro...
RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol...
RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind...
RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla...
RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand...
RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga...
RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin...
RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
RICK RIORDAN How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between...
RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a...
RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion.The Tita...
RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.”
Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i...
RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc...
RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!
RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s...
RICK RIORDAN