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Diana Gabaldon

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DIANA GABALDON All right you bloody Scottish bastard, lets see how stubborn you really are.
DIANA GABALDON When you win nothing hurts.
JOE NAMATH When you win, nothing hurts.
JOE NAMATH It was nothing. Right after that happened he looked at me and said, 'That didn't hurt me. I just did...
GEORGES LARAQUE Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the...
JENNIFER ELISABETH He was using me. When he cast me in Sideways I was nothing but a vessel.
THOMAS HADEN CHURCH We did nothing. He never called me.
JOE LINTA I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth muc...
BIBLE When he was a child, he was sexually assaulted. After everything he has been through, nothing surpri...
CATHY MURPHY I knew he was trying to hit me, ... I asked the umpire to do something about it, but he did nothing....
ANDY SLYKE I knew he was trying to hit me, ... I asked the umpire to do something about it, but he did nothing....
ANDY VAN SLYKE It hurts when I can see my daughter, and there's nothing wrong with her, and him wanting to get outs...
CANDY EVERETT Nothing hurts like a hostile farewell.
REGINA JENNINGS Nothing he said was untrue to me,
SUSAN MCDOUGAL When she had been married a little while, she concluded that love was half a longing of a kind that ...
MARILYNNE ROBINSON Even though he got in trouble, nothing he did was violent.
DENNIS LEE There are things that I canna tell you, at least not yet. And I'll ask nothing of ye that ye canna g...
DIANA GABALDON He did nothing wrong. He was just a victim of retaliation for reporting a crime.
STACY FLORES There's no room for me in your world;
It's time I stopped pretending.
But nothing hurts me...
MARGO T. ROSE It's a lot of pressure right now, guys, come on. Nothing happened. I just skated today perfect and d...
EVGENI PLUSHENKO There's nothing happy about love at all!! I would rather have not known real love... if it hurts thi...
CHITOSE YAGAMI That to me was the most poignant part of Diana's wedding; as she was walking up the aisle and he...
BRUCE OLDFIELD Remember, nothing hurts worse than pain.
SOURCE UNKNOWN There was nothing more infuriating than when a person like Dr. Madsen was right.
SCOTT MEYER Goodbye, Hari, my love. Remember always--all you did for me.”
           
-I...
ISAAC ASIMOV Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ...
DIANA GABALDON Bitterness and hatred do not reside here. I feel nothing but love for you. And throughout it all, no...
TIFFANY - ANGèLE EATON Nothing is enough that doesn't come with peace of mind. Nothing is enough that doesn't come with lov...
TRACY DEEBS When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
DIANA GABALDON If I were marooned here till it suited my overbearing, domineering, pig-headed jackass of a husband ...
DIANA GABALDON And what's wrong wi' the way ye smell?' he said heatedly. 'At least ye smelt like a woman, not a dam...
DIANA GABALDON Nothing hurts you unless you let it.
JENNIFER LYNN BARNES The officers did the right thing. Boundary lines mean nothing when an officer needs assistance. Ther...
KELLY BARAGA It is midnight in the hard part of town. The mask is itching like it always does. The ragged end of ...
STEVE VERNON Nothing hurts a new truth more than an old error
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE When I moved here, he bought me a bed. Was that from Costco?
ANDY MILONAKIS I thought the force of my wanting must wake ye, surely. And then ye did come. . ." He stopped, looki...
DIANA GABALDON He was kind of an all-or-nothing kind of kid. Whatever he did, he did with great enthusiasm. He imme...
BRIAN BELL When he did get out, he talked to me and told me he did want to do right and apparently it didn't ha...
GAIL SOUTHERS Murtagh was right about women. Sassenach, I risked my life for ye, committing theft, arson, assault,...
DIANA GABALDON A bedroom requires a bed. Everything else was extravagance. Well, he had a bed all right.
AUDREY MEADOWS The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day ...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI We always assumed he was coming here. When we found out, it was like, 'Wow!' But nothing surprises m...
HUGH DOUGLAS When he hit the ball, the first thing that I did was freeze. The second thing that I did was take a ...
CARLOS BELTRAN For four years he wanted nothing more than to get on that podium. I don't know who hurts worse, me o...
COREY KLINE For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right wor...
CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.
CATHERINE BOWEN I've never chucked nothing. It hurts badly but the one thing I'm determined to do is see it through ...
STEVE BRUCE I just wondered where you —” Ron broke off, shrugging. “Nothing. I’m going back to bed.” J.K. ROWLING It's nothing. He did it playing soccer.
DELTA GOODREM I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to scho...
JOHN TERRY When nothing goes right...go left.
ROBERT ADAMS But there's nothing you like better than when it hurts a little, is there?" Lucien asked.

HOLLY BLACK When nothing is left from love, you pass the back of your hand over your eyes and walk away... There...
MARIANA FULGER And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead,...
BIBLE When you have nothing but love, you have everything. This means you must live as if you have nothing...
JOHN KUYPERS I think when Cleveland was mentioned it had nothing to do with the team as much as it did that he (w...
TERRY PORTER He was apologetic, and he really didn't have nothing to do with it. He tore up his car worse than he...
RICHARD PETTY Don't Be Sorry When You Did Nothing
EZEKIEL O He's on my suit game, ... He thinks they're terrible. There's nothing wrong with my suits. He said h...
DON WRIGHT He felt trapped in an environment where he could do nothing right. He could do nothing to make his f...
JASON GRIGGS It hurts when you know something is so wrong and there is nothing you can really do about it,
CAMMI GRANATO He was the love of my life. My soul hurts ... He was my best friend.
MELISSA GLICK I hate when people compare love to a weapon... Love harms nothing but hatred.
DEDRICK D. L. PITTER Yield nothing to love that is denied to discretion.
MINNA ANTRIM Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belo...
BRYN GREENWOOD Training hard was not just going to the track at 3:30 and running hard. It was going to bed at the r...
A.J. ELLISON For three quarters we did a great job on him. But he stepped it up when he needed to. He's not a sch...
JAKE PALLUZZI Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
CONRAD VEIDT When I got a call earlier this morning, I was completely astounded. The fact that it is happening, a...
INGRID SEWARD Dodi got a lot of criticism when he began dating Princess Diana. No one seemed to think he was good ...
LORNA LUFT Of course he freaked me out.
Of course it's nothing to do with me.
But none of that matt...
EMMA FORREST When nothing is going right, go left.
PHOTO The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avo...
LEO F. BUSCAGLIA Josh did a great job in middle relief last year. He has the mentality that when he comes in, nothing...
JOHN SPARKS I was an hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and y...
BIBLE The national Reform Party did nothing -- zero -- to get me elected,
JESSE VENTURA My dad told me that there are times in this business when it seems like nothing is going to ever go ...
BRANDON BERNSTEIN Our position is that he had absolutely nothing to do with it. It was an accident. It happened while ...
DAVID RUDOLF May the sun shine all day long, everything go right and nothing wrong. May those you love bring love...
IRISH BLESSINGS I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.
WILL ROGERS He may have signed an oil contract. It had nothing to do with me, ... I was aware he was doing exten...
GEORGE GALLOWAY When love is part of a game, it means nothing. When love is love, it means everything.
KATE MCGAHAN You're right,' said the corporal. 'It serves editors like that right. They only stir the people up. ...
JAROSLAV HAšEK When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The sun is a thousand rays in your belly. A...
PABLO PICASSO When people don't want to come, nothing will stop them.
SOL HUROK And when he was accused of the chief priests and elders, he answered nothing.
BIBLE Whenever I have free time, I love to just lay in my bed and watch YouTube videos, watch movies. Just...
BETHANY MOTA My son (did) nothing to deserve this-nothing.
MACHELLE NICHOLS [Regarding his interactions with women,] was Mr. Hinckley clumsy? I don't know, ... But he did nothi...
BARRY LEVINE Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.
AL STEWART I went down with my guitar and sat on his steps until he got there. And when he got there I introduc...
JOHNNY CASH Call me Diana, not Princess Diana.
PRINCESS OF WALES DIANA The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothin...
AUGUSTO ROA BASTOS The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothin...
AUGUSTO BASTOS It hurts when you feel your heart is lonely, but know you have nothing to do but just listen to your...
OUSSAMA HEDHLI I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.
KATHERINE ANNE PORTER O come all ye faithful, Joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem
FREDERICK OAKELEY

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No, I thought. I won't...
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DIANA GABALDON You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the prote...
DIANA GABALDON When I asked my da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd have no...
DIANA GABALDON And I mean to hear ye groan like that again. And to moan and sob, even though you dinna wish to, for...
DIANA GABALDON Because I wanted you." He turned from the window to face me. "More than I ever wanted anything in my...
DIANA GABALDON When' Voyager', the third book of the series, hit the 'New York Times' bestseller li...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime," I said softly, "are you happy about it? About the baby?" Outlawed in Scotland, barred from h...
DIANA GABALDON Torn between the impulse to stroke his head, and the urge to cave it in with a rock, I did neither.
DIANA GABALDON While the Lord might insist that vengeance was His, no male Highlander of my acquaintance had ever t...
DIANA GABALDON Look back, hold a torch to light the recesses of the dark. Listen to the footsteps that echo behind,...
DIANA GABALDON Any piece of good music is in essence a love song.
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Aroused by my voice, ...
DIANA GABALDON ...sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man - not that it usually i...
DIANA GABALDON Then let amourous kisses dwell
On our lips, begin and tell
A Thousand and a Hundred score<...
DIANA GABALDON All I want, is for you to love me. Not because of what I can do or what I look like, or because I lo...
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DIANA GABALDON I have two brain cells left, and one of them is busy reminding me to buy toilet paper.
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DIANA GABALDON Sassenach." He had called me that from the first; the Gaelic word for outlander, a stranger. An Engl...
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DIANA GABALDON But I talk to you as I talk to my own soul," he said, turning me to face him. He reached up and cupp...
DIANA GABALDON I want to hold you like a kitten in my shirt, and still I want to spread your thighs and plow ye lik...
DIANA GABALDON You'll lie wi' me now," he said quietly. "And I shall use ye as I must. And if you'll have your reve...
DIANA GABALDON For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live withou...
DIANA GABALDON Sassenach, I've been stabbed, bitten, slapped, and whipped since supper - which I didna get to finis...
DIANA GABALDON For I had come back, and I dreamed once more in the cool air of the Highlands. And the voice of my d...
DIANA GABALDON Do you really think we'll ever--"

"I do," he said with certainty, not letting me finish. ...
DIANA GABALDON You dinna need to understand me, Sassenach," he said quietly. "So long as you love me.
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DIANA GABALDON When you took me from the witch trial at Cranesmuir--you said then that you would have died with me,...
DIANA GABALDON Lord, ye gave me a rare woman, and God! I loved her well.
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DIANA GABALDON What is it about ye, Sassenach, I wonder?” he said conversationally, eyes still fixed on Myers. DIANA GABALDON I thought he said you weren’t drunk if you could find your arse with both hands.”

He ...
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You do rem...
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DIANA GABALDON I know what it felt . . . like when I . . . thought you were dead, and-" A small gasp for breath, an...
DIANA GABALDON (...) When I asked my Da how ye knew which was the right woman, he told me when the time came, I'd h...
DIANA GABALDON Really love him, I mean," Geilie persisted. "Not just to bed him; I know you want that, and he does ...
DIANA GABALDON My own eyes went to Jamie, who had come to join Fergus and Ian by the sideboard. Still here, thank G...
DIANA GABALDON Take off your shirt," I said, sitting up and pulling at the hem of the garment.

"Why?" he...
DIANA GABALDON Jaime, you must be half-dead"

He laughed tiredly, holding me close with one large warm ha...
DIANA GABALDON ...well, if women's work was never done, why trouble about how much of it wasn't being accomplished ...
DIANA GABALDON For so many years, for so long, I have been so many things, so many different men. But here," he sai...
DIANA GABALDON Aye, well, he'll be wed a long time," he said callously. "Do him no harm to keep his breeches on for...
DIANA GABALDON Grey sat in his bedchamber, unshaven and attired in his nightshirt, banyan, and slippers, drinking t...
DIANA GABALDON I stagger out of bed, take the dogs outside, and then I'll get a Diet Coke and a couple of dog b...
DIANA GABALDON When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I ...
DIANA GABALDON I regarded him gently over my own bowl of stew. He was very large, solid, and beautifully formed. An...
DIANA GABALDON When the day shall come that we do part," he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last word...
DIANA GABALDON Scots have long memories, and they're not the most forgiving of people.
DIANA GABALDON I am a sassenach, after all,” I said, seeing it. He touched my face briefly with a rueful smile. �...
DIANA GABALDON Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow....
DIANA GABALDON I fought back the memory of our wedding night. He was a virgin; his hands trembled when he touched m...
DIANA GABALDON Reading is of course dry work, and further refreshment was called for and consumed.
DIANA GABALDON A general cry of "What book? What book? Let us see this famous book!
DIANA GABALDON Lord, he’d said. Let me be enough. That prayer had lodged in my heart like an arrow when I’d hea...
DIANA GABALDON Let me be enough,
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON Perhaps it was only that the sense of reaching out to something larger than yourself gives you some ...
DIANA GABALDON Where d'ye think he is now?" Jenny said suddenly. "Ian, I mean."
He glanced at the house, then ...
DIANA GABALDON That dog is a wolf, is he not?'

'Aye, well, mostly.'

A small flash of hazel to...
DIANA GABALDON When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
DIANA GABALDON For a long time," he said at last, "when I was small, I pretended to myself that I was the bastard o...
DIANA GABALDON A man’s life had to have more purpose than only to feed himself each day.
DIANA GABALDON Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what...
DIANA GABALDON When a man dies, it’s only him,” he said. “And one is much like another. Aye, a family needs a...
DIANA GABALDON I feel maybe like you did,” he whispered to her, too low to wake her. “When ye came through the ...
DIANA GABALDON Does your knee still hurt, Sassenach?” he asked, seeing me rub it. It hadn’t ever quite recovere...
DIANA GABALDON This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air...
DIANA GABALDON You do mean it, then,” I said. “You feel … er … betrothed to her?” “Well, of course ...
DIANA GABALDON And in the end, it does not matter. I am what God has made me, and must deal with the Times in which...
DIANA GABALDON Men are made in God's image, or so I am told. Likewise that we differ from the animals in having rea...
DIANA GABALDON Do ye not understand?"he said, in near desparation. "I would lay the world at your feet, Claire-and ...
DIANA GABALDON Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA It's the first time I have returned to my roots - like going back to be a trio. The fans really ...
DIANA ROSS The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.
DIANA VREELAND I'm not really on a mission to tell anybody anything. I'd rather be figured out.
DIANA KRALL Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.
DIANA VREELAND I don't even know how to use a parking meter, let alone a phone box.
PRINCESS DIANA What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?
PRINCESS DIANA