Do you know how sometimes - when you are riding your bike and you start skidding across sand, or when you miss a step and start tumbling down the stairs - you have those long, long seconds to know that you are going to be hurt, and badly?
Jodi Picoult
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And when you start to fa... CARLOS GHOSN Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ... DEYTH BANGER When you don't know where to start, just go to a place you miss so much. TOBA BETA I know [Rivera's] leg kick is a 1.4 or a 1.5 [seconds]. And when [he uses a slide step], it's a 1.0.... JOEY GATHRIGHT When you are in a long relationship, sometimes you forget who you are, what you love to do. MEREDITH OSTROM Sometimes I think that you have to swallow your pride a little bit and know when you are done. JASON WHITE when im mad i usually punch a wall but that doesnt work so when your mad you dont need to punch a wa... DALLY SALAD And, you know, being able to wear the stars and stripes, when you step up on one of the blocks or, y... MICHAEL PHELPS Do you know how there are moments when the world moves so slowly you can feel your bones shifting, y... 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In all likelihood you will... JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI Sex is like snow; you never know how many inches you are going to get or how long it is going to las... ANON. Sooner or later, you start taking yourself seriously. You know when you need a break. You know when... NIKE ADVERTISEMENT Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to be hurt l... ERNEST HEMINGWAY A thing about poetry is, It takes cuts and pain to bleed words. The deeper the wound is, the more yo... AKSHAY VASU When something is at risk or in danger or about to be lost, those are the moments you start to reali... GARTH RISK HALLBERG Be all that you can be. You can be great. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA When you know you are going down, dying slowly and taken your whole family with you; that is what re... JOHN ZEA Real isn't how you are made," said the Skin Horse. "It's a thing that happens to you. When a child l... MARGERY WILLIAMS BIANCO Throughout it all I have to say you have given me a hard time, you animal, but there are days, like ... MARLENE M. CHAVEZ You know you are getting old when the candles on your birthday cake start to cost more than the cake... ANONYMOUS Well, I always know what I want. And when you know what you want--you go toward it. Sometimes you go... AYN RAND When I very first started acting, at university, I thought I could do anything. Because you are so i... TOM WILKINSON I don't know how long is too long, but I do know that your struggles don't make you weak or abnormal... MARCUS HARRISON GREEN When you start a scene, and you don't really know where you're going to go, that's a rol... MARION COTILLARD This is one you circle on the calendar. And when you know that you're going to be playing them early... BART TOOLEY When you're a kid, all you really care about are Slurpees and Slip N Slide and riding your bike,... PAULY SHORE Do you know what it's like to love and be alone? ABRAHAM POLONSKY You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. JOHN PLOMP You know children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers JOHN J. PLOMP You really have to know how much money you need to support your family. It takes time and it's tedio... KAREN SPERO As long as you believe in what you're doing and you stay on the path that you believe in, then you'r... BO PELINI What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start worki... JACK LALANNE How do you feel when you want to stand and you see yourself on the floor? Sometimes what God wi... PATIENCE JOHNSON Now I know a lot about my body, like how important it is to eat well, as it makes you stronger in th... ROBIN VAN PERSIE I wanted you for a long time and you never realized how much I cared for you. I have asked you many ... 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how can you see where you are going? ELIZABETH ALRAUNE When people start copying your style, you know that something must be happening. JAMES HETFIELD You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. JOHN J. PLOMP As long as you are proud you cannot know God. A proud man is always looking down on thing and people... C.S. LEWIS I believe when you meet the right person it clicks, and you both know and you start making it work, ... HUNTER HAYES And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different... CRAIG GROESCHEL When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you&... NEIL YOUNG Beauty is discernible in your fleeting moments. When you talk; in a smile or a blink of your eye; be... ANURADHA BHATTACHARYYA You start dying slowly if you do not travel, if you do not read, If you do not lis... MARTHA MEDEIROS I feel that as long as you're honest, you have the opportunity to grow. It's when you shut d... TRACY MCMILLAN As long as I knew my family was OK, I felt very safe. When something doesn't affect you (directly), ... LANCE BASS When you start talking about the patients' bill of rights and all the benefits that are in there... BART STUPAK You know you've been around when they start to remake your own movies when you're still aliv... SYLVESTER STALLONE When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when ... KONOSUKE MATSUSHITA Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili... BERNARD BARUCH Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your faili... BERNARD M. BARUCH You are strong when you know your weakness. You are beautiful when you know your flaws. You are wise... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA What I'm saying is, when you have weight like that in your life, you have to start looking for the b... ISAAC MARION It is a noble responsibility to not back down when you know that you know that you know that you are... CRISS JAMI The trouble with being educated is that it takes a long time; it uses up the better part of your lif... PHILIP K. DICK The idea came very quickly - while I was talking on the telephone. You know how sometimes when you a... ETTORE SOTTSASS When you wander in the dark too long, you start to see things that aren’t really there. KEIGO HIGASHINO It's funny when you start off, and things are going well, you think they are going to continue every... JOE NASH When you commit to excellence , you will suddenly start to see the quality of your life escalate. Yo... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
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When you told someone how you felt, t... JODI PICOULT Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you... JODI PICOULT Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved y... JODI PICOULT There were two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations JODI PICOULT I close my eyes, thinking that there is nothing like an embrace after an absence, nothing like fitti... JODI PICOULT It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that did... JODI PICOULT It was that she truly believed you could be fourteen when you learned how love could change the spee... JODI PICOULT Could you really love someone who was capable of falling in love with someone else? JODI PICOULT ...in the blink of an eye, you might reinvent yourself...the person you were yesterday might not be ... JODI PICOULT I'm really proud of ( JODI PICOULT When you read the art, JODI PICOULT You have to create characters who will whisk people away from their ordinary lives. JODI PICOULT Vengeance was a funny thing: You wanted the satisfaction of knowing it had occurred, but you never w... JODI PICOULT In the wake of a disaster, the last thing you needed to do was set off another bomb; instead, you wa... JODI PICOULT They were at different places in the same relationship and like anything that's out of alighment, th... JODI PICOULT She wondered how many hours it had been since she'd talked out loud. If you didn't use your voice, e... JODI PICOULT The truth is the truth. JODI PICOULT Change is a funny thing. We never are quite sure what we are becoming or even why. Then one day we l... JODI PICOULT High school students were cannibals; they fed off your broken heart while you watched and then shrug... JODI PICOULT When heaven breaks, who fixes it? JODI PICOULT Dante believed God punished suicides by trapping the person's spirit in a tree trunk. On Judgement D... JODI PICOULT newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas JODI PICOULT From that point of view, I realized that my hole was not miles deep after all. My father, in fact, c... JODI PICOULT His grandmother had taught him that there was no such thing as coincidence. There are millions of pe... JODI PICOULT Antony was also obsessive, judgmental, and paranoid. JODI PICOULT Just because you didn't put a name to something did not mean it wasn't there. JODI PICOULT Being a parent wasn't just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life. JODI PICOULT When you're a parent you find yourself looking at the unknown that is your child, trying to find a p... JODI PICOULT I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere alon... JODI PICOULT Other people look at me and think: That poor woman; she has a child with a disability. But al... JODI PICOULT I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms ar... JODI PICOULT