Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.
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Related They had to meet a plateau of standards, such as being able to work together and showing community s... ART JACKSON Bound souls. He had always thought the stories of men and women bound throughout all eternity by the... ANN MARSTON There's plenty of money out there. They print more every day. But this ticket, there's only five of ... ROALD DAHL Even as a child, even as my blood-past was drained from me, I understood that if I were strong enoug... ANNE MICHAELS I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happen... LEWIS CARROLL There was a lack of traveling, but the people who were traveling were in family groups. There was a ... CRAIG DAVID All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD Our friendship was like our writing in some ways. It was the only thing that was interesting about o... ANN PATCHETT They understood who they were individually and they understood who they were as a couple. They were ... DAVID HALBERSTAM For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that ... LEWIS CARROLL For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that v... LEWIS CARROLL I can tell you that I never aspired to be president. I always honour something that Commander Chavez... NICOLAS MADURO Obviously, Ian Paisley and I were regarded as very bitter opponents. When we decided in March 2007 t... MARTIN MCGUINNESS He understood that this was a game that he would be required to really make some plays if we were go... AL WALKER I thought Google was the coolest place. People there were so smart and they were all doing these rea... BEN SILBERMANN I told them not to worry. Last year we had four minutes to come back. This year, we had 40. I though... DENNIS COSTELLO When I told Anwar that our investigations were still not completed and were only in its initial stag... MUSA HASSAN We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was liste... JONI MITCHELL Each of these small businesses can offer the opportunity to showcase the value of women in the workp... AIDA ALVAREZ Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secret... LLOYD CUTLER I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in... BETTY WHITE If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never m... TITE KUBO We were thus led to organize ourselves, as men who had fought the war together, in order to support ... RENE CASSIN According to the prophecy a child was going to come along that would be part human and part robot an... KATHRYN DAVIS There were some items and ideas they had that were solid, but a lot of these things we can do in-hou... DEAN ACOSTA So this is going to be drill!? DEYTH BANGER It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and th... DAVID SEDARIS The way you argued with me, you would have thought that we were debating the existence of God or whe... DAVID LEVITHAN I have never understood why it is called losing a child. No parent is that careless. We all know exa... JODI PICOULT When Harry and I were doing the games together, we were as good as a team as there ever was. His sty... JACK BUCK Growing up, I slowly had this process of realizing that all the things around me that people had tol... AARON SWARTZ It was not uncommon for the children to be told they were being treated this way because it was thei... MARY GARDEN All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do, ...... ALICE COOPER All I really wanted to do was make an album that was going to be just back to what I like to do... A... ALICE COOPER Some of these wonderful little stops were not things that we looked for the same way. LIZ WALTON He often wondered whether it were possible to be more possessed by desire for any other woman. ... STIEG LARSSON In my research, I learned that the way these twenties pieces are constructed, in one garment, can be... MARK BRIDGES We really sold this team on unity. Our motto this year is, 'One way, one team.' We told them we were... RICK RIOS Their big players made the plays when it counted and we didn't. Still, it is a tribute to the hard w... JOE CARRINGTON In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means. JACKIE COOPER Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last c... TERRI WINDLING The students actually had the opportunity to play a variety of rhythm instruments together. There we... JAN WILSON For the kind of thing that we were showing, the budget was sufficient. As we were speaking of in Hai... KATHERINE DUNHAM We understood we were trapped. We just had to wait for a decision. GENNADY BOLONIN Some of these kids told us about robberies that were never reported. LT. SANTO CENTAMORE We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces,... FRANCIS PARKMAN She looked around herself, disoriented, like she’d forgotten we were at lunch. Like she’d forgot... STEPHENIE MEYER We had these huge amplifiers, and the band's energy level was just astounding. I recently saw a pict... STANLEY CLARKE We were trying to replace some very talented kids. He was trying to replace the player of the year, ... AL BAGNOLI It's a situation where someone befriends the child, offer small gifts, maybe confide small secrets, ... ERIN SORENSON 80 or 90 years on this broken fallen sin planet will seem like the blink of an eye as we spend etern... JUSTIN STECKBAUER I told them that we had done something very special, but that we were going to be a very different f... JOE POWEL Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughte... BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ We never did these kinds of loans that really started this mess, the subprime loans. We just never g... DAN GILBERT That's the way to start it off. We started off with an even like that, we were on fire and that was ... FRANK KUDLAC I believed God had wired me as a writer for a purpose, and I was squandering that purpose. I finally... TERRI BLACKSTOCK Even as a small child, I wondered why the Dominican nuns who educated me were subservient to the Jes... JANINE DI GIOVANNI That is why we shall fight this all the way in the courts to win back the pensions that our members ... MICHAEL LEAHY We will be quick and I like the way these guys play. We played very well last year except for one ga... BRUCE MILLER This is my fundamental teaching: that there is no division between this and that. That is contained ... OSHO There are hundreds of political prisoners right now in America’s jails who were so taken by Malcol... CORNEL WEST Even if our loved ones have assured us that they will be busy at work, even if they told us they hat... ALAIN DE BOTTON I had been told some still have problems with the bombs that were dropped in Japan, and they were to... BOB CANDEE We understood these flows in a general way, but the details were unclear, so we could not use them t... MAUSUMI DIKPATI I know we will never please everyone. But we do have to make some changes. I would like to be a part... BOB MOORE Even though (McGrew) and I have worked together in the past, a lot of guys on the team were new, som... BRIAN VICKERS In daily life we never understand each other, neither complete clairvoyance nor complete confessiona... E.M. FORSTER More than any woman I ever knew, she comforted.' -Mrs. Huxley about Emma DEBORAH HEILIGMAN That's silly,' said Martha. 'Friends should always tell each other the truth. JAMES MARSHALL Kindness is the essence of greatness and the fundamental characteristic of the noblest men and women... JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women ... JEFFREY R. HOLLAND And we learned that you don't have to be famous or rich or physically healthy to be a leader. You ju... JOAN BAUER There is no tomorrow to remember if we don’t do something today, and to live most fully today, we ... THOMAS S. MONSON Beauty—real everlasting beauty—lives not on our faces, but in our attitude and our actions. It l... JUSTINA CHEN Nothing spooky or terrible happened on set, but we were told to say it had. We were giving a press c... MARGOT KIDDER For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it ... BIBLE They weren't thinking about doing that. Even if they were, I wouldn't let them. We hadn't experience... GREG DIXON They were bound, they were together, there were no kidnappers in the area. RICK LYNCH Some of them were too small; some of them were too large. We definitely had good reasons. ELLEN HANSEN These kids went 18-0 as eighth-graders at Merritt Middle School when I came back to Indianola. That ... CHARLES COLE I had a friend, and we always used to pretend to be twins. We had this fantasy about going to Hollyw... RADHA MITCHELL Some of us had been playing together on a travel team since we were fourth-graders. And we were pret... KRISTINA SCHUSTER I believed, with morbid sincerity, that if I could make him my friend, we would together, in some sm... JEFFREY GOLDBERG Frodo: I can't do this, Sam. Sam: I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN He said he loved his son, that he'd just had a one-year birthday, so we started working that angle, ... TONY GOMEZ In school, we were always told that Normal Magnetism was the only magnetism.But what if there were t... GARY F EVANS... We had a better pass rush than we have had in the past because guys were fresher. He even took (line... GREG ELLIS I had grown up on Folkway's Nonesuch field recordings and the stuff Lomax had done for the Library o... DAVID BYRNE I understand there may be complications in the life of a child if they no longer have a parent. But ... GAYLE STOKES We were kind of going through a transition. I wanted to be home for my daughters more. Even though I... MARIETTA BACHMAN This report may give pause to some of the optimists looking for a stronger second half, ... We need ... JARED BERNSTEIN It took us awhile, but we finally just told them to tell us what to do, and we would do it. There wa... BRIAN WATERS And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passio... GUSTAVE FLAUBERT My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongs... ELLIOT ACKERMAN Ever since I was a small child, I've had this feeling - it's in my nature, and so it's n... CHARLOTTE RAMPLING We have built a total of about 1250 of this aircraft, but only fifty were allowed to be used as figh... ADOLF GALLAND We were suffering much the same at this point last season and I'm sure some of these guys remember t... DARRYL ADAMS When we bought this place we were told this wasn't considered a flood zone. So if I had to pay more ... JASON LAMB You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I... NICHOLAS SPARKS
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ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe... ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year. ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500... ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ... ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w... ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone.... ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it. ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything. ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive... PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun. ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time). ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all. ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer. ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible... AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes... AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate. AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug. AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit. AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get. AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your... AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil... ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow... REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ... REID HOFFMAN