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ANDREW RILSTONE At that moment the dull sound of a rumbling crash from outside filtered through the low murmur of th...
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ALAN PATON This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it wer...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Our celebrities are arriving on schedule. Missy is here, Usher is here, Fat Joe is here.
LAURA BADDISH I can't bear it that Douglas isn't still here.
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PIERS ANTHONY Adams first law of survival: Get even first.
DALE ADAMS I'm out of here, I'm better than all of you.
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DON ANDERSON The single biggest surprise about arriving to the Senate is the defeatist attitude here.
TED CRUZ The five member security team is arriving here and will tour Karachi on Dec. 26.
ZAKIR KHAN I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids/Sprouting despondently at area gates.
T.S. ELIOT The invitation to something better is not arriving from any source outside of yourself — ever.
BRYANT MCGILL (Assistant coach) Phil Crowe got him on the bike when he was injured, and (Adams) came back 100 perc...
CHRIS STEWART At the moment it is much more unknown to me here than in the American west, which I know quite well ...
WIM WENDERS There's no one better than Ben on the greens here at Augusta, probably him, Tiger (Woods) and Phil (...
ERNIE ELS The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.
RON PERLMAN You're better than seven years of food. You're better than windows. You're even better than the sky.
SHANNON HALE Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars....
GEORGE MIKES It's better here than in the minor leagues. The air is better, the food tastes better, the water is ...
REGGIE ABERCROMBIE A new untruth is better than an old truth.
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, JR. Love is a better teacher than duty.
ALBERT EINSTEIN It's way better here than Logan.
BRYAN DEWEY Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.
DAVID LYNCH Seeing is better than being blind, even when seeing hurts.
ABRAHAM H. MASLOW Hyperbole has been part of elections since the days of John Adams, and there's nobody better tha...
STEPHEN PAGLIUCA Arthur lay in startled stillness on the acceleration couch. He wasn't certain whether he had just go...
DOUGLAS ADAMS If natural selection can create creationists it can manage a caterpillar with a face on its arse.
ZANE STUMPO There is no better place to serve our country than right here.
GEORGE EICHERT I don't care where they're taking us. Anywhere is better than here.
JAMES CAIRE Memories, even bittersweet ones, are better than nothing.
JENNIFER ARMENTROUT Sometimes being a brother is even better than being a superhero.
BRAD BONEY Rather than arriving five hours late and flustered, it would be better all around if he were to arri...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Ageing's alright, better than the alternative, which is not being here.
GEORGE H. W. BUSH This is a much better feeling than when we were here last time.
JEFF KIND Often any decision, even the wrong decision, is better than no decision.
BEN HOROWITZ The results are definitely better than expected. Even the subscriber additions are certainly better ...
BARRY RICHARDS I love Bobby Douglas. When you think of wrestling, you think of Coach Douglas.
CAEL SANDERSON I'm not even sure where home is. Probably Terminal 5. There is a strange sense of calm about arr...
ALEX TURNER FIU is better known among the Latin American press than here in the U.S.,
CHARLES GREEN Fantasy love is much better than reality love.
ANDY WARHOL Any truth is better than indefinite doubt.
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE A harmful truth is better than a useful lie.
THOMAS MANN 'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, ...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Having been here before and lost, to be here and win, I've got to tell you, winning is really a lot ...
KATE WINSLET There is no greater mystery to me than that of light traveling through darkness.
ALEXANDER VOLKOV Tomorrow’ is the thing that’s always coming but never arrives. ‘Today’ is the thing that’s...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH I felt our hitting came alive today. And Andrew Adams is really stepping to hit well. He's only a so...
BOB BRUGLIO Even though creditors have taken a large haircut it was better than expected ... it is better gettin...
JAMES HARPER It was a pretty typical Carson-Douglas match. It doesn't matter who's the better team, it always com...
BRUCE BARNES No one writes dialect better than Flannery O'Connor. No one should even try.
DAVID SEDARIS Keep traveling, even if you don't know where the road will end.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting ag...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN Who's getting on an airplane? What name is that person using? When are they arriving here? We haven'...
C. BLAIR They have the best food here. It's better than homemade.
ROBERT MELTESEN My hope still is to leave the world a bit better than when I got here.
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DANIEL HINES Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to ...
ASTRO TELLER I think our overall depth is equal to or maybe even better than last year.
BART THOMPSON The alternative is getting into fist fights. Even hot words are better than fist fights.
CRAIG GRAU It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.
HENRI POINCARE An educator...a good one that is, inspires others to be even better than herself.
JILL TELFORD Water quality has improved dramatically. Drinking water is very secure and even better than before.
DU YUXIN Life is raw material. We are artisans. We can sculpt our existence into something beautiful, or deba...
CATHY BETTER Only the traveling is good which reveals to me the value of home and enables me to enjoy it better.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU I just sleep here sometimes. It's better than going home exhausted.
BASIM ELKARRA Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Don't Panic
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DOUGLAS ADAMS Life is like a grapefruit. Well, it's sort of orangy-yellow and dimpled on the outside, wet and squi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Some say that the universe is made so that when we are about to understand it, it changes into somet...
DOUGLAS ADAMS To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here...
JONATHAN EDWARDS To go to heaven, fully to enjoy God, is infinitely better than the most pleasant accommodations here
JONATHAN EDWARDS I've been tailgating here for about 15 years, and I like tailgating here better than at Auburn,
VAN HORN The truth is of course is that there is no journey. We are arriving and departing all at the same ti...
DAVID BOWIE Traveling has less to do with seeing things than experiencing them...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Even here, a male with more testosterone, that's better nourished, and displays all the good genes a...
BRUCE PATTERSON Oh sod me, Sir, not another bloody Paddy. Even a Brummie is better than another Paddy.
JIM MCGRATH Even with the high gas prices, people are still traveling on business and vacations.
HOBIE CAWOOD American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at votin...
MARSHALL MCLUHAN The past always looks better than it was. It's only pleasant because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is grow...
TERRY PRATCHETT The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
FINLEY PETER DUNNE Is human nature to believe that other places and other times are better than the here and now.
BRANDON SANDERSON The problem with Adams,
DAVID MCCULLOUGH Belief is only the beginning... (Stephanie Adams Quote For GODDESSY.com)
STEPHANIE ADAMS I find it extremely hypocritical that Washington is investigating this group for the 'crime' of trav...
MICHAEL RATNER I'm very pleased with my season this year. I think this season is even better than 2004,
JUSTIN GATLIN Even life without drugs has gotta be better than this malarkey.
PETE DOHERTY I like cappuccino, actually. But even a bad cup of coffee is better than no coffee at all.
DAVID LYNCH Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.
HYPATIA Overall I would say pretty good, probably better than last year. It's closer to 2004, but maybe even...
BOB DYCE It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
CARL VON CLAUSEWITZ It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.
KARL VON CLAUSEWITZ I think we'll be even better than last year. We're a year older and a year better.
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DOUGLAS ADAMS It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.
DOUGLAS ADAMS In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women and...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.
DOUGLAS ADAMS He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind- bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existenc...
DOUGLAS ADAMS The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola
DOUGLAS ADAMS The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a...
DOUGLAS ADAMS My doctor says that I have a malformed public duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre,' h...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Same as you, Arthur. I hitched a ride. After all, with a degree in maths and another in astrophysics...
DOUGLAS ADAMS He actually caught himself saying things like "Yippee," as he pranced ridiculously round the house.
DOUGLAS ADAMS If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non...
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