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We were sick about that. Kerry Collins is not the fastest guy, first of all.
VONNIE HOLLIDAY
Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we crea...
SILAS HOUSE
If we can come out against Collins and score in the game's first 10 minutes, it would have changed t...
CHERYL INGHAM
We need to understand that whatever we do, we're all human beings first.
BILLY PORTER
We would be interested in bidding if Collins & Aikman in the U.S. were to come up for sale,
WILBUR ROSS
We played well in the first game, we just couldn't come up with the big hit. Eric was just dominant ...
ANDREW BRADLEY
Academics are the No. 1 thing. It's the first thing we tell players when they come to Auburn. They a...
TOMMY TUBERVILLE
Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA
Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN
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
We played well in the first half. We did a good job of getting the ball into Eric in the post.
JUSTIN SHERWOOD
We create karma by all kinds of selfish actions.The first thing we must understand is that we are ps...
ABHYSHEQ SHUKLA
People have to understand what this does to families. We have to stop it.
DONNA MEYERS
Normally, I'd say a win in the first game is huge, and it is huge. But we still have to come back an...
FRAN RIORDAN
An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI
We're trying to respect the families' opportunity to discuss any details that come out in the news w...
JEFF ROTH
The cross issue is generally unrelated to this. But we understand and sympathize with those families...
BOB MCKENZIE
We need a mayor who knows how to balance a budget, who understands the urgency of delivering all the...
CAROLYN MALONEY
Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
COTTON MATHER
sensible economic policies that put American families first.
ROBERT MATSUI
What I learned from 9/11 that is really important, first and foremost, you have to motivate all the ...
JOSEPH J. LHOTA
Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.
NEIL INNES
These were two close families, and from what we understand, they did a lot of things together.
LEE BLACKMON
We want to encourage families to come and spend a day together.
LYN RICE
I want to establish myself as the first Eric Davis, not the next Willie Mays.
ERIC DAVIS
It is important for all of us to appreciate where we come from and how that history has really shape...
SONIA SOTOMAYOR
I'm extremely grateful to all the first responders, veterans and their families for all their sa...
TAYA KYLE
Lord Jesus, we come just as we are; this is how we came at first, and this is how we come still, wit...
CHARLES SPURGEON
You have to understand the human dimension, ... For those families, this becomes a tragedy of monume...
DENNIS KUCINICH
Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
She winced and covered her ears as Eric,onstage, wrestled with his microphone.

"Sorry abo...
CASSANDRA CLARE
I come from a small village in Sicily. For all Italian people, family is very important. We don'...
DOMENICO DOLCE
We knew Eric had the ability. We could see it in the training room. But for a kid to come here who's...
JEFF BRICKER
You have some from poor families, some jobless. You also have individuals that come from wealthy fam...
EVAN KOHLMANN
Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
GARY ZUKAV
Understand that we're trying to come out of this with a healthy program for all students.
CAROLYN CHILDS
Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.
GARY ZUKAV
The problem is not the misunderstanding we have, but the understanding we have missed. We must come ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
We are all disciples of the light.
STEVEN MAGEE
You all have your own distinct personal backgrounds. Of course some of you come from rich families, ...
KOUSHUN TAKAMI
We've got to get ready for that draft. It's real important. I want to understand what's done. If we ...
DAVE CHECKETTS
The fact that you are willing to say, ''I do not understand, and it is fine,'' is the greatest under...
WAYNE DYER
All families are happy, all families are alike.
LEO TOLSTOY
I thought (Collins) was very effective. It appeared that they listened.
JOAN MCDONALD
We'll be periodically visiting all those families and talk with them and try to understand what thei...
GIL JAMIESON
Our lives!!! We have just all of a sudden discovered that here we are with something called life see...
SUNDAY ADELAJA
We have families that come and go. What can we do as an agency to fit into the protocol, other than ...
DIANNE SCOTT
We also are trying to provide programming and events for students, faculty, staff, community members...
ANA GUERRIERO
First concert I ever went to was a group called The Yardbirds. Eric Clapton is the lead guitarist.
RON BARBER
We are giving the families all the support we can.
GORDON MILLER
Eric has been around this and knows the importance of it. He's seen the good teams that have come th...
DOUG MCCRARY
We want all of our families and all of the children to feel that they're welcome and included there,...
HELEN COHEN
First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and i...
STANISLAW JERZY LEC
He beat Wahpeton's No. 1 player in the state-qualifier round. Eric had a great weekend. For a first-...
GREG LADOUCEUR
Let's be proud that we put our families first, and let's start a movement to go back home with our b...
BILL SHINE
Families used to come from somewhere, and that's where they stayed.
ALAN GERRY
The whole file should be open. Let's look at the good that can come from that. If we understand how ...
BARBARA BUCKLEY
We basically said, 'Eric, what do we need to do here?'
JASON KING
We get a lot of families that come in together. A lot of parents take off work when their kids are o...
RACHEL ANDERSON
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that...
LANCE BURTON
We are shopping Eric. Obviously, we would much rather have Eric released. But if we can work out a t...
GREG JOHNSON
We all know there are three states in Louisiana: north, south and the Isle of Orleans, ... But we ar...
ROBERT ADLEY
We said, 'We understand you're interested in coming. So, sure, come,'
MARTIN FROST
It's very unlikely Eric will forget that.
BENJAMIN ZANDER
I'm a booster of Terry Collins .
TOMMY LASORDA
No matter where we come from, there is one language we can all speak and understand from birth, the ...
IMANIA MARGRIA
It's all we have left. We've lost our homes and our city. Now all we have left is our families and f...
CHRIS SCELFO
It's nice to know that people see what we are doing. I think we do set an example. All of the kids t...
CEDRIC PAYTON
In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends. -John Churton Collins.
JOHN CHURTON COLLINS
My parents were divorced when I was a young teenager, and I was raised by a single mother after that...
MICHELE BACHMANN
We come into this world head first and go out feet first; in between, it is all a matter of balance.
PAUL BOESE
Nothing happens by itself... it all will come your way, once you understand that you have to make it...
BEN STEIN
Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he...
JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD
Have patience with all things, But, first of all with yourself.
SAINT FRANCIS DE SALES
Not only is this is a great fund-raiser for our community but, it's a once in a life time opportunit...
JODI SMALLCOMB
That first round is huge. You've got to come out focused and going straight ahead. If we can stay fo...
RON AVERILL
Eric has dramatically improved the profitability of McAfee during 2005, significantly growing net op...
GEORGE SAMENUK
We want families to come back to see us and sit around the family dining room table.
DENNIS CHANDLER
If we are to understand emergency department wait times in Canada, we must first understand how emer...
JENNIFER ZELMER
I have the highest regard for (Collins).
JIM SCHWARTZ
I can't even imagine what the three families are going through. We send our condolences out to all t...
DEAN BEHRANS
We just wanted to come out to be visible and present and to let people see we are families too.
ALISA SURKIS
I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more...
SAMINA BAIG
You have to understand that was the first outing he's had all spring. You're probably not going to h...
MATT GALANTE
Collins I think had a higher percentage of first serves. Much higher than the Mill Valley meet and t...
RACHEL ELKINS
He looks up and the loss in his Noise is so great it feels like I'm standing on the edge of an abyss...
PATRICK NESS
We are very excited to be adding both Harold and Eric to our scouting staff. We feel very strongly t...
DAVE NONIS
We cannot assume that all the children who cannot find their parents have lost their entire families...
CAROL BELLAMY
We're all reeling at this point. We're all deeply saddened with this news. However, I believe that w...
HELEN JEPSEN
We've been doing that all year, bringing Eric in late ... letting him shut them down, kind of like h...
STACEY ALSTON
I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER
This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will unde...
MUHAMMAD ALI
We had a plan that all the Acura cars would stay together and use the draft, ... I was gaining on Er...
BRANDON DAVIS
I feel bad for all the families. We are all mothers, and they are all sons.
LORRAINE BYNUM
We tried to get the ball out of Collins' hands and he still got off 27 shots.
DUGGAR BAUCOM
All the families totally lost everything in the hurricane. These families are putting in sweat equit...
CINDY GRIFFIN
I came to understand that women often keep it together by stepping into the breach to provide for an...
CALVIN HILL
Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN

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So the heavy dose of morphling administered...
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Certainly Nancy Reagan had an extraordinary effect on her husband. I'm truly not sure that, say,...
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I may like the Blizzard best, of all the songs I have written.
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest, By all their country's wishes blest!
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Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part, Nature in him was almost lost in art.
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And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
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I'm going to wake Peeta," I say.
"No, wait," says Finnick. "Let's do it together. Put our faces...
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I turn and put my lips close to Peeta's and drop my eyelids in imitation... "He offered me sugar and...
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I pull an arrow, whip the notch into place, and am about to let it fly when I'm stopped by the sight...
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That if desperate times call for desperate measures, then I'm free to act as desperately as I wish.
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Katniss," Gale says softly.
I recognize that voice. It's the same one he uses to approach wound...
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Look, if you wanted to be babied you should have asked Peeta.
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Tick, tock.
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It must be very fragile, if a handful of berries can bring it down.
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I'm so sorry," I whisper. I lean forward and kiss him.
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Aim higher in case you fall short.
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I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.
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I knew you'd kiss me."
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"Because I am in pain,...
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Katniss. I remember about the bread.
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Stay with me.

Always.
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I'm j...
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No. Now, shut up and eat your pears.
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Deep in the meadow, hidden far away
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Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.
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I raise my left arm and twist my neck down to rip off the pill on my sleeve. Instead my teeth sink i...
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They'll either want to kill you, kiss you, or be you.
SUZANNE COLLINS
That what I need to survive is not Gale's fire, kindled with rage and hatred. I have plenty of fire ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
SUZANNE COLLINS
I think....you still have no idea. The effect you can have.
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SUZANNE COLLINS
Technically, I am unarmed. But no one should ever underestimate the harm that fingernails can do. Es...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Are you, are you coming to the tree?
Wear a necklace of rope, side by side with me.
Stra...
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Ally." Peeta says the words slowly, tasting it. "Friend. Lover. Victor. Enemy. Fiancee. Target. Mutt...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with me."
His pupils contract to pinpoints, dial...
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There are much worse games to play.
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Some walks you have to take alone.
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I must have loved you a lot.
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Fire is catching! And if we burn, you burn with us!
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You're still trying to protect me. Real or not real," he whispers.
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It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
SUZANNE COLLINS
The anguish I always feel when she's in pain wells up in my chest and threatens to register on my fa...
SUZANNE COLLINS
For there to be betrayal, there would have to have been trust first.
SUZANNE COLLINS
You here to finish me off, Sweetheart?
SUZANNE COLLINS
I can feel Peeta press his forehead into my temple and he asks, 'So now that you've got me, what are...
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Agreed," I say. "It's going to be a long hour."
"Maybe not that long," says Peeta." what was th...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Well, don't expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much bra...
SUZANNE COLLINS
You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Still, I hate them. But, of course, I hate almost everybody now. Myself more than anyone.
SUZANNE COLLINS
It's meant to be pretty," whispers Octavia, and I can see the tears threatening to spill over her la...
SUZANNE COLLINS
While I was waiting...I ate your lunch.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final def...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Katniss: I’m coming back into focus when Caesar asks him if he has a girlfriend back home.
P...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Yeah, about that,” says Peeta, entwining his fingers in mine. “Don’t try something like that a...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I th...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.
SUZANNE COLLINS
But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you...
SUZANNE COLLINS
The mayor finishes the dreary Treaty of Treason and motions for Peeta and me to shake hands. His are...
SUZANNE COLLINS
She reaches in, digs her hand deep into the ball, and pulls out a slip of paper. The crowd draws in ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the...
SUZANNE COLLINS
But I feel as if I did know Rue, and she'll always be with me. Everything beautiful brings her to mi...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Peeta's awake already, sitting on the side of the bed, looking bewildered as the trio of doctors rea...
SUZANNE COLLINS
He’s dozed off again, but I kiss him awake, which seems to startle him. Then he smiles as if he’...
SUZANNE COLLINS
But Mockingjays were never a weapon," said Madge. "They’re just songbirds. Right?"

"Yea...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Peeta, you were supposed to wake me after a couple of hours," I say.

"For what? Nothing's...
SUZANNE COLLINS
It's impossible to be the Mockingjay. Impossible to complete even this one sentence. Because now I k...
SUZANNE COLLINS
If Peeta and I were both to die, or they thought we were....My fingers fumble with the pouch on my b...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Y de repente es cómo si no existiera nadie más en el mundo que estas dos personas que atraviesan e...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Don't you see, Katniss, this will decide things. One way or the other. By the end of the day, they'l...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Lucky thing were allies, right?
-Finnick Odair
SUZANNE COLLINS
I can hear him weeping but I don't care. They probably won't even bother to question her, she's so f...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I wish they were all dead and we were, too. It would be best."

Well, there's no good resp...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Poor Finnick. Is this the first time in your life you haven't looked pretty?" I say.
"It must b...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Did you love Annie right away, Finnick?" I ask. "No." A long time passes before he adds, "She crept ...
SUZANNE COLLINS
I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Do you find this...distracting?
SUZANNE COLLINS
Plutarch rushes to reassure me. "Oh, no, Katniss. Not your wedding. Finnick and Annie's. All you nee...
SUZANNE COLLINS
Want a sugar cube?" he asks in his old seductive voice.
SUZANNE COLLINS
And if we burn, you burn with us.
SUZANNE COLLINS
My hour for tea is half-past five, and my buttered toast waits for nobody.
WILKIE COLLINS
Destroying things is much easier than making them.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Even if times got bad, he would never again deny himself the possibility that the future might be ha...
SUZANNE COLLINS
If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.
SUZANNE COLLINS
And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.
SUZANNE COLLINS
Hope,” said Vikus. “There are times it will be very hard to find. Times when it will be much eas...
SUZANNE COLLINS
If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up
SUZANNE COLLINS