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From quiet homes and first beginning, out to the undiscovered ends, there's nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.


Hilaire Belloc

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HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There's nothing worth the wear o...
HILAIRE BELLOC From quiet homes and first beginning,
Out to the undiscovered ends,
There's nothing worth the ...
HILAIRE BELLOC There is nothing worth the wear of winning, but laughter and the love of friends.
JAMES BOSWELL For no one, in our long decline,So dusty, spiteful and divided,Had quite such pleasant friends as mi...
HILAIRE BELLOC I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Life is short, and that's why, I don't test people; because we all fail tests sometimes, but that is...
C. JOYBELL C. He said that academia reminded him of a badly run circus. The faculty members were like underfed ani...
SUSAN HUBBARD She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the tas...
EDITH WHARTON I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
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ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Loving someone who never loved you, is like remembering a face you never saw.
No matter how har...
RATISH EDWARDS There will be things I won't tell you ever ,
Then there will be things that you won't ever lis...
RATISH EDWARDS I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind....
GAUTAMA BUDDHA In the journey of life, certain paths may seem to be leading nowhere because of a mountain or hill o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The mark of a real man, is a man who can allow himself to fall deeply in love with a woman. But the ...
C. JOYBELL C. When each and every believer rises up to serve others and function according to their capacity, the ...
HENRY HON That's really sad," Beth said softly, "To have no one left.
R.J. SCOTT Somebody once asked,how can I Love another? The reply he got was,do you love yourself? He replied ye...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life begins somewhere and ends somewhere with time but to get somewhere with the life you have depen...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL Percy was getting tired of water.
If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po...
RICK RIORDAN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha...
L.M. MONTGOMERY At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w...
RICK RIORDAN We have within ourselves as a species, to find the beauty in everything. And once we master it, we w...
TOM ALTHOUSE I feel so honored to be able to say "What I do is for my son" without that being an excuse to do stu...
C. JOYBELL C. love, I've come to understand is more than three words mumbled before bedtime.
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“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
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C. JOYBELL C. We still should have enough time to reach Rome.”
Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav...
RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced.
“You name your furniture?” Frank asked.
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RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas...
RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?”
Percy wanted to step ...
RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ...
RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered.
The taxi driver grinned in...
RICK RIORDAN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO Some of the most unkind,judgmental people I've ever known go to church every Sunday and read the Bib...
JUDITH MCNAUGHT Today the same thing over. I've got it up the tree again.
MARK TWAIN I have met so many heartbroken men. It's a catastrophe. Women are easily overcome by the process tha...
C. JOYBELL C. God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c...
JOHN PIPER Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor...
CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming.
SARU SINGHAL How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
LEWIS CARROLL And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins
C.S. LEWIS Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the...
C. JOYBELL C. Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t...
RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!”
She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe...
RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died.
RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed.
RICK RIORDAN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and...
PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Each day before the end of eve
she sought her lover, nor would him leave,
until the stars ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN May I never neither turn left nor turn right in my journey of life, but may I go straight to Christ ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN The meaning of life: For centuries "man" searched for the meaning of life. On that journey, the valu...
DORIS J TORRES And what good is a voice when so few will listen?
STACEY JAY Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Gods of Olympus.” Piper stared at Leo. “What happened to you?”
His hair was grease...
RICK RIORDAN Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”
“Tempting,” ...
RICK RIORDAN We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
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