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Grand buildings made her feel better--maybe because being in a place so permanent made her feel more permanent.


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AL GRASSER I want a permanent relationship, and I might feel inclined to reject anything which of its nature co...
ALAN TURING Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island c...
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GERMAINE GREER I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having ...
TEA LEONI I think the Bush tax cuts should be made permanent.
VITO FOSSELLA i know how it makes you feel...peaceful, permanent, unbroken
MARGARET STOHL The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
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DALE BARNES In some cases we may leave it there. If it could be made into a wide area (a larger, permanent pull-...
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CAMMIE MCGOVERN The players really like the idea of having a permanent home where the team can feel comfortable, get...
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JENNIFER E. SMITH If their permanent houses are made of the same material, they will not be able to live in them.
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CINDY POTTER In my view, the operas of Carlisle Floyd will find a place in the permanent repertoire.
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CARMEN DOLFO The shirts are permanent and once they are made, they can't take it back even if the event gets canc...
MARESSA MENDEOLA The feeling of loving her and being loved by her welled up in him, and he could taste the adrenaline...
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ALICE MARQUARDT That's what made her decide. There's no place for the kids to go.
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GLENN HAYBITTLE I just dropped it, no excuses. He made me feel much better.
JUAN ENCARNACION Having a baby made her more focused on academics and athletics.
KIRK NAUMAN One of the dwarfs walked in front of Thor to get a better view of the prye, and Thor kicked him irri...
NEIL GAIMAN I don't mind being a permanent nightmare for the United States.
EVO MORALES When my time ends, I want people to say, 'Man her music made me smile; it just enlightened my li...
LEDISI Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place
EDMUND SPENSER It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.
OSCAR WILDE How could something taht made a person feel so safe be so BAD?
KATIE ALENDER How could something that made a person feel so safe be so BAD?
KATIE ALENDER fitting and more permanent form of tribute.
THE BEATLES The specie called. enthusiasm Is a permanent tenant of a joyful being.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) We have always had a preference for permanent settlement or permanent migration.
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KEVIN ANDERSON I felt okay after the 22 miles, actually better than I thought I would. Blake felt worse than I did,...
BILL SPENCER She's a very, very timid person, and since she was scared, I was just like, I just wanted her to fee...
DAX MAIER And she who guarded her chastity, so We breathed into her of Our inspiration and made her and her so...
QURAN Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.
MILTON FRIEDMAN Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program
MILTON FRIEDMAN Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.
JOHANNES KEPLER There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist to ...
RALPH L. WOODS There are no permanent changes because change itself is permanent. It behooves the industrialist t...
RALPH L. WOODS Yet I can’t bring myself to derail from her nor can I reject what I feel in the most primitive par...
JOCELYN WHITE Ï feel very proud because we worked so hard to create it - and proud for France because everything ...
BERNARD ARNAULT Ï feel very proud because we worked so hard to create it - and proud for France because everything ...
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RICK RIORDAN A big sacrifice is coming, and you won't have the courage to make it. That will cost you dearly. It ...
RICK RIORDAN Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers ...
RICK RIORDAN Humans see what they want to see.
RICK RIORDAN Remake the world, a little at a time, each in your own corner of the world.
RICK RIORDAN Then she did something so unexpected Nico would later think he dreamed it. She walked up to Nico, wh...
RICK RIORDAN You will suffer, son of Hades!’
What else is new? Nico thought.
RICK RIORDAN This is so cool!" Nico said, jumping up and down in the driver's seat. "Is this really the sun? I th...
RICK RIORDAN Christmas in the Underworld was NOT my idea.
If I'd known what was coming, I would've called i...
RICK RIORDAN I had a crush on Percy," Nico spat. "That's the truth. That's the big secret.
RICK RIORDAN For a long time,’ Nico said, ‘I had a crush on you. I just wanted you to know.’ Percy looked a...
RICK RIORDAN He turned, registering a face with blond hair, and for a split second he thought it was Will Solace....
RICK RIORDAN Good. So you may be dense, but you’re not an idiot.’
‘How can you even talk to me like t...
RICK RIORDAN Nico," I said at last, "shouldn't you be sitting at the Hades table?"

He shrugged. "Techn...
RICK RIORDAN Oh, did you expect me to play fair?" Cupid laughed. "I am the god of love. I am never fair.
RICK RIORDAN With great power... comes great need to take a nap. Wake me up later.
RICK RIORDAN Let us find the dam snack bar," Zoe said. "We should eat while we can."
Grover cracked a smile....
RICK RIORDAN Because I know you, Percy Jackson. In many ways, you are impulsive, but when it comes to your friend...
RICK RIORDAN Be careful of love. It'll twist your brain around and leave you thinking up is down and right is wro...
RICK RIORDAN What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apol...
RICK RIORDAN Families are messy. Immortal families are eternally messy. Sometimes the best we can do is to remind...
RICK RIORDAN Don't feel bad, I'm usually about to die.
RICK RIORDAN I nodded, looking at Rachel with respect. "You hit the Lord of the Titans in the eye with a blue pla...
RICK RIORDAN Grover was sniffing the wind, looking nervous. He fished out his acorns and threw them into the sand...
RICK RIORDAN Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga...
RICK RIORDAN She looked at me, like she was drinking in the fact that I was still here. And I realized I was doin...
RICK RIORDAN The world was collapsing, and the only thing that really mattered to me was that she was alive.
RICK RIORDAN How did you die?"
"We er....drowned in a bathtub."
"All three of you?"
"It was a big ...
RICK RIORDAN Love conquers all," Aphrodite promised. "Look at Helen and Paris. Did they let anything come between...
RICK RIORDAN Ever had a flying burrito hit you? Well, it's a deadly projectile, right up there with cannonballs a...
RICK RIORDAN Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.
RICK RIORDAN I will call him Small Bob," said Bob. "He is a good monster."

End of discussion.The Tita...
RICK RIORDAN We’ve arrived,” Leo announced. “Time to Split.”
Frank groaned. “Can we leave Valdez i...
RICK RIORDAN Wow. When he started looking back on the war with Kronos as the good old days--that was sad.
RICK RIORDAN Images flashed through his mind. He saw Nico and his sister on a snowy mountain cliff in Maine, Perc...
RICK RIORDAN You promised, Seaweed brain. We would not get separated! Ever again!
RICK RIORDAN Nico, I've seen a lot of brave things. But what you just did? That was maybe the bravest.
RICK RIORDAN Annabeth?” Percy said again. “You’re planning something. You’ve got that I’m-planning-s...
RICK RIORDAN