He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.
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He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness -- the sense that is where we really belong.
GRAHAM GREENE Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, Albert Camus, Graham Greene - they influenced my life to a profound exte...
PAUL THEROUX We feel very strongly, and our members for many years have felt, that public funds belong in the pub...
BARBARA BARTOLETTI Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever...
CRAIG CLEVENGER For a while we were chasing a book by Graham Greene to do Brighton Rock as a musical. We didn't ...
NEIL TENNANT We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and fi...
MAYA ANGELOU Graham Greene, as I understand it, was quite outspoken in his criticism of American foreign policy.
BRENDAN FRASER My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good w...
JAMES D. WATSON I grew up reading genre writers, and to the degree that Eric Ambler and Graham Greene are genre writ...
ALAN FURST we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI 'The Third Man,' directed by Carol Reed and written by Graham Greene, is, quite simply, one ...
ELVIS MITCHELL I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister.
TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma...
TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th...
TRISHA LEAVER We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot com...
NICK HORNBY From Graham Greene, I learnt how to be an accessible writer who grapples with our doubts as sentient...
DOUGLAS KENNEDY We felt that we came really well prepared. But we haven't been able to feel comfortable on the ice.
MARIA POULSEN I have Graham Greene's telephone number, but I wouldn't dream of using it. I don't seek ...
PATRICIA HIGHSMITH Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable--they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belo...
LYSA TERKEURST Cole Sear: Some magic's real.
THE SIXTH SENSE I have not discussed that with anybody in the organization, to this point, so where that came from I...
THE SIXTH SENSE We feel really good that we are where we ought to be.
JERRY DAVIS I am a Graham Greene fan - I'm just a ferocious reader. I read an awful lot when I get the time.
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH Certainly, my exposure in high school to writers like Flannery O'Connor, Shusaku Endo, Fyodor Do...
PHIL KLAY I'm kind of a mash-up of taste - Graham Greene and Jane Austen; W.G. Sebald and Alice Munro.
AMY WALDMAN It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.
CHANG-RAE LEE Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES I really don't feel this is the way we felt we were going to play today. I really feel disappointed ...
BILLY HARRISON This is really, we felt like, the first week he really stepped up.
HOUSTON NUTT The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS I said to Sen. Coleman that we could readily understand the way he might feel. We could readily unde...
DENNIS RICHARDSON He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, ...
TERRY PRATCHETT What will happen if we go to 0 day?
...
Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER Loyalty means usage, and that's where we make the money.
JULIE LOEGER Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying.
We decide to go out walking the wh...
TEGAN QUIN In other countries where biking is as common as driving, motorists feel like they don't belong on th...
JAMES MOORE My parents were interested in history and the world. My father read Graham Greene and Georges Simeno...
ROBERT HARRIS This is really the most we can do from where we are. All of us that came here today felt like we sho...
AMANDA BROWN I don't give plots to Harold Robbins or Graham Greene, because they don't need them, but a l...
MICHAEL KORDA If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We felt that under the circumstances, it made perfect sense to honor his request, ... We are happy t...
GEORGE STEVENS He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.
GRAHAM GREENE The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL In order to understand more it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which sid...
J.P. ROBINSON In order to understand more, it is imperative that we improve our knowledge before choosing which si...
J.P. ROBINSON I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is wher...
RAVI ZACHARIAS Standing on the edge of that darkness, she felt the stirrings of reckless want. A wild sort of brave...
EMILY LLOYD-JONES Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
CRAIG GROESCHEL So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel ...
FERNANDO PESSOA That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it.
EMINEM I live on the same block where I grew up. We belong to the same parish where I was baptized. Janesvi...
PAUL RYAN I work every day until I do not have more to say. I learned from Graham Greene that a very good way ...
HENNING MANKELL We felt, as a staff, we're going to start Thompson. We feel that he has earned it to this point.
BOB STOOPS To believe that if we could but have this or that we would be happy is to suppress the realization t...
ERIC HOFFER But that is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel.
MARK TWAIN I feel most at home in the water. I disappear. That's where I belong.
MICHAEL PHELPS I feel connected to that idea of wanting to belong to something, to have a sense of purpose as a man...
JEREMY RENNER I do not start with a full knowledge of the facts; the whole attraction of writing history is to edu...
MICHAEL KORDA You must never stay at the station where you feel unhappy! Unhappiness combined with inaction always...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN When we are really honest with ourselves we must admit our lives are all that really belong to us. S...
CESAR CHAVEZ We are playing with a greater sense of urgency, and Allen is leading us. I really feel like he's the...
KYLE KORVER I expressed my unhappiness about Mel leaving. That's no secret, ... The man gave his life and loyalt...
JOE TORRE I always thought we shouldn't have been in 4A in the first place. In '99, we skipped from 2A to 4A. ...
CHARLES ROSSER It was very hard. But I really felt a peace about it. We knew that was where we were supposed to be.
CINDY KRAFT Many women have told me they remember where they were when they read the book, and how they felt sud...
CAROL GILLIGAN We need a bunch of these kinds of finishes in a row to work our way up in the points where I feel we...
AARON FIKE There's a point for things we create where they don't belong to us anymore; when others love them, t...
VANNA BONTA In researching 'The Luminaries,' I did read quite a lot of 20th-century crime. My favourites...
ELEANOR CATTON Graham Greene's work must be included in any survey of top-rank spy novels, and 'Our Man in ...
ALAN FURST We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO He gave everything to everybody. Except to me.
J.K. ROWLING Sometimes I feel alone because where I belong is so far away.
L.Jennel Stephens
LATOYA J. STEPHENS The further limits of our being plunge, it seems to me, into an altogether other dimension of existe...
WILLIAM JAMES We really research areas where we go in. We felt it was a perfect location for us to branch out.
HEATHER WARD This was a new feeling this year. I've never felt that sense of urgency heading into the final round...
JUDE ROTH Writing about Africa by Africans has been part of my literary apprenticeship, standing alongside wor...
GILES FODEN Last year we felt we got cheated out a little bit, ... We were still happy where we were at. Now tha...
DARNELL BING ...there are often many things we feel we should do that, in fact, we don't really have to do. Getti...
ELAINE ST. JAMES I think, probably, the place that I feel I most belong is a movie set. It doesn't matter where i...
ANYA TAYLOR-JOY The Southerner does not have to labor to learn some things. We already know from the start who we ar...
DONALD DAVIDSON We were really proud that the county commission listened. We really felt like we were the underdog.
KATIE CHESSER My thoughts just now are with Graham. He has lost his job, and that was harsh. I feel strongly about...
JIM DUFFY Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you c...
LANA WACHOWSKI Every time we got pressure on Greene, ... he stepped up in the pocket, avoided the rush and made a g...
COREY WEBSTER My loyalty to my party ends where my loyalty to the country begins.
MANUEL L. QUEZON We really need outside shooting, and we felt Luke Jackson would fit that bill for us. We feel we hav...
PAUL SILAS He told us Thursday he felt some fatigue, and we really don't know much specifically beyond that.
DAVE LITTLEFIELD As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may thin...
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Ah, but one ca...
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BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo...
BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s...
BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl...
BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans...
BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics.
BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor...
BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa...
BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo...
BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ...
SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane.
ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.
NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.
NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin...
NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang.
BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib...
ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ...
ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good.
ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that.
ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott...
ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con...
ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens.
ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do.
ALAN GREENE