He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
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Related He would lay here holding her as long as it took and he didn't really care how long that might be. S... SHAYNA VARADEAUX When I spoke with his widow today, she spoke touchingly about how important he felt this work was an... PETER HARDER He believed in what he was doing. He was protecting his country, and he was doing his job because he... MALIA FRY Get to know two things about a man. How he earns his money and how he spends it. You will then have ... ROBERT J. MCCRACKEN She was the wish of his life. He didn’t know how else to say it. He didn’t even know that he cou... C.J. CARLYON Clive thought of his work in totality, of how varied and rich it seemed whenever he was able to rais... IAN MCEWAN And Harry remembered his first nightmarish trip into the forest, the first time he had ever encounte... J.K. ROWLING He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told he... NEIL GAIMAN Menyara's Creole accent was as thick as his mother's jar of refrigerated roux, and Nick loved the so... SHERRILYN KENYON He wondered what his heart would look like if he could pluck it from his chest and inspect it. DAVID ESTES He was astonished at how calm he found he was. Fear of death had always energised him, making him mo... K.J. PARKER We are all impressed by how strong he is and how much he is fighting. He is just a real warrior, it ... JOSE COHEN He has an incredible work ethic. He is driven for success and he has his priorities straight. It sho... DOUG SCHREIBER Dane convinced me that he was up to becoming our head coach by his résumé, which was amazing, and ... MARK POPE I thought of how proud he was when he took the marks- cutting the skin of his throat in a long slash... HOLLY BLACK After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for hi... J.R.R. TOLKIEN And Harry saw very clearly as he sat there under the hot sun how people who cared about him had stoo... J.K. ROWLING It was a much different experience this time around, ... He knew it was out of his hands, first of a... MARC BROUSSARD He’d lived in the desert all his life, and he loved it. He was its child. It was his home. TONY TAYLOR He wanted to tell her how much he preferred to look at her, that only by watching could he memorize ... JERZY KOSINKSI As long as a human being worries about when he will die,and what he has that is his,all of his works... KABIR Brian really kicked back on his own when Amanda was a baby. We had a long talk about it, and he was ... ERIKA SLEZAK No matter how far he can go in his entire life.
No matter how much he can achieve in his entire life... KAZERONNIE MAK He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo... THOMAS WOLFE It is not awkward at all. There is a hierarchy and you follow the hierarchy. He is the defensive coo... CHAD BROWN Slowly, very slowly, he sat up, and as he did so he felt more alive, and more aware of his own livin... J.K. ROWLING He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whethe... DOUGLAS ADAMS For the song 'Truth or Consequence,' me and [bassist Mick Morris] had this friend from Salt Lake Cit... JAMES HART His success is all to him. It's all a matter of how he thinks each night and how he prepares for eac... BRIAN BECKWITH [The customer] asked how much he owed, and when he was told $33 he demanded that Harry give him all ... SANTOSH MAHEY He was telling us all that he loved us, and we told him it was OK, he could go to all his friends, a... DONNA JOHNSON Germany was his favorite place to live, he said, because, even as a child, he could tell how much th... IMBOLO MBUE Aerric took another sip of his whiskey as his manservant left the room. His thoughts had distracted ... BRYNN MYERS He had just brought back a Central Asian Shepherd dog for my parents and a ring that was a gift from... JENNIFER WESTER He started talking about his wife and how she was taking advantage of him, spending his money, ... H... GARY MCLARTY He did tell me that 'In Cold Blood' scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. That's how he phras... GERALD CLARKE He didn't place and finished 3-2. He was a little disgusted, frustrated with his performance. He tho... CASEY SCHWEITZER I thought it was his arm, I didn't know his face was in the way. When I walked over there, he wasn't... BRANDON CLAUSSEN He was making all kinds of sounds apparently with his mouth, and shaking his head and I thought, gos... ROBERT RIPLEY He was beaten (he knew that); but he was not broken. He saw, once for all, that he stood no chance a... JACK LONDON He was the outstanding musical genius of all time, when you think of how much he wrote and how long ... JAMES GALWAY The Will of God is the same for all. He has no favorites within His household. All He has ever done ... EDDIE CAPPARUCCI Next o'er his books his eyes began to roll,
In pleasing memory of all he stole;
How here he si... ALEXANDER POPE He obliterates things, she realized. He shatters them. They think they've won because he's a ... NICK HARKAWAY When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself,he is very careful about how much he sp... MILTON FRIEDMAN The stars were out in full, the crickets a little quieter. He had enjoyed talking to Allie and wonde... NICHOLAS SPARKS We're not doing this because he was the first Hispanic player to have 3,000 hits, or because he was ... FERNANDO MATEO He is a true hero to us here. He enjoyed what he was doing, and we're sure he gave it his all. CLAY COCKE He's doing all right. He didn't have his hopes up for a different [charge] at this point. He, like u... DONALD MANASSE He never even thought of tenderness and emotion; his considerations about Durham remained cold. Durh... E.M. FORSTER All at once it was just too much, and Harvey felt something about to snap. He drew back into the sha... YUKAKO KABEI He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and... NEIL GAIMAN He said he had accomplished all that he could in those four years, and it was time for him to get ba... BOB MITCHELL He's just earned his stripes. It's been a natural maturation process. I came here five years ago and... BOBBY ENGRAM To his surprise he felt a moment of regret, of sadness that his quest for his mother and father woul... J.G. BALLARD He slouched back in his seat, looking tired, and leaned his face on his shoulder to look at me while... MAGGIE STIEFVATER The main thing about Bruce Lee is that, he was a little guy. And you know, his quickness, his aggres... EVANDER HOLYFIELD It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick... FRANCIS COLLINS As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary m... SHERWOOD ANDERSON The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar... HENRY FORD He just messed up, but I don't take it out on him over and over. It happened, but it hurt me how he ... GRADY LOVE When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about how much ... MILTON FRIEDMAN The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he ... SIGMUND FREUD He who must expend his life to prolong life cannot enjoy it, and he who is still seeking for his lif... MAX STIRNER In fact, his travelogues spend amazingly little time discussing his blindness. Only one passage stan... SAM KEAN Because of some of the things he went through early in his career, how hard he works, how important ... HENRY MASON I was showing a man and telling his story and explaining how ill he was, and it was a live camera an... CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR He just had a birthday party. His grandchildren spoke and his grandson said how much he has impacted... SUSAN TUCKER There he was with this gash under his nose, his face all bloody and glass all over him, checking on ... GERRY STEMPLEWICZ He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. THOMAS M DISCH He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well, and he does his deed well ... THOMAS KEMPIS Even though it's not the regular season, it gets the monkey off his back, ... You could see once he ... JEFF HALPERN I think he feels terrible about the mistakes he made. He admitted them in open court today and I thi... JEFFREY STEINBACK You look in the dictionary under 'old pro' and you'll see his picture. He knows how to play the game... GRADY LITTLE Glen cared very much about his grandkids. He cared about his family, and he was a hard worker. JANET JONES He would go to (Washington) D.C. for reserve maneuvers all the time. He was a real worker, all of hi... DIANA PLUTTO He told me to live every day to the fullest, and don't take it for granted. His thoughts were about ... BRENT JOHNSTON In the first inning, he scuffled a little bit. It was reminiscent of his last two starts. Then all o... MIKE HARGROVE She frowned, and the effect was so pretty he wondered if he was going mad. Why did he find this cran... ROS BAXTER I liked everything I read about Braddock, ... I liked who he was before he was a champion, who he wa... RUSSELL CROWE (He) felt lost and alone without his old friend, though he barely recognized him anymore. He wondere... ERIN HUNTER How fine has the day been! how bright was the sun,
How lovely and joyful the course that he run!
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CORMAC MCCARTHY Como si el mundo se encogiera en torno a un núcleo de entidades desglosables. Las cosas cayendo en ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Algunas cosas las olvidas, no? Olvidas lo que quieres recordar y recuerdas lo que quieres olvidar. CORMAC MCCARTHY The things that I loved were very frail. Very fragile. I didn't know that. I thought they were indes... CORMAC MCCARTHY You have my whole heart. You always did. You're the best guy. You always were. CORMAC MCCARTHY It was an old hunter in camp and the hunter shared tobacco with him and told him of the buffalo and ... CORMAC MCCARTHY Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou... CORMAC MCCARTHY But there are no absolutes in human misery and things can always get worse CORMAC MCCARTHY In the end we all come to be cured of our sentiments. Those whom life does not cure death will. CORMAC MCCARTHY He rose and stood tottering in that cold dark with his arms held out for balance while the vestibula... CORMAC MCCARTHY They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the mornin... CORMAC MCCARTHY You know that the things you put it your head stay there, right?' 'Yeah. But you remember some ... CORMAC MCCARTHY When you've nothing else construct ceremonies out of the air and breathe upon them. CORMAC MCCARTHY The cap was gone and the man dropped to his elbows to smell the pipe but the odor of gas was only a ... CORMAC MCCARTHY A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover hi... CORMAC MCCARTHY The arrangement seems to be that UBS will buy Time Warner shares it seems for the voting rights but ... CORMAC BUTLER Icahn wants sufficient control to achieve his strategy of breaking up Time Warner. CORMAC BUTLER In a typical situation the investor accepts a low or zero interest rate in return for exposure to a ... CORMAC BUTLER Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking. JOHN MCCARTHY Compassion is contempt with a human face. JOHN MCCARTHY Black holes destroy any objects that happen to fall victim to their gravitational pull. KEVIN MCCARTHY Comedy to me is all about the bumps and bruises and weird tics. MELISSA MCCARTHY To me, having 500 rolls of fabric around is the most calming thing in the world. I think it's wh... MELISSA MCCARTHY As any small business owner knows, starting a business is not glamorous work. KEVIN MCCARTHY I started my first business when I was 19. I learned a valuable lesson as a small business owner. Yo... KEVIN MCCARTHY Asking a critic to name his favorite book is like asking a butcher to name his favorite pig. JOHN MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY The two-party system has given this country the war of Lyndon Johnson, the Watergate of Nixon, and t... EUGENE MCCARTHY One thing about a pig, he thinks he's warm if his nose is warm. I saw a bunch of pigs one time that ... EUGENE MCCARTHY In politics, it seems, retreat is honorable if dictated by military considerations and shameful if e... MARY MCCARTHY To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, pol... MARY MCCARTHY ...friendship...is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the ag... MARY MCCARTHY Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance? CHARLIE MCCARTHY We all live in suspense from day to day; in other words, you are the hero of your own story. MARY MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith their denomination and ... ALICE MCCARTHY The idea of it is to examine religious issues. They (panelist) are radical in the sense that they go... ALICE MCCARTHY They call us to action to love each other. Just in the correspondence I've been having with them, I ... ALICE MCCARTHY I think that if there is a large number of people here that it will get the churches talking. I thin... ALICE MCCARTHY I'm just absolutely overjoyed. These people have all stayed with their faith â€Ã... ALICE MCCARTHY Honey, nobody ever knows someone completely. You have to just enjoy what you do know and have faith ... ERIN MCCARTHY Why?” she whispered. “Why should I dance with you?” “Because I love you. Because ... ERIN MCCARTHY The happy ending is our national belief. MARY MCCARTHY Any manager who can't get along with a .400 hitter is crazy. JOE MCCARTHY Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift ... MARY MCCARTHY Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. CHARLIE MCCARTHY Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted. MARY MCCARTHY A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traito... MARY MCCARTHY