He wasn't an alchemist, or a hero. He was a librarian, and a dreamer. He was a reader, and the unsung expert on a long-lost city no one cared a thing about.
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Related When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing w... A.A. MILNE Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and s... CARTER CROCKER When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live wi... JOAN POWERS Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?' 'Supposing it didn't,' said Pooh... A.A. MILNE How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER Unsubscribe from should-a, would-a, could-a MICHAEL H. DANSBURY A successful teacher is one who has atleast 2 students in his class, one who sees no reason to study... APURVA GAGLANI blackmagic on a person
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blackmagic on a pe... ASTRODOST A godmother is always there and genuine.The help she has given will never be forgotten but will glis... GARY F EVANS... If tomorrow was yesterday then yesterday would be tomorrow, if we think about the past why not think... GARY F EVANS... Start seeing a way for yourself. Stop seeing a way for others. APURVA GAGLANI and the girl and I get into her car and drive off into the hills and we go to her room and I take of... BRET EASTON ELLIS History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN People go on about places like Starbucks being unpersonal and all that, but what if that's what you ... NICK HORNBY You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'm not saying that I'm better than anyone... I'm just saying that I'm one-of-a-kind. C LIONG We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL He's so slow that he takes an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes. EDWIN EDWARDS Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w... PIERCE BROWN When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man. STANLEY KUBRICK When he entered the anteroom, two women looked up at him. One was Miss Robertson, the governor's sec... GEORGE P. ELLIOTT If Stephen King was a killer, he will be the best killer ever existed, check out his novels, check o... DEYTH BANGER they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The best way to learn to be a lady is to see how other ladies do it. MAE WEST There are no ugly women, only lazy ones HELENA RUBINSTEIN Nobody objects to a woman being a good writer or sculptor or geneticist if at the same time she mana... LESLIE MCINTYRE Personally, I think if a women hasn't met the right man by the time she's 24, she may be lucky DEBORAH KERR Outward beauty is not enough; to be attractive a woman must use words, wit, playfulness, sweet-talk,... PETRONIUS If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't... HELEN LAWRENSON Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, "She doesn... CLARE BOOTHE LUCE The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could g... BETTY GRABLE Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men. JOSEPH CONRAD There is in every true woman's heart, a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad dayl... WASHINGTON IRVING I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the fi... GILDA RADNER I don't want to end up simply having visited this world. MARY OLIVER The person that gives you a good book to read is more valuable than the one that gives you money,bec... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Endeavour to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gr... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good quote is far better than the best selling books. ANUJ SOMANY It's the curiosity that drives me. It's making a difference in the world that prevents me from ever ... DEBORAH MEIER Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as w... MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN You don’t have to know a lot of things for your life to make a lasting difference in the world. Bu... JOHN PIPER I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because... EDWARD EVERETT HALE Endeavor to get a good name,because if you do,you will be indirectly making life easier for your gre... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A man who loves a bad name cares less about the future of his great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) It is good to appreciate anothers good deeds, but let not your good deeds be known to others lest th... APURVA GAGLANI If given an opportunity to head an establishment,resite this "A good name will last better for my fa... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) If you have inherited a bad name from your parent,edit it,by becoming good,but if you are lucky to h... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often... MALCOLM COWLEY Your mind will believe comforting lies while also knowing the painful truths that make those lies ne... PATRICK NESS No matter who you are and what you do, you can prove to yourself that you can be anybody you want to... BLABLABLA Diamond & platinum are the obstacles that always stand in the way of a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To worry about the past will bring devastation in the future. CASEY ALEXANDER SCHOTT Life is a tightrope to keep your balance you have to keep on going. If you fall off it is game over.... GARY F EVANS... Let us endeavor to have a good name,for in so doing we are sowing good seeds,that will one day be ha... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A new day simply means all our errors of the previous day has been forgiven us,we can now re-begin a... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A new year is another vantage opportunity to re-strategize the venture called life. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) [He considers me] just a uterus with legs. MARY BETH WHITEHEAD During times of sour or bad relationship a good person will always exhibit a pleasant character. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) In this life it is good to have the experience of raising a child from infant stage to adulthood,be ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is a more bankable & valuable inheritance than diamond & platinum. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name will open doors that diamond & platinum dare not. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) People themselves makes a lots of mistakes and still loves himself,
and they never forget a single m... OM BENIWAL If you think you are too small to make a difference, you have obviously never been in bed with a mos... PETER STROPLE A life without problems is a life less likely to be. VANCE B.. CHAN Beautiful things happen in your life,if you distance yourself from all the negative things. DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA A great idea is like a fast moving train without brake & all contrary minds that crosses its path wi... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A great man even when dead,his name will continue to elicit greatness for generations to come. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all ... R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER Remember what to do when you're at the bottom of a hole? You've got to stop digging. CAROLYN MACKLER They may not have enough of their own to take a stand, but they can do it if someone shows them how. DAN GROAT You can not change what happened or bring back the past. But you can change the future by being stro... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Make a difference always and in all ways! PETER STROPLE Is science fiction of today to be tomorrow's science fact, if we think of it the idea of the flip ph... GARY F EVANS... The standard of a true leader is that he sets also his own rules than merely and blindly obeys the s... ANUJ SOMANY A good name can open ways for your great grand children. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) A good name is the only insurance we need against the monster called poverty. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) The best inheritance a man can leave for his children is not diamond & platinum,but a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) All the riches in life are incomparable to a good name. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way he/she handles these three things: a ... MAYA ANGELOU Even if other things remains unspoken in your life,a good name will continually speak for you, even ... DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) To know the hurt of what losing a loved one brings. Well put it this way time does not heal, you lea... GARY F EVANS... When the prospects of fame fortune bring thought to a life of no worry, it brings other worries in t... GARY F EVANS... The light of a great man shines for generations to come. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about. DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US HE'S NEVER TOOK A SICK DAY ! MITCHELL GREEN To know wisdom is to be all knowledgeable ,to use that knowledge for the greater good is to no that ... GARY F EVANS... Oh, it makes a difference, I thought. And if it doesn't make a difference you will make it make a di... CHAIM POTOK
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LAINI TAYLOR She had been innocent once, a little girl playing with feathers on the floor of a devil's lair. She ... LAINI TAYLOR Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. ... LAINI TAYLOR It was brave," countered Issa. "It was rare. It was love, and it was beautiful. LAINI TAYLOR How much does your life have to suck to want the Apocalypse? LAINI TAYLOR As long as you're alive, there's always a chance things will get better." "Or worse," said Lira... LAINI TAYLOR Boredom is a terrible affliction of the soulless. LAINI TAYLOR All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like veg... LAINI TAYLOR The streets of Prague were a fantasia scarcely touched by the twenty-first century—or the twentiet... LAINI TAYLOR The door opened. She looked in the mirror and suppressed a curse. Slipping in behind some tourists, ... LAINI TAYLOR Lo que más deseo es estar a tu lado y ayudarte. Y, si nos hace falta una eternidad, mucho mejor, po... LAINI TAYLOR Existe el pasado, y también el futuro. El presente no es más que el único segundo que divide la u... LAINI TAYLOR El Amor es un Elemento. --- Akiva LAINI TAYLOR War is all we've been taught, but there are other ways to live. We can find them, Akiva. We can inve... LAINI TAYLOR I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party... ROD TAYLOR I think every fight is a tough fight, but I'm not settling for a bronze medal. KATIE TAYLOR Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h... TAYLOR SWIFT Never judge a stranger by his clothes. ZACHARY TAYLOR When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo... TAYLOR SWIFT In reference to the Army and Navy, lately employed with so much distinction on active service, care ... ZACHARY TAYLOR I congratulate you, my fellow-citizens, upon the high state of prosperity to which the goodness of D... ZACHARY TAYLOR In all disputes between conflicting governments, it is our interest not less than our duty to remain... ZACHARY TAYLOR As American freemen, we cannot but sympathize in all efforts to extend the blessings of civil and po... ZACHARY TAYLOR Economy I consider a virtue & should be practiced by all; there is certainly no way in which mon... ZACHARY TAYLOR I cannot in any case permit myself to be brought before the people, exclusively, by any of the polit... ZACHARY TAYLOR The confidence and respect shown by my countrymen in calling me to be the Chief Magistrate of a Repu... ZACHARY TAYLOR The idea that I should become president seems to me too visionary to require a serious answer. It ha... ZACHARY TAYLOR I know enough of the family life of officers. I scarcely know my own children or they me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me. ZACHARY TAYLOR I have never yet exercised the privilege of voting, but had I been called upon at the last president... ZACHARY TAYLOR My wife was as much of a soldier as I was. ZACHARY TAYLOR It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. ZACHARY TAYLOR In no case can I permit myself to be a candidate of any party or yield myself to any party schemes. ZACHARY TAYLOR The appointing power vested in the president imposes delicate and onerous duties. So far as it is po... ZACHARY TAYLOR I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, whic... ZACHARY TAYLOR Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man ... ZACHARY TAYLOR As to the Constitution and the Union, I have taken an oath to support the one, and I cannot do so wi... ZACHARY TAYLOR I've been focused on detecting nuclear terrorism at ports, in cargo containers, and I developed ... TAYLOR WILSON Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor,... TAYLOR WILSON I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the Presiden... TAYLOR WILSON I have too many ideas for a lifetime. TAYLOR WILSON There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents. TAYLOR WILSON When I was 10 years old, that nuclear spark hit me. Whatever it may be, I really don't know what... TAYLOR WILSON I developed a counterterrorism device that's revolutionizing the way we detect nuclear materials... TAYLOR WILSON If you look at the scientists who really make a difference, they think boldly. They're not afrai... TAYLOR WILSON These days, the scientific community accepts me. But getting to that point was tremendously hard, an... TAYLOR WILSON I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years... TAYLOR WILSON When I hold something that's radioactive, it's kind of an indescribable feeling. It's ki... TAYLOR WILSON As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but ... TAYLOR WILSON My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. I... TAYLOR WILSON I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, bec... TAYLOR WILSON I don't mean to offend anybody, but I think that we get a lot of scientists now who are bent int... TAYLOR WILSON