Helplessness and anger make for predictable behavior: Children are certain to shove each other and pull hair, teenagers will call each other names and cry, and grown women who are sisters will say words so cruel that each syllable will take on the form of a snake, although such a snake often circles in on itself to eat its own tail once the words are said aloud.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds. YAKOV SMIRNOFF There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understa... JACK MA A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD Each day we understand better what the Indians say, and they us, so that very often we are intelligi... CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS Women are so strong and knowledgeable. You know, instead of competing with each other, I would love ... MARIE OSMOND Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other w... FERNANDO PESSOA Some people love but will never marry each other. Some are married to but have never loved and will ... MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA Words are pale shadows of forgotten names. As names have power, words have power. Words can light fi... PATRICK ROTHFUSS There were a few words and a few looks at each other on the pitch, but not much was said. ROBERT PIRES I still have enough faith in language to believe that if I place enough words next to each other on ... DEXTER PALMER They are competing with each other for who will be the first person. SAEED LAYLAZ Computers tend to separate us from each other - Mum's on the laptop, Dad's on the iPad, teen... TOM HODGKINSON Women have to support each other more. Women get women. We understand each other when we are happy o... ASHLEY GRAHAM Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER THERESA Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at eac... MOTHER TERESA OF CALCUTTA The Palestinians did not live, ever, the idea of cohabitation, of having two rival factions leading ... WADIA ABU NASSER We've grown so accustomed to each other this year. We're always able to find each other on the ice. ... BEN KINNE On average, the Chinese, Koreans, and Japanese are more similar to each other and are different from... J. PHILIPPE RUSHTON Where there seems to be a difference between guys being nuts and women being nuts is that guys are m... PAUL FEIG "There are things you do because they feel right and they make no sense and they make no money and i... DOROTHY STANG I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so w... BARRY SANDERS Anger and stubborness are bestfriends, they need each other for fuel. JACKSON TAVIRI No matter how many years passed or how much responsibility each assumed, they still managed to bicke... LAUREN WEISBERGER We will rebuild because it is important to the community that we are here, ... People have not been ... HAROLD ROBERTS How love works: Proximity leads to intimacy, and intimacy leads to a relationship. In other words, p... OLIVER GASPIRTZ A meeting between two people who complete each other, who are made for each other, borders already, ... ADOLF HITLER Misbehavior and punishment are not opposites that cancel each other - on the contrary they breed and... HAIM G. GINOTT A lot of the time I will go in a room and see that three or four animals right next door to each oth... JOSEPH GARNER I feel like our culture is so good at pulling other people down and being so judgmental, but there... TRACEE ELLIS ROSS You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN We are responsible for ourselves and each other. RODEL NATIVIDAD CASIO We never get into it with each other. We might take a little jab at each other, but it's always in f... BILL WOLFORD Ugly people are not attracted to each other, they just often settle for each other. CARL WHITE Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is si... ANONYMOUS It's a commonly expressed and rather nice, romantic notion that we are all "sisters" and "brothers."... VERA NAZARIAN The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold descript... FREDA ADLER We will find each other again, and maybe the stars will have changed, and we will not only love each... NICHOLAS SPARKS They said a lot of things to each other that night, but nothing that involved words. MICHAEL GRANT The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees ar... TORI AMOS Unless your heart, your soul, and your whole being are behind every decision you make, the words fro... OSCAR WILDE When two friends understand each other totally, the words are soft and strong like an orchid's perfu... CHARLES KINGSLEY We owe each other a debt and we owe each other an obligation, and because of these fundamental Ameri... CHARLIE PIERCE It will take some time to figure out what the dynamics of the court are. It will take them awhile to... ANDREW KOPPELMAN Being put on top of each other and forced to masturbate, being naked in front of each other — i... BERNARD HAYKEL YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the autho... NEIL GAIMAN When we die, we will turn into songs, and we will hear each other and remember each other. ROB SHEFFIELD Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which ... A. R. RAHMAN Human nature is such that people are born with a love of profit If they follow these inclinations, t... XUN KUANG We expect that the Government will follow through on its promises, and we will release a statement o... ANTON NIKIFOROV The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a ... DEAN KOONTZ You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS You will say things with a merry tongue; you are not one for graceless words and no one will take of... NOELLA MENON My dad used to say that the holidays are when you get a whole bunch of people that really aren't tha... PHIL MCGRAW For each other, at each other: Sisters can be either or both. The same could be said of people in an... DEBORAH TANNEN Maybe all that matters is that they love each other, still, the way people who have known each other... BETH KEPHART He's (Pearson) been here before, and he's very popular. He will bring a python, whose name is Dragon... GINA MASON We say hello to each other now and we are pleasant to each other, but it doesn't go any further than... ANDREW FLINTOFF Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenme... MALCOLM X Otherwise, the people will be living on top of each other, under extreme weather conditions, which w... KRIS JANOWSKI Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle... MARK TWAIN We are the same, and we are different. We are the same because we all are members of the same human ... JONATHAN CHEN Wrong fails because it is wrong. The wrongs, the untruths, are inconsistent with each other. They cl... EDWARD EVERETT HALE Nations, like individuals in a state of nature, are equal and independent, possessing certain rights... MILLARD FILLMORE Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship... MARK EPSTEIN Of course, rivals do affect athletes mentally, but if you are competing with top-notch athletes, you... LIU XIANG We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia -- countries that are now in transiti... STJEPAN MESIC We are three countries that emerged from the former Yugoslavia - countries that are now in transitio... STJEPAN MESIC Between Countess Nordston and Levin there had been established those relations, not infrequent in so... LEO TOLSTOY We don't have realistic expectations of other women, that we're human and make mistakes and get sick... KATE FILLION The Laborer and the Snake
A snake, having made his hole close to the porch of a cottage, inflicted a... AESOP That will help bring in cars and fans. The guys who are running for the points, which are usually th... DON HAMMER A palindrome is a word or pattern that instead of developing in different directions it folds in on ... TODD SOLONDZ You see, we are here, as far as I can tell, to help each other; our brothers, our sisters, our frien... STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not wi... WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN In truth, the only restrictions on our capacity to astonish ourselves and each other are imposed by ... DAVID BLAINE The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS Some positive persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you wi... ALEXANDER POPE All of the prospective locations have infrastructure strengths and other qualities that essentially ... JEFFREY LIKER We'll have lots and lots of partners meeting each other from each firm. We take that seriously. Thes... GREG JORDAN The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have b... NICHOLAS SPARKS We women often gauge our own self-worth by the quality of our interactions with our lovers. And ofte... CARRIE PRESTON Friendships are what our dreams are made of. We hold onto each other with its binding love. We stand... ELISABETH FOLEY This oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu Achillea...but to our ... LESLEY LIVINGSTON My vision of a real humanity is of pure individuals relating to each other, but not tied in any rela... BHAGWAN SHREE RAJNEESH We are the children of a womb. Yet we differentiate each other, On color, creed and the si... SHILLPI S BANERRJI Humans — who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals — have had an understand... CARL SAGAN It's all a part of working on your craft. There's a reason that fencing has always been included in ... ERIC BRYANT You have to feel comfortable where you're working out to stick with it. Other women that are working... JAMIE MECIMORE The sons of York will destroy each other, one brother destroying another, uncles devouring nephews, ... PHILIPPA GREGORY There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when they... ERNEST HELLO There are men who would quickly love each other if once they were speak to each other; for when th... ERNEST HELLO I think we need to focus on the basics, not the marquee names and causes. Just saying 'thank you' an... MICHAEL GLOVER Teenagers are like atoms when they're moving at hundreds of miles an hour and bouncing off each ... ANTON YELCHIN I can’t be forgiven so I am not asking you for forgiveness. We lost each other, and we will never ... ANTONIA MICHAELIS We know each other, we visit each other and in times of crisis, we pull together. We cannot let the ... EMILY SMITH What a world this will be when human possibilities are freed, when we discover each other, when the ... W. E. B. DU BOIS I heard you were a player , okay , lets play a game. We'll flirt, play fights, talk 24/7,... LYLA TYELA BELIKOV
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PAUL HOFFMAN There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then... MARY HOFFMAN The city took it upon themselves to reclaim the site for reuse. It was never approved by the agencie... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's one thing for someone to walk a dog up there. I walked out there many times myself. It's anothe... ANDREW HOFFMAN Not many people get to say what I say about my team. When I practice, I'm practicing with some of th... ANDREW HOFFMAN It's been a great season for me. My times got consistently faster the whole year. ANDREW HOFFMAN (The 200 free relay) was actually the best part of my whole day, winning that relay. Because the 500... ANDREW HOFFMAN About halfway down that second 25, I realized I was ahead of everyone else. I just put my head down ... ANDREW HOFFMAN I think we have a good chance to win county. We have more experience and team depth this year than w... ANDREW HOFFMAN It worked out perfect. I was so happy with how it went. I was so proud of my teammates and everyone.... ANDREW HOFFMAN As long as it was close, I was going to bring it home, and I was going to win it. ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything. ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources... REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive... PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest. BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun. ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time). ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all. ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer. ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible... AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes... AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate. AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug. AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit. AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get. AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your... AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil... ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow... REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ... REID HOFFMAN