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GREG PATTON And Jonathan gave his artillery unto his lad, and said unto him, Go, carry them to the city.
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CRAIG PATRICK I wasn't expecting the grades to jump that much. They kept pushing him to do his best.
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ELLE KENNEDY I am so tired ever my tiredness is tired.
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HOPE TRENT His training has kept him sharp,
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JEAN WAGNER He does it on his terms, his music, and that's what makes him so much better.
CLAUDIA RODRIGUEZ There's no question that it will hurt him and it will hurt him significantly. He's still getting the...
NORMAN ORNSTEIN He is under contract. He has refused to render his services, and so we have not paid him for his ser...
STEVE PATTERSON Home was merely a dull ache in the back of his memory. A tiredness in his eyes.
ORSON SCOTT CARD Running on the rocks barefoot with his feet burned so bad was what hurt him the most.
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JONATHAN FRANZEN Once a killer, always a killer.
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JONATHAN FRANZEN Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... non-reality was black, and it didn't hurt so much.
STEPHENIE MEYER His family meant so much to him. We're going to miss him.
DONNA PARSONS He kind of moved so I hit his knee. I was kind of low but I didn't want to hurt him, I just wanted t...
ANDREJ MESZAROS They kept pushing him to do his best.
CHERYL MORRIS His ball had so much movement. You just knew someday it might happen for him.
SCOTT MADDOX Strigoi have red eyes, " I explained. "Do his eyes look red?"
The boy leaned forward. "No. The...
RICHELLE MEAD The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem a...
JOHN GREEN I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But be...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN He kept him as the apple of his eye.
BIBLE He was so mean it hurt him to go to the bathroom.
BRITT EKLAND I'm sure Officer Naismith wishes it hadn't happened. A lot of other people wish it hadn't happened. ...
DON JETER I didn’t even feel sadness so much as pain. It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a b...
JOHN GREEN She stayed with Bill until the paramedics came and kept him talking, so Bill wasn't alone. That gift...
MICHAEL DAVIS It was just so wonderful to hear his voice. He just told everyone how much they meant to him and how...
LARRY HUGHES She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
BOB FOSSE You are awake,” Phillip said from his side. “I feared you were permanently injured.” “The da...
JAMES RILEY He will know how much his dad loved him. He loved him so much, and that's what I want him to always ...
MAE RHYNES Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so...
MARGARET ATWOOD It's just hard to see a friend hurt this much. Especially when you can't do anything except 'be ther...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I want to hit him, step away and watch him hurt. I want his heart.
JOE FRAZIER His faith was like the radar of a bat, it took him through the darkness that surrounded him. It woul...
MARK A. COOPER His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.
MAE WEST His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork
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JOHN GREEN Look!" Hawkeye said.
Duke looked where Hawkeye was pointing. In one corner, kneeling on the di...
RICHARD HOOKER It was not so much his scoring and rebounding, but it was his presence. Teams focus a lot on him and...
JOE HICKS Stan Jonathan was one of the toughest guys I've ever seen, but after a fight his face would look lik...
DICK TODD a man of peace who did so much in his life. We know him so well, miss him so much and can only share...
PATRICK MOYNIHAN I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It h...
ERIC CLAPTON Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than w...
MANDY HALE I kept looking down the bench to see if Steve was coming back, so much so I may have whiplash. But t...
MIKE D'ANTONI She not only kept her lovely figure, she's added so much to it.
BOB FOSSE I delete the picture of him from my phone; I delete his number. I think that if I just delete him en...
JENNY HAN 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 I take my hand back, like a leaf letting go. It hurts too much to hang on. So why does it hurt so mu...
EMILY MURDOCH It hurt his art, and it hurt his soul, ... And it covered up the symptoms of his health problems.
DENNIS MCNALLY Nothing reflects so much honor on a workman as a trial of his work and its endurance of it. So it is...
CHARLES SPURGEON Shane Murphy taught me so much, he was like my older brother, ... Every day I would just watch him a...
JAMES LYNCH There were things I wanted to tell him. But I knew they would hurt him. So I buried them, and let th...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Jonathan Edwards - he has his faith, his health, his wife and his children, but more importantly, he...
BRIAN ALEXANDER In some instances, you may care so much about the person who has hurt you, or be so unable to be ang...
PAUL EKMAN Our county is so big that we don't think that it would hurt us too much.
ELAINE BARKDULL It was important for him to believe that he'd spent his life among people who kept missing the point...
DON DELILLO He loved Great Valley football so much. It meant so much to him.
HAL HONIG Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
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JONATHAN SWIFT Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
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JONATHAN SWIFT We have a choice: to plow new ground or let the weeds grow.
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A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserte...
JONATHAN RABAN But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT There are two sorts of hypocrites; ones that are deceived with their outward morality and external r...
JONATHAN EDWARDS Attitudes to museums have changed. If it had Marilyn Monroe's knickers or Laurence Olivier's jockstr...
JONATHAN MILLER Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
JONATHAN EDWARDS I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT A bad forgery's the ultimate insult.
JONATHAN GASH Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a
pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT