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how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet


Robert Browning

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How sad and bad and mad it was - / But then, how it was sweet!
ROBERT BROWNING That's how it happen!
DEYTH BANGER It was such a sweet, sad song with such sweet, sad lyrics. Old-fashioned a little, but also timeless...
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BILL DENNIS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN How long?"

His smile was amazingly sweet. "The longest."

For ever?"

MAGGIE STIEFVATER I used to be a drinker but I found out how bad it was and I let it alone.
DAVID EDWARDS I was scared and didn't really know much about cancer and how bad it really was.
BRIAN GOFF They said that love was terrifying and tender, wild and sweet, and none of it made any sense.
B...
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RICHELLE E. GOODRICH It is not how fast a tree grows, but how well. It is not how big a fruit is, but how sweet.
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO He wasn't mad, he was sad.
LIONEL SHRIVER I'm just here to watch, to see who's playing with who and how it works -- how they interact, was it ...
TOM LEHMAN She knew (the hurricane) was bad but not how bad.
DONNA JONES How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then d...
NANA MOUSKOURI The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our abilit...
DALAI LAMA XIV Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character
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KELLY JONES I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." B...
WILLIAM COWPER I don't remember the game but I do remember how sad everyone was.
CHARLES ZANDERS It was a sweet round of jumping and we will see how he comes out of it. I would like to go to Chelte...
PAUL NOLAN Oh, sweet youth, how soon it fades! Sweet joys of youth, how fleeting!
MICHAEL EYQUEN DE MONTAIGNE I don't know how it happened, but the only thing I know is I came off the field, and it was hurting ...
LEONARD LITTLE I was resistant to it at first. But you couldn't ignore the message because of how it was framed and...
DOUG TANNER Actually, the situation was intolerable. But then it was surprising how much intolerableness a man c...
PHILIP JOSé FARMER He had never done it before, and so he had no real understanding of how slow, and sad, and difficult...
HANYA YANAGIHARA We knew today was going to be a disaster. What surprises us was how bad it was was.
BILL DREHER You should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thi...
JOHN GREEN When my YouTube videos started to get really big, I was like, 'Man, this is pretty sweet.' I...
AUSTIN MAHONE I thought it was exciting. I thought it was neat how he practiced three days and then was in there g...
BRENT CELEK My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still bu...
JOHN LASSETER How is it
that there was never you
until there was
and then all was you?
KAMAND KOJOURI How sweet it is!
JACKIE GLEASON It was amazing how good we were, ... I had forgotten how good we could be, because it had gotten so ...
CHARLIE WHITEHURST And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT I thought it was Ball Four and that it hit my jersey. At first I was kind of mad, but then I saw fas...
CRAIG GENTRY How sad, he thought, that desire found new objects but did not abate, that when it came to longing t...
ALLEGRA GOODMAN I heard horror stories about this place but I really didn't know where it was or how to get there. I...
COURTNEY EMKEN I was a really bad kid. Then, I got sweet as I got older.
JOHNNY KNOXVILLE Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON He had a harder time helping her out though. He was asleep while she was doing stars. Without wings,...
LAURIE FRANKEL It was shocking because his mother called me and told me he was in a terrible accident. I didn't kno...
LEE FISHER How was it then reckoned? when he was in circumcision, or in uncircumcision? Not in circumcision, bu...
BIBLE I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
It's the truth one road and tha...
DEYTH BANGER How wonderful life is! How sad to squander it in bitterness, self-loathing and hate!
MARTY RUBIN This memory was both happy and sad: happy because it was so pleasant, and sad because it made Penelo...
MARYROSE WOOD This is just so sad. He was a beautiful little kid. We just can't understand how it happened.
DAISY CASTRO I can't even tell you how bad it was, I couldn't even talk.
KARLA EDWARDS Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at ho...
AKHIL SHARMA I love it here. I wasn't sure how it was going to be, but it was great. It reminded me and my teamma...
DANIELLE TAYLOR It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now...
JOHN MCENROE I think about that a lot. How sweet she was -- she was very dear.
BERNICE JOHNSON Love pull your sore ribs in. I will pull your tangles out.
SARA QUIN The first thing I did was give up sweet tea because I drank so much. I'd start drinking at lunch...
PAULA DEEN How then did it work out, this? How did one judge people, think of them? How did one add up this and...
VIRGINIA WOOLF She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
MARILYN MONROE Little did he know, back then, that the worth of one's faith depended not on how solid and strong it...
ELIF SHAFAK It's been a trend, but it was really bad this time around. It will definitely affect how much work w...
GEORGE DOUGLAS It was inspiring. I was six when she won and I have it on videotape. I play it back now and then to ...
ASIA NAKAKURA How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I lea...
JESSICA BIEL When the terrorists brought terrorism to our shores, I don't think they knew how mad it was going to...
ARMY SGT. We looked at how the system was working, what it was doing, and how it all functioned.
DAVID MORLEY Friends will remind you of how GREAT you are. Anyone who reminds you constantly of how bad it was is...
TROY GATHERS It was just so sweet. It was personally sweet but what he did was actually emotionally right, for th...
YO-YO MA I still don't think that my doctors told me exactly how bad it was. They told my wife. They tried to...
ERNIE ELS telling you how tough it was in the old days -- how cramped it was, how small it was, how lucky you ...
JAY LENO I remember when it happened she didn't know where her father or her aunts or her grandmother was and...
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TERRY PRATCHETT It depends on how good or bad the cello was. She might be better off.
GLENN WILLIAMS Risks can lead to great victories or defeats. Even if you are defeated, the lesson will be valuable ...
LAILAH GIFTYAKITA What a psalm the storm was singing, and how fresh the smell of the washed earth and leaves, and how ...
JOHN MUIR Not only is it sad because you know how much life is lost . . . you know you'll never be able to rep...
LANCE RIPLEY It was like a roller-coaster. You went to the highest part and then dropped down to the lowest part....
JAVY LOPEZ He twice asked me how much it was worth. He then said 'a thousand,' but I never replied,
MICK JAGGER It's very sad, very sad, ... He was just as close to me as if he was my own grandson, and I felt tha...
ROSA PARKS I was a pioneer in MTV and I was there from the very beginning. So I saw how that developed and how ...
DARYL HALL Вече не бях сигурен дали харещите езици на огъня не бях...
Людмила Филипова Нима външността е мерило за ума и душата?! - Баян
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ED ASNER Back then I thought I was the unluckiest person in the world, then I looked at you and smiled. Why? ...
OLASOT (Porter) told us that when Indiana comes in here we will win. It wasn't a guarantee, but it was a co...
EVAN BUSH I met Robert Crumb in 1962; he lived in Cleveland for a while. I took a look at his stuff. Crumb was...
HARVEY PEKAR It was bitter and sweet,
CARL ERSKINE It was sort of something that I had wanted to do, but it was a surprise, ... It's a very interesting...
JULIE KENT I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT For us, coming off those two losses on the road was tough, but it was amazing how we bounced back an...
JULIAN SENSLEY I find it funny how people say "live life as if today was your last day." But then go home and waste...
MILAN STOJILOVIC It was a country . . . that he and his people had known how to use and abuse, but not how to preserv...
WENDELL BERRY I was vaguely aware that people used to hijack planes to Cuba. But I didn't know much about how ...
BRENDAN I. KOERNER Treat me well and I will tell...
Treat me bad and I feel sad.
Treat me good, change my m...
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TIM NASH I always said he was off his rocker,’ said Ron, looking quite impressed at how mad his hero was.
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STEVE SCALISE I was always in CD?s office. CD?s like my mom away from home. No matter how much she makes you mad o...
BRITTANY HUNTER and then Zach said a really bad word, but I doubt DeeDee noticed because it was in Farsi
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ROBERT BROWNING All's over, then; does truth sound bitter / As one at first believes? / Hark, 'tis the sparrows' goo...
ROBERT BROWNING I had told the kids that I honestly didn't think we would be in the playoffs unless we won the tourn...
ROBERT BROWNING Lo, life again knocked laughing at the door! The world goes on, goes ever, in and through, And out a...
ROBERT BROWNING Progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beasts': God is, they are, Man partly...
ROBERT BROWNING All men on whom the Higher Nature has stamped the Love of Truth, should especially concern themselve...
ROBERT BROWNING One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools'
ROBERT BROWNING How very hard it is / To be a Christian!
ROBERT BROWNING I don't know; maybe the guys who got the chance to start were more focused and ready to play.
ROBERT BROWNING Ages past the soul existed, / Here an age 'tis resting merely.
ROBERT BROWNING Our guards really worked hard this summer on their shooting. You can't rely on your shooting all the...
ROBERT BROWNING And after April, when May follows, / And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows!
ROBERT BROWNING Round the cape of a sudden came the sea, And the sun looked over the mountain's rim: And straight wa...
ROBERT BROWNING Let me not know that all is lost, though lost it be - leave me not tied to this despair, this corpse...
ROBERT BROWNING Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed, As God be thanked! I...
ROBERT BROWNING The rest may reason and welcome; 'tis we musicians know.
ROBERT BROWNING Give both the infinitudes their due - / Infinite mercy, but, I wis, / As infinite a justice too.
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