I am very fortunate. I am a glass-half-full eternal optimist type to the point of being a moron. But I would never presume to know how hard it goes for others. How, for some people, just getting though the day is an incredible effort that can hardly be borne.


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I wonder why it is, that young men are always cautioned against bad girls. Anyone can handle a bad g...
DAVID NIVEN
I have this feeling, like I'm waiting for something. But I have no idea what.
JENNIFER NIVEN
You make me love you,
And that could be the greatest thing my heart was ever fit to do...
JENNIFER NIVEN
The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places. —Ernest Hemingway
JENNIFER NIVEN
Disguise the pain. Don’t call attention. Don’t be noticed.
JENNIFER NIVEN
I am in pieces.
JENNIFER NIVEN
You saved my life. why couldn't I save yours
JENNIFER NIVEN
I turn to Libby. "You're kind. Probably the kindest person I know. You're also forgiving, at least a...
JENNIFER NIVEN
I make two movies a year to take care of the butcher and the baker and the school fees. Then I try t...
DAVID NIVEN
You can count on Errol Flynn, he'll always let you down.
DAVID NIVEN
I see my purpose in life as making the world a happier place to be in .
DAVID NIVEN
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
LARRY NIVEN
On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist....
LARRY NIVEN
The value of a thing is what that thing will bring. -Legal Maxim
LARRY NIVEN
We don't ever leave that old world behind. We just create a new one.
JENNIFER NIVEN
For a minute, I can feel it: the sense of peace as my mind goes quiet, like I'm already dead. I am w...
JENNIFER NIVEN
In my dreams, I see 10 to 20 years from now, people who are 50 to 55 years old will get a cognitive ...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN
To our surprise, three of the people that were PIB-positive and had low A-beta 42 levels were clinic...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN
Our goal is to identify biomarkers, to be able to diagnose people early in the disease stage, hopefu...
ANNE FAGAN NIVEN
Behold this ruin! 'Twas a skull Once of ethereal spirit full! This narrow cell was Life's ret...
ANNA JANE VARDILL (MRS. JAMES NIVEN)
The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visib...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
I don’t need to worry that Finch and I never filmed our wanderings. It’s okay that we didn’t c...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
The Nest Houses aren’t there. It’s dark by the time I stop in downtown New Harmony, with its bri...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
Right now, he crosses his arms and frowns at me.

“Is it true you almost drowned Roamer...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
It’s okay to laugh, you know. The earth’s not going to split open. You’re not going to hell. B...
JENNIFER NIVEN, ALL THE BRIGHT PLACES
My family is from Liverpool, so I have some of those vowel sounds, I've got the slack tone of so...
JOHN OLIVER
Protest and anger practically always derives from hope, and the shouting out against injustice is al...
JOHN BERGER
No man is to be credited for his mere authority's sake, unless he can show Scripture for the mai...
JOHN WYCLIFFE
By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Am...
JOHN ROBERTS
Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, yo...
JOHN NOBLE
Learn as many mistakes and what not to do while your business or product is small. Don't be in s...
DAYMOND JOHN
Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Th...
JOHN ELWAY
This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be war...
JOHN TYLER
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.
JOHN LENNON
Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute.
JOHN MORTIMER
No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
JOHN JAY
Every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has a right to, but himself.
JOHN LOCKE
High School is like a spork: it's a crappy spoon and a crappy fork, so in the end it's just ...
JOHN MAYER
When I was growing up in rural Alabama, it was impossible for me to register to vote. I didn't b...
JOHN LEWIS
The documented incidences of voter fraud are very rare, yet throughout the country, forces have mobi...
JOHN LEWIS
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the ...
JOHN CALVIN
I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourm...
JOHN MADDEN
Christians were instructed to serve others, and the thanksgiving was for the grace of God and the fa...
JOHN CLAYTON
Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete...
JOHN CLAYTON
Was the real Jesus of history one and the same as the Christ of faith whom we read about in the New ...
JOHN CLAYTON
I believe any question that man can ask has a reasonable answer-at least an answer that is as consis...
JOHN CLAYTON
Almost every time I am in a lectureship on a college campus, young people will say, If there is a Go...
JOHN CLAYTON
I guess none of us like to look back in our lives to a time when we made poor judgments and foolish ...
JOHN CLAYTON