I borrowed my friend's car the other day in an attempt to persuade my husband that we needed a car and literally this is true, in the first day of borrowing the car, I got three tickets and I rear-ended it.


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MORTIMER J. ADLER
... always keep in mind that an article of faith is not something that the faithful assume. Faith, f...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' te...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read be...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
There are genuine mysteries in the world that mark the limits of human knowing and thinking. Wisdom ...
MORTIMER J. ADLER
Honest people don't hide their deeds.
EMILY BRONTE
I had no portrait, now, but am small, like the wren; and my hair is bold, like the chestnut bur; and...
EMILY DICKINSON
Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.
EMILY DICKINSON
Truth is so rare that it is delightful to tell it.
EMILY DICKINSON
Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
My friends are my estate.
EMILY DICKINSON
Often I feel that projects overwhelm us when we look at how many hours are involved until completion...
EMILY GIFFIN
I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!
EMILY OSMENT
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-br...
EMILY BRONTE
It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw.
EMILY CARR
A lot of period dramas can appear quite arch to most people, stuffy.
EMILY BLUNT
They might not need me; but they might. I'll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as m...
EMILY DICKINSON
Oh, Spring! I want to go out and feel you and get inspiration. My old things seem dead. I want fresh...
EMILY CARR
Little girls as children, I think, are expected to behave better. If a boy's naughty at school, ...
EMILY BERRINGTON
I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his brie...
EMILY DICKINSON
Nature is our eldest mother; she will do no harm.
EMILY DICKINSON
Because I could not stop for death, He kindly stopped for me; The carriage held but just ourselves a...
EMILY DICKINSON
I'm nobody, who are you?
EMILY DICKINSON
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
EMILY DICKINSON
Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.
EMILY DICKINSON
I dwell in possibility.
EMILY DICKINSON
A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend...
EMILY DICKINSON
I'm a big zombie buff.
EMILY VANCAMP
How much is an hour of your time worth? It's worth whatever wage you would get if you spent that...
EMILY OSTER
I have to be a lot more calculating because I'm a very private person. I actually really struggl...
EMILY WATSON
Sisters are brittle things. God was penurious with me, which makes me shrewd with Him. One is a dain...
EMILY DICKINSON
May she wake in torment!’ [...] ‘Why, she’s a liar to
the end! Where is she? Not there - ...
EMILY BRONTë
Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.
EMILY BRONTë
Oh, I'm burning! I wish I were out of doors! I wish I were a girl again, half savage and hardy, and ...
EMILY BRONTë
Oh, Cathy! Oh, my life! how can I bear it?" was the first sentence he uttered, in a tone that did no...
EMILY BRONTë
Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same; and Linton's is as different as a moonbea...
EMILY BRONTë
You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!
EMILY BRONTë
It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss m...
EMILY BRONTë
It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.
EMILY BRONTë
She burned too bright for this world.
EMILY BRONTë
Terror made me cruel . . .
EMILY BRONTë
It's a weird thing. Rick Springfield wrote 'Jessie's Girl,' and he probably gets sic...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
Oh, but you must travel through those woods again and again... said a shadow at the window... and yo...
EMILY CARROLL
How strange that nature does not knock, and yet does not intrude!
EMILY DICKINSON
My first lip balms were Bonne Bell Lip Smackers, which, correct me if I'm wrong, sometimes had l...
EMILY WEISS
The United Nations did a study just over two years ago, and that blew my mind. I started thinking th...
EMILY DESCHANEL
Your bikini should compliment your dress, and they should work together to frame your body. It's...
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
Hope" is the thing with feathers- that perches in the soul... -Emily Dickenson.
EMILY DICKENSON
Hope is a strange invention-- A Patent of the Heart-- In unremitting action Yet never wearing out.
EMILY DICKINSON
Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call...
EMILY DICKINSON
Faith is a fine invention For gentlemen who see; But Microscopes are prudent In an emerg...
EMILY DICKINSON
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand.
EMILY KIMBROUGH
Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the ...
EMILY BRONTë