Patrick O'Brian
Related I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patri... BILLY CAMPBELL A young actor once asked me, What do you do between jobs? I said, Hobbies, hobbies, and more hobbies... ROBERT DUVALL O unbelievers, I serve not what you serve and you are not serving what I serve, nor am I serving wha... QUR'AN JOHNNY DEPP L.M. MONTGOMERY Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my... YODA AIMEE MULLINS DEYTH BANGER LISA KLEYPAS TIM THARP DEBASISH MRIDHA This little ship you sent is more wonderful than the big one that takes me away from you. CHARLES FROHMAN STEVEN PINKER CHARLAINE HARRIS RANDY PAUSCH J.K. ROWLING How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS JOSHUA SLOCUM We simply cannot allow the ship to get any closer to its destination. India has spoken, and they do ... JACOB HARTMANN For a while, there was nobody cutting ships. You couldn't do it because of all the environmental reg... BOB BERRY POPPY DELEVINGNE SARAH DESSEN SIMONE ELKELES ALEXANDRE DUMAS RICK RIORDAN AESOP I wanted to thank you," I said.RANSOM RIGGS GERMANY KENT One doctor said to me, 'The more people pray for you, the more energy is put out somewhere,' ... And... JASON ROBARDS THOMAS MERTON DAVID SEDARIS Let me explain what I do here. I don't want to confuse you any more than absolutely necessary. EUGENE ORMANDY When you look into the eyes of a dog, what do you see? For I do not see an empty soul puzzled at lif... JASON MCNEILL When, on a sea voyage, the ship is brought to anchor, you go out to fetch water and gather a few roo... IRVIN D. YALOM NAPOLEON BONAPARTE You don't tell an astronaut what to do. ATMOSPHERE MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON We love you, dude, but I swear to God, if you put me in a position where I have to pick between you ... JAY CROWNOVER ALAN GREENSPAN PATRICK ROTHFUSS A Ritual to Read to Each OtherWILLIAM STAFFORD PATCH ADAMS CHARLOTTE BRONTë SARA ZARR AARON SPELLING JOAN JETT People have said, 'Let's build bridges,' and frankly, I want to do more than that. I wou... AL-MAYASSA BINT HAMAD BIN KHALIFA AL-THANI NANCY PELOSI V.E. SCHWAB NICHOLAS SPARKS STEPHEN CHBOSKY NICHOLAS SPARKS NICHOLAS SPARKS HARPER LEE HARPER LEE When she would write a song, she would call me and say, 'Do you want to hear something? What do you ... CAROL ADAMS JOHN FOWLES BARBARA HAMBLY What concerns me," she said, "is that he's treading a fine line between fighting evil and becoming i... RONIE KENDIG SHANNON L. ALDER It didn't get any more glamorous than Havana, Cuba, in the 1950s. I used to go there when I was ... SIRIO MACCIONI Each day you tell me how much she means to you and how little you care for me. Not knowing that ever... GERMANGIRL24 I'm more important to me than any body you can mention. Do you know that? AL LEWIS CASSANDRA CLARE EPICTETUS EPICTETUS If you leave me waiting 'round for hours and then call on me to do something, I need to be able ... EDDIE MARSAN My mother kept calling me out of myself. She wanted to show me a picture, the first picture from the... TAMARA FAITH BERGER MONTY PYTHON I’d already said too much, giving my hand away. Yet I found myself lost on an island of need, peer... TERRI E. LAINE Your "Not To Do" list is also important. MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN RUMI ADRIANA LIMA LISA KLEYPAS SUSAN B. ANTHONY A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than y... STERLING HAYDEN CHRISTINA ENGELA O how we call each other namesSUNIL VIDYARTHI STEPHEN FRY What goes up must come down. But what is up? And what is down? Are you up there looking down on me? ... SEAN F. HOGAN JOHN FOWLES I was starting to get headaches, and my neighbor upstairs, she said she was starting to get headache... SHARON DIAS You should hear what my parents wanted to call me. It was between Brown Rice, Neon Hitch and Z. Zigg... NEON HITCH MARTIN FREEMAN I do not believe in widening the income gap between rich and poor, and my life's work in the inn... CLARK DURANT NEIL GAIMAN CARRIE FISHER SOREN KIERKEGAARD 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON I don't want fame as far as the tweeting or the image of it. But, the idea of being famous is ac... EMILY MEADE SHELBY FOOTE T. J. MILLER ANTHONY TROLLOPE Politics is when you say you are going to do one thing while intending to do another. Then you do ne... SADDAM HUSSEIN TAMORA PIERCE KHALIL GIBRAN KAHLIL GIBRAN KAHLIL GIBRAN JEREMY SISTO MEGHAN MARKLE
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You see," she concluded miserably, "when I can call like that to him across space--I belong to him. ... 
I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, ... 
We both know... that soon everything is going to end...
Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you... 
I like you so much," she says between kisses. And I can tell she wants to say love instead of like, ... 
I may not know you, but I don’t see any difference between you and me. I see myself in you; we are... 
People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference bet... 
If I have to choose between you and me - I like me better. 
Work hard. I got tenure a year early. Junior faculty members used to say to me: 'Wow, what's... 
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Why are you being so nice to me?' I asked her.
You once said you loved me. Do you still?"
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Annabeth looked at me. " We have to get out of here."
The Crab and Its Mother
A crab said to her son, Why do you walk so one-sided, my child? It is far mo... 
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I was not sure where I was going, and I could not see what I would do when I got [there]. But you sa... 
I hate you' she said to me one afternoon. 'I really, really hate you.' Call me sensitive, but I coul... 
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To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. 
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Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak! 
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you can tell a true war story if it embarrasses you. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care... 
I was a coward. I went to the war.