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ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Get this (economic plan) passed. Later on, we can all debate it.
, TO NEW HAMPSHIRE LEGISLATORS Next generations will not know what is to have childhood.
DANIEL MELGAçO Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA If you're confused about what to do,
it's a sign that your enemy is winning.
TOBA BETA You don't tell an astronaut what to do.
ATMOSPHERE Human is what he decides to be.
ZAMAN ALI You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI You're supposed to be kind to everyone, because you never know when you're meeting an angel.
CAROL PLUM-UCCI I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes
LULLABY TO AN ANXIOUS CHILD My life is not mine - it is for my people – the humans – the humans of the thinking society.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD I have already joined myself in marriage to a husband, namely the kingdom of England.
ELIZABETH I (SPOKEN TO HER PARLAMENT) In six years, this was not the first time they had found themselves in
such a compromising posi...
JACQUELINE FRANCIS - WANTING TO REMEMBER, TRYING TO FORGET If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Don't do it, because you have to do it. Do it, because you love to do it.
PRITISH PATTANAIK To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool.
JEFFREY FRY The sad heart needs work to do.
JOAN BAUER Most powerful of all powers in its holy insinuation is _being_. _To be_ is more powerful than even _...
GEORGE MACDONALD Daisy stared worriedly into his shadowed face. “What if you change your mind about me? What if you...
LISA KLEYPAS We all must learn that in some cases there is something much worse than saying the wrong thing; that...
RICHARD BELLZON I dialed the number slowly, wanting to get it right. Two rings, and he picked up.
"Yes," I sai...
SARAH DESSEN God would not bring you through a Red Sea and turn around and allow you to perish in a fish pond.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. They taught me different was wrong.
ANI DIFRANCO I suppose I'm in that very small group of people who are not waiting for their own story to unfold. ...
CAROL RIFKA BRUNT Well, well, well I am trap in well, half way to hell.
DEYTH BANGER Romance is like having to go through security at airports in order to get on the plane.
BOBBY W. MILLER If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM What would I have wanted to say if I had had the opportunity to see him one more time? I would like ...
LISA J. SHULTZ Sheep don’t need the shepherd to be what they are. The shepherd needs sheep to be what he is.
LJUPKA CVETANOVA Opportunities pop up for everybody all of the time. It's the way that we progress. It's whether or n...
BEN BROWN Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,...
IMMANUEL KANT People want the here and now, rather than the there and after; as most are living in the where and w...
ANTHONY LICCIONE To be, or not to be, that is the question.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE A Ritual to Read to Each Other


If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD Remember that yours is not the only heart that may be wishing for love.
CAMERON DOKEY Your "Not To Do" list is also important.
MANI S. SIVASUBRAMANIAN I think that when the patient goes to the doctor, he or she will know what kinds of rights are there...
DAVID LAWRENCE Love is always patient and kind. It is never jealous. Love is never boastful or conceited. It is nev...
A WALK TO REMEMBER You're the best gay friend I've ever had!
AMERICA TALKING TO FRANCE Always remember, your focus determines your reality.
QUI-GON TO ANAKIN Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.
ATTRIBUTED TO MAYA AANGELOU You can call a jackass a thoroughbred but that doesn't make it so.
ATTRIBUTED TO ABRAHAM LINCOLN Between culinary school, a year and a half of apprentice stages all over the world in amazing restau...
STACEY BALLIS I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who ...
NEIL GAIMAN Life is never fast track.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA I am no God. I am no Messiah. I am no divine incarnation. I am but a human in the service of humans.
ABHIJIT NASKAR Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON I'm about to do something very clever and a tiny bit against the rules of the universe. It's importa...
TOMMY DONBAVAND Cam was sitting on the bed, still clothed. His head was lowered, hands braced on his knees in the po...
LISA KLEYPAS We neither of us perform to strangers.
JANE AUSTEN You know how to dance in sunlight when everything is going fine, but you have to learn to dance in d...
THERESE MAY Truth is irrelevant. What is relevant is whether or not they believe it."

The logic in th...
SARAH MACLEAN The past never quite disappeared, did it? Folks usually thought time moved forward, starting on the ...
BRANDY HEINEMAN Want LESS! Need LESS! Live MORE!
TANYA MASSE Don't try to focus in something within itself is a failURE.
DEYTH BANGER I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w...
C. JOYBELL C. I can not travel into my past, without consent of the future me.
TOBA BETA Faith is always coveted most and needed most urgently where will is lacking; for will, as the affect...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE O, the sheer magnificence of words that come together like waves upon a beach, each telling its own ...
JOHN M SHEEHAN I am not a typical human being. I am me and don't try to be anything but that because God didn't giv...
TAMMY WOOSTER Approach people with an open mind so you can learn from them
SOTONYE ANGA Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full consent.
Say...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Finding peace and contentment with Evernight—two emotions he was certain he’d never found in bed...
KRISTEN CALLIHAN To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
JEAN-LUC GODARD Dress to express not to impress.
DEBASISH MRIDHA I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE I want to do whatever I can to survive.
SAM SIMON Finance people should remember Albert Einstein’s wise words: “Not everything that counts can be ...
BJARTE BOGSNES Albert Einstein once said that ‘insanity’ was ‘Doing the same thing over and over again, expec...
JOSS SHELDON If I could remember the names of these particles, I would have been a botanist.
ENRICO FERMI Everything is energy and that's all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and ...
DARRYL ANKA The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
ALBERT EINSTEIN Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
ANONYMOUS Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not want to sign.
THéOPHILE GAUTIER The difference between genius and stupidity is: genius has its limits.
ALEXANDRE DUMAS FILS All right. Have it your own way. Road to hell paved with unbought stuffed dogs.Not my fault.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Wherever I am, you belong. You're mine. Say it.
J. KENNER To have time as an ally it must firstly be understood and respected,without time we have no way forw...
GARY F EVANS... Oh yes. Draw your hem back from my mud, little sister.
PHILIPPA GREGORY Life is given. Success is not. That's exactly why many people do not succeed, because the path isn't...
NICO DEAN FULGENZI When BEE in life not desirable , how can FREEBIES be.
ANUJ SOMANY Enthusiasm is more important than innate ability, it turns out, because the single more important el...
GRETCHEN RUBIN Dixon Steele: You know, when you first walked into the police station, I said to myself, “There sh...
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PATRICK DEWITT I don't consider Los Angeles home anymore; ultimately, it was pretty negative, but I did spend m...
PATRICK DEWITT A lot of authors, judging by their list, will put anything out that they finish... That's the wo...
PATRICK DEWITT When you meet someone you love, whether or not they love you back, something occurs in you that make...
PATRICK DEWITT I had no plan to write a western novel, and when I realized it was happening, I was pretty surprised...
PATRICK DEWITT The impetus for 'The Sisters Brothers' was it occurred to me that there was no neurosis in w...
PATRICK DEWITT I am increasingly unimpressed by works of art that require a college degree to understand. I think t...
PATRICK DEWITT If you're not riddled with doubt, you've probably done something wrong.
PATRICK DEWITT Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tr...
PATRICK DEWITT By the time I left the bar, I was 30. I was a dishwasher. They call it a bar-back, but essentially, ...
PATRICK DEWITT The question about my Canadianness comes up a lot, and I'm never quite sure what to say about it...
PATRICK DEWITT Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want t...
PATRICK DEWITT At the age of seventeen, I decided I would spend my life writing fiction. I didn't know what thi...
PATRICK DEWITT I carry a small spiral notebook with me at all times and have been doing this for many years. There&...
PATRICK DEWITT I felt like love has been underrepresented - unironic love, just actually really falling in love.
PATRICK DEWITT Whenever we changed schools, we had to make a new set of friends. At the time, of course, I hated it...
PATRICK DEWITT More and more, I find myself turning away from everything relating to contemporary society. I don...
PATRICK DEWITT All of my close friends are emotional train wrecks. This is what makes our lives interesting - const...
PATRICK DEWITT Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it ...
PATRICK DEWITT Lies can be wonderful things, and when a lie is told artfully, if it's done with a degree of cra...
PATRICK DEWITT I've stopped reading about the death of books because it's wasteful and morbid and insulting...
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