I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, make you safe.
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LIONEL SHRIVER I thought at the time that I couldn't be horrified anymore, or wounded. I suppose that's a common co...
LIONEL SHRIVER He wasn't mad, he was sad.
LIONEL SHRIVER They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are eas...
LIONEL SHRIVER You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same roo...
HANNAH KENT People who pretend to be your friend lead you up a garden path by saying everything that you want to...
GARY F EVANS... Never say i m bored because its not your life thats boring its all you that make it boring!
SUPERNA BATHEJA I believe in blues, and I believe that it's been misrepresented.
JOHN MAYER Stairs to climb are difficult it takes time and effort and going down is easies job... what do I mea...
DEYTH BANGER We all tend to make zealous judgments and thereby close ourselves off from revelation. If we feel th...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over...
LINCOLN STEFFENS When a guy can make fun of you, thats attractive. Who knew that teasing could have so much power ove...
RACHEL BILSON Every church must put its treasures into a safe-deposit box and issue common money, a common money o...
ATHENAGORAS I The bee is enclosed, and shines preserved, in a tear of the
sisters of Phaeton, so that it seems en...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL The idea that we can make all things safe for all behaviors is in itself a dangerous and slippery sl...
GEVER TULLEY Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER There wasn't any significant damage to the collections. Office records were damaged in the Mint, but...
CASEY HILL Let's first all people out there to see what's done and then they will see why I can do about that!?
DEYTH BANGER i forgot my past, thats not in my heart aswell, its only in ur mind that bothers both of us...
ADEET AHMED Some hotels had minimal damage, others were severely damaged.
DEKEN SPANNER will know how to navigate its way with as little damage as possible and bring Israel to a safe shore...
YITZHAK LEVY So you are a vampire."
"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS So that you will hear me
my words
sometimes grow thin
as the tracks of the gulls on t...
PABLO NERUDA It damaged the corners of the building and damaged the garage door. It didn't damage any other vehic...
BOB STOCKER I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We want to get the biggest names we can. We want to pack Shriver, We want our speakers to pack Shriv...
ARASH MASSOUDI It was damaged, no water but a little debris and damage to the roof. I was blessed.
ROBERT BROWN When something is important to you, you make sure its safe.
AMANDA HOCKING We are just in the process of assessing the damage. As the cameras are taken down and our engineers ...
JAMES REGO Aside from all that, she was carrying about a million tons of titanium ore to the heavy industries o...
CHRISTINA ENGELA Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in...
LIONEL RICHIE The worry now is that it is going to damage oil refineries in the western part of the Gulf after Kat...
JAMES HOLT Which would cause the fire to burn back on itself where there's no fuel since its already been burne...
JOHN WAYNE But feeling down can make you feel up if you’re the creative type. The emotional damage may have a...
JOHN WATERS [Motor racing has been] damaged, maybe irrevocably so in North America
FRANK WILLIAMS I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it lose...
NAT KING COLE Don't choose. Accept life as it is in its totality.
OSHO The option I feel more comfortable with is taking it out, ... It's my ankle. It's the way I make a l...
AHMED PLUMMER If you damage a forest a little bit, the forest can recover. Even damaged ecosystems can be restored...
CHRISTOPHER WILLS The totality of your commitment will make you more efficient
SUNDAY ADELAJA I think if you look back at the lead singers that left groups that didn't make it, you'll se...
JEFFREY OSBORNE There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's all thes...
JOHN GLOVER Now is the time when you see people which you know... but they start ignoring you... and how do you ...
DEYTH BANGER We don't know what the damage is, per se. We don't know if its salvageable or not. But while the bui...
DANNY WUERFFEL Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the p...
NIGEL LAWSON The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you're ...
JEREMY IRONS A composition is always more than the sum of its parts. In other words, a really good piece of music...
YO-YO MA Then away out in the woods I heard that kind of a sound that a ghost makes when it wants to tell abo...
MARK TWAIN I hope that my painting has the impact of giving someone, as it did me, the feeling of his own total...
BARNETT NEWMAN My love for you
a yearling became
many eons ago
Saiom Shriver.
SAIOM SHRIVER "Intellectualism" is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the dut...
WILLIAM JAMES We are so lucky that the damage was so confined. With the wood shop and its sawdust, which is so inc...
BILL HIRSH They're all damaged. Grand Isle by itself had at least a $10 million hit. That would be my estimate.
SHEA PENLAND It's a funny thing: my name in Arabic means hope, so I suppose I have to live by that principle....
AML AMEEN It appears ? appears , I want to emphasize ? that the cabinet was damaged last week. We don't know. ...
ISSA DADOUSH I finally found the product that helps mend my damaged hair and prevent breakage. Avon's Advance...
FERGIE We wouldn't want supplies to be left outside and get damaged or destroyed, ... We encourage people t...
BRENDA CLARK Poets often describe love as an emotion that we can't control, one that overwhelms logic and common ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS I've always been more interested in what happens after the bad thing has happened - the fallout ...
CHELSEA CAIN How do you get parents to pay for their child to come study in a city that was so badly damaged?
ELLEN FROHNMAYER The president has already made it clear that he believes it's very important that we make child care...
BARRY TOIV I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to le...
ANNE FRANK I admit I can still run a mile, [Lionel Logue replied,] though I'm not keen on doing it; and you kno...
MARK LOGUE A good newspaper, I suppose, is a nation talking to itself.
ARTHUR MILLER The body is wounded by the mind that inflicts damage unto itself.
LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS Unless the worm has already been removed from the computer, it could update itself and send out a hu...
ROBERT STEPHENS Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It...
AMIT RAY I believe that you can always learn from observation.
TAMARA TUNIE It's in bad shape. Whether it can be rehabilitated in nine or 12 months is not something I could tel...
DOUG THORNTON I became an actor by accident. I suppose I figured since I was in musical comedy from the time I was...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that in itself is a choice.
WILLIAM JAMES When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.
WILLIAM JAMES The best compliment that has ever been given to me was, I was at the airport one day and a guy came ...
LIONEL RICHIE If you are so afraid of losing something or being rejected, you already give up before trying,only t...
RENATE VULLINGS My mind's sunk so low, Claudia, because of you, wrecked itself on your account so bad already, that ...
CATULLUS You [Maria Shriver] are so wonderful. You are so beautiful. I have wanted to meet you for the longes...
BEN AFFLECK We know that Santa Monica had been in contact with Pasadena to see how the task force came back. And...
CARMEN BALBER The problem with a lot of Indian boys and girls is that they do not approach their partner, they are...
APURVA GAGLANI The road to salvation is filled with many false dark turn-offs, if you take those roads they will le...
GARY F EVANS... Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never rea...
JODI PICOULT A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
AMIT RAY There is more that unites us than divides us. So make it a point to talk with someone who is differe...
JOHNNY CORN ...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter...
HANYA YANAGIHARA What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL We have to make sure the building is safe before we can get anyone in there to access the damage. We...
GLENN MENARD I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
QUINCY JONES A lot of the things we've done have been common sense. You do what makes sense to you and make moves...
JEFFREY KALMIKOFF There's more depth to Lionel. What I am finding so interesting about playing him is there's ...
JOHN GLOVER When you believe without knowing you believe that you are damaged at your core, you also believe tha...
GENEEN ROTH In my conscience, I believe that my heart has been so oft on fire that it is absolutely vitrified.
ROBERT BURNS The heathen spirit is wingless. It cannot lift itself to heights from which the totality of being is...
SHOLEM ASCH I think any company that can make a case that it has been damaged by the exclusionary acts affirmed ...
DANA HAYTER Those that were damaged were already weakened by rotting components, had tilted or had concrete anne...
NATAALUI DUHA Love this life youve been given... ever-exciting, twists & turns, plot flips, unsuspecting surprises...
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III The Firestone name is horribly damaged and it's definitely not clear they can survive the damage.
ROD LACHE More experienced restoration people are comparing this to hurricane damage. It's much more serious d...
FRANK POIROT Lionel wanted to make sure he had the right to appeal.
ELLIS RUBIN The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult ...
ROBERT WISE The Sand Pebbles has always been one of my favorite films, I suppose because its the most difficult ...
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A clover veil..
violets the vale
neith skies cloudclad
or when ultraviolet
sun prevails.
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are set in rows.
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(to C and R Da...
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out of naught knits neat nuts.
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in many countries
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cups of crocuses
.. stand up in ca...
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nearly missed the ...
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become the tirades
of warmonger pastors?
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Though
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clothes
her petals unfolded
and those ...
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add another hue
unto the rainbow
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and...
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The lightning rod
Conductor's baton
Will's aligned spine
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invok...
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with his awesome light
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opinions
can block descent
of Spirit's pinions.
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the light ...
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LIONEL TRILLING A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather ...
LIONEL TRILLING Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader
LIONEL TRILLING We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Ut...
LIONEL TRILLING Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecuti...
LIONEL TRILLING In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetra...
LIONEL TRILLING It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.
LIONEL TRILLING In hindsight, Watergate was a curse as well as a blessing for American journalism. The courageous re...
LIONEL BARBER You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
LIONEL MESSI The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
LIONEL MESSI Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
LIONEL HAMPTON Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
LIONEL MESSI Whether it's a friendly match, or for points, or a final, or any game - I play the same. I'm...
LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n...
LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond...
LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ...
LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
LIONEL JOSPIN It's not so easy for us when we play teams who have a different mindset, like Chelsea or Inter M...
LIONEL MESSI You cannot beat the feeling of sitting on top of the charts. I had almost forgotten what it feels li...
LIONEL RICHIE I had the pleasure of seeing a real goddess today. She was her own definition of beauty. She was mag...
LIONEL SUGGS My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of t...
LIONEL BLUE A primary function of art and thought is to liberate the individual from the tyranny of his culture ...
LIONEL TRILLING There's nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child. I always help in any way ...
LIONEL MESSI I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble ...
LIONEL MESSI I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I'd have to ...
LIONEL MESSI My guess is the great majority of teachers would welcome a system where innovation is embraced, wher...
LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
LIONEL SOSA The poet may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
LIONEL TRILLING I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nic...
LIONEL MESSI The truth is my idea has been to always stay at Barcelona and see out the rest of my career here. Li...
LIONEL MESSI I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg...
LIONEL MESSI It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera...
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