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I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it.


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The Cheshire Cat: That dep...
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BETTY GARDNER I caught the ball. When you catch the ball, you just walk off the field.
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ALICE WALKER It is a lie.
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'That depends a good deal on whe...
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DONALD MILLER If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
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CHRIS WELLS If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
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STEVEN WRIGHT I see time away hasn’t made you any more charming. (Fang)
Oh, I can be charming. I just choos...
SHERRILYN KENYON Bound by custom or unique by choice.
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In the west, deeds are done.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON The consolation of an imaginary thing is still a real consolation.
ROGER SCRUTON I want to tell few things, I like the truth in all faces. why??
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DEYTH BANGER When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can&#...
HELEN FISHER Hannibal at eighteen was rooting for Mephistopheles and contemptuous of Faust, but he only half-list...
THOMAS HARRIS If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
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JOE MUCCI If you have knowledge, then use it for educating not for degrading.
FAISAL NAWAZ MAITLO See, that's the thing that pisses me off.
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MEG NEZAJ To stand on the
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ALICE WALKER A grown child is a dangerous thing.
ALICE WALKER People think pleasing God is all God care about. But any fool living in the world can see it always ...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight. I had to fight my daddy. I had to fight my brothers. I had to fight my c...
ALICE WALKER Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved.
ALICE WALKER And I thank God let me gain understanding enough to know love can't be halted just cause some people...
ALICE WALKER A writer's heart, a poet's heart, an artist's heart, a musician's heart is always breaking. It is th...
ALICE WALKER Well how you spect to make her mind? Wives is like children. You have to let 'em know who got the up...
ALICE WALKER All my life I had to fight... But I never thought I'd have to fight in my own house... I loves Harpo...
ALICE WALKER I had assumed that the Earth, the spirit of the Earth, noticed exceptions -- those who wantonly dama...
ALICE WALKER The longer I am a writer--so long now that my writing finger is periodically numb--the better I unde...
ALICE WALKER Mr. President how long must women wait to get their liberty? Let us have the rights we deserve.
ALICE PAUL I think fashion can always date, but I think if a woman has elegance, she doesn't date.
ALICE TEMPERLEY The decisions you make are a choice of values that reflect your life in every way.
ALICE WATERS When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jit...
ALICE OSWALD After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER After I dropped out of college at the age of 19, I became a mortgage broker, and when I went back to...
ALICE DREGER