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I was trying not to be happy, hopeful. I did not believe I deserved happiness or even hope, if you knew my soul.


Joyce Carol Oates

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EDDIE SLOVIK To be or not to be. That's not really a question.
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GOLDA MEIR I personally, as a teenager, didn't like books I felt were trying to preach to me... I did not b...
MALORIE BLACKMAN I'm not trying to put you down, but even if I did, you'd have nowhere to go.
ALEKSANDRA NINKOVIC Once for all; I knew to my sorrow, often and often, if not always, that I loved her against reason, ...
CHARLES DICKENS To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
VICTOR HUGO Do I have the courage of being a ruthless man to myself with the complete knowledge on my manner or ...
FEREIDOON YAZDI I did not know how to paint or even what to paint, but I knew I had to begin.
MARGARET ATWOOD Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I...
IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me
IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson...
IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ...
IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins
IF I WAKE I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to be ...
WARREN MITCHELL I was happy with what I did. I knew it was representative of my playing. That's all you can really a...
CAROL JANTSCH And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew she w...
SARAH DESSEN My career has been different from most people, but I knew what I was not going to do. I knew I was n...
BILL DIXON I knew that I did not have to buy into society's notion that I had to be handsome and healthy to...
WARREN MITCHELL I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
WALT WHITMAN I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends
WALT WHITMAN Even though nobody knew that you were in my life, you were the person who brought a raft at every ra...
KYUNG-SOOK SHIN To be mad is worse than not to be if this is what it is.
JOHNNY RICH Hamlet's Cat's Soliloquy

"To go outside, and there perchance to stay
Or to re...
HENRY N. BEARD To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
TOM ROBBINS I am not angry or sad or happy to see you. I could not give a shit. You don't even ripple.
GILLIAN FLYNN You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their ha...
JULIA ROBERTS I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying ha...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not ...
YEVGENY YEVTUSHENKO Because I did not understand the difference between meaning and happiness, I did not appreciate that...
JAMES CASTLETON, MD, MENDING OF A BROKEN HEART You never even worried with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were ha...
J.D. SALINGER I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
WALT WHITMAN No, if you believe it. I feel happy, not because of how I played but because of how my teammates pla...
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RANI MUKERJI And I communed with many different faiths and even when I wanted to be rebellious I never did not be...
ALFRE WOODARD Believe me, I did not want to be in jail. But I would have stayed even longer.
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MAGIC JOHNSON I always knew that, even if I was not the most beautiful girl, I'd be the most energetic and har...
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DANIEL HOROWITZ Today's my day. With them or not, if I run 9.99 I'm going to be happy.
AZIZ ZAKARI I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.
JIMMY PAGE Being happy is a great science. If you are not happy, do not be confused. Happiness is hard to achie...
PETAR DUNOV Eight full lives,” I whispered against his jaw, my voice breaking. “Eight full lives and I never...
STEPHENIE MEYER You do the right thing even if it makes you feel bad. The purpose of life is not to be happy but to ...
TRACY KIDDER I may not be a politician, but I will fight to the end of my life for what I believe in.
BIDZINA IVANISHVILI People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.
ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY People like to say love is unconditional, but it's not, and even if it was unconditional, it's still...
KATJA MILLAY I believe we deserved to advance as the 2-1 loss at Prague (in the first leg) did not reflect our me...
GIUSEPPE PAPADOPULO Deep in her heart, she wasn't sure she deserved to be happy, nor did she believe that she was worthy...
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JULIA ROBERTS Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i...
JOSEPH CONRAD But my gloom did not lessen. I knew that I'd had a bad dream, and I stood in the dark trying to reco...
ISAAC BASHEVIS SINGER I?m not happy about it. I hope they find whoever did it and get restitution, anyway.
DAN MARINO ...hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I h...
NATALIE BRENNER I was not trying to think about the wind. I was trying to concentrate on my game. I was happy that I...
IVO KARLOVIC I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.
TOBE HANSON I just knew how to do the one thing I did, and whether I did it well or not depended on who the dire...
JACKIE COOPER I have never seen two teams that played harder or played better. I did not find a team that deserved...
JACK NICKLAUS If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying...
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NICOLAS KIEFER I hope my competitors did not learn anything,
HELIO CASTRONEVES You have a choice whether you want to be happy or not. I choose to be happy.
VANESSA HUDGENS I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
NATALIA VODIANOVA You know, my love, you are not responsible for my happiness, or even my health. I've had a choice ev...
CHRISTINE FEEHAN I want happiness for my daughter - I want Carrie to be happy.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS I was not worried even if Michael passed me because I knew we would be strongest at the end of the r...
FERNANDO ALONSO ...

Not I...

...

Not I...

You lose.... not I!
DEYTH BANGER That's not an issue. If I pitch the way I did last night, boo me. If I pitch well, let me know that,...
ALAN EMBREE I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many pe...
LISA MARIE PRESLEY I do not remember very many things from the inside out. I do not remember what it felt like to touch...
MARYA HORNBACHER I just hope I remember to tell my kids that they are as happy as I look in my old photographs. And I...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY They believe anything that can be done should be done whether a patient wants it or not. That's what...
GEORGE HSU I was willing to accept a bad reputation if I deserved it, but it was going to be based on my action...
CASEY WASSERMAN I knew it was wrong. I did not have the intent to violate the law, but I knew it was wrong.
ELIE NAKOUZI I'm not missing any starts. No way. If I was going to miss a start, it would be (Sunday). Why am I s...
BARRY ZITO The child who refuses to travel in the father's harness, this is the symbol of man's most unique cap...
FRANK HERBERT It's really a great start to the year no matter whether it's an exhibition or not. I was trying to p...
ELENA DEMENTIEVA I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an exampl...
ROXANE GAY People are chasing cash, not happiness. When you chase money, you're going to lose. You're j...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I knew I was going to have to be a lot more aggressive. If not getting myself shots, but getting my ...
RASHARD LEWIS I did not believe and I do not believe that Planned Parenthood should be defunded.
LISA MURKOWSKI Worrying does not accomplish anything. Even if you worry twenty times more, it will not change the s...
THICH NHAT HANH I'm not a big fan of any video, especially my own. In a word, I hated the Hall & Oates video...
DARYL HALL I did so much research that I knew what I was getting into. I was trying to find specific musicians.
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BONNIE TYLER It was kind of a frustrating time, not knowing if [we] were going to be left out or not. I wanted t...
BRYAN RANDALL IF YOU CAN'T THANK GOD FOR WHAT YOU HAVE, THANK HIM FOR WHAT YOU HAVE ESCAPED!
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NOT REAL A conservative is a liberal who just got mugged and a liberal is a conservative who just got arreste...
NOT SURE If you are constantly looking in the rear view mirror, how will you ever see what is in front of you...
NOT SURE In spite of all the terrible things that happened to me, I did not allow Hitler to make me feel less...
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JOHN OATES My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.
JOHN OATES I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high...
JOHN OATES The key, I think, from a business point of view, is to learn how to be efficient in making a record ...
JOHN OATES I think people were just starving for good material because they just weren't getting it on the ...
JOHN OATES I think in music and a lot of creative fields, people's egos get in the way of their ability of ...
JOHN OATES Jam Cruise is actually a comfortable place for me. My jamming skills and my improvisational skills h...
JOHN OATES You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate ...
JOHN OATES I'm a bit more grounded than Daryl. I'm more practical, more pragmatic. Daryl looks more at the crea...
JOHN OATES Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.
JOHN OATES My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
JOHN OATES I don't care if it's a Cole Porter song, or George Gershwin, or Lennon/McCartney, or Elton J...
JOHN OATES Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.
JOHN OATES A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.
JOHN OATES There's always a personal satisfaction in writing a song by yourself. You get the inspiration, a...
JOHN OATES If anyone looks back to the '70s, '80s with nostalgic rosy colored glasses and goes, 'We...
JOHN OATES Dick Clark's 'American Bandstand' spread the gospel of American pop music and teenage st...
JOHN OATES I have such a wide variety of tastes in things that I like musically.
JOHN OATES The mustache represented the old John; I didn't want to be that guy anymore, so I shaved it off....
JOHN OATES I realized if I'm not really making an album, I don't have to be concerned about things like...
JOHN OATES He would be overjoyed. To see the outpouring of love from the fans, the former players and the Range...
GLORIA OATES This is just a very strong testimony to the life Johnny lead.
GLORIA OATES It's absolutely awesome the turnout that we've had here. Friends from as far back as high school and...
GLORIA OATES I am just going outside and may be some time.
CAPTAIN LAWRENCE OATES This was a one-on-one encounter between an officer and a violent felon. And there's no question that...
CHIEF DANIEL OATES It's so easy to settle for less than God's best for us because we don't always feel like...
JOYCE MEYER Yes, God does expect us to live holy, consecrated lives. But not even the best of our intentions can...
JOYCE MEYER As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if...
JOYCE BROTHERS There is such a thing as bad publicity.
JOYCE BROTHERS I don't give advice. I can't tell anybody what to do. Instead I say this is what we know abo...
JOYCE BROTHERS I have found in work that you only get back what you put into it, but it does come back gift-wrapped...
JOYCE BROTHERS The topic of trust is an important factor in all matters of the heart - and here's why. Men lie ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Never try to negotiate with anyone after he or she has eaten. People are best persuaded on an empty ...
JOYCE BROTHERS Credit buying is much like being drunk. The buzz happens immediately and gives you a lift... The han...
JOYCE BROTHERS