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If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome."

[Meditations Divine and Moral]


Anne Bradstreet

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SAINT AUGUSTINE people are not good to each other.
perhaps if they were
our deaths would not be so sad.
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ST. AUGUSTINE These... things, householder, are welcome, agreeable, pleasant, & hard to obtain in the world: GAUTAMA BUDDHA What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your p...
JANE AUSTEN What would you do if I died?
If you died I would want to die too.
So you could be with me?...
CORMAC MCCARTHY Without sound,
There would be no music.
And without music,
There would be no life. SUZY KASSEM Hmmm,' the King said, making a face. 'I'm not sure this is what we bargained for, boy. We expected t...
DANIELLE L. JENSEN MUSIC OF THE UNIVERSE

Without the orchestra of the universe,
There would be no ether...
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RUTH ASAWA I would still be with you. But I could sleep outside, so it would not be so obvious. I do not need t...
MADELINE MILLER I was so happy to be out of there. “Barabas, if you weren’t batting
for the other team, I�...
ILONA ANDREWS Because the birdsong might be pretty,
But it's not for you they sing,
And if you think my ...
ERIN HANSON Are you, are you
Coming to the tree
They strung up a man
They say who murdered thr...
SUZANNE COLLINS So the dickhead had a name. Daemon—seemed fitting. And of course his sister would be as attractive...
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PABLO PICASSO If love did not exist I would be so goddamn sane my poems would be billboards. Suburbia would be eno...
ANDREA GIBSON MORPHEUS: I did not intend to hurt you,

THESSALY: And what if you did not? Intent and out...
NEIL GAIMAN We never know how high we are
Till we are called to rise;
And then, if we are true to plan...
EMILY DICKINSON I want to tell you what's really happened."

"Not now. Please not now. Whatever's happened...
JOHN FOWLES 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 I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in noticing those of others.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD Autumn to winter, winter into spring, Spring into summer, summer into fall,-- So rolls the cha...
DINAH MARIA MULOCK (USED PSEUDONYM MRS. CRAIK) If only we were not that seedling of Creation,
Of Earth and its generations,
If only we ha...
ADONIS If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
SAINT AUGUSTINE To be unbroken, what would that be?
If words that were spoken, had not shattered me
ZOEGIRL If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.
VICTOR HUGO He blesses us so we can be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL It's not so bad."
Melancholia looked at her. "You're lying."
"I'll get used to it. So will...
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ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO If we could change just one thing in time, what would we change?

WARS, so that we could l...
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Mal: Awake
Anne: Morning
Mal: Going ...
KYLIE SCOTT He sighed, then said, "So basically, you're stalking her."
"I am NOT stalking her." I insisted....
JENNIFER ECHOLS Well, there would be no sound
if we shout on the background.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the de...
BRANDON SANDERSON So, Beav, tell me about yourself."
"I'm Blue."
"Sweetheart, if I had your dubious taste in...
SUSAN ELIZABETH PHILLIPS If God did not exist it would be necessary to invent Him. But all nature cries aloud that He does ex...
ELIZABETH KALES And then I knew that despite all the pain and hard work all of us had gone through, despite the sadn...
ERICA SEHYUN SONG But what manner of use would it be ploughing through that darkness?' asked Drinian.

Use?'...
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VICTOR KOO You are thirty minutes late."
"Yes."
"Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a f...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI And since today’s all there is for now, that’s everything.
Who knows if I’ll be dead the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'
hierarchies? and even if one of them
...
RAINER MARIA RILKE The Tea Party did not run me out. If you know me and my personality, I would welcome the challenge.
BART STUPAK If we shadows have offended,
Think but this, and all is mended,
That you have but slumber...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Are the gods not just?"

"Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?
C.S. LEWIS If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet,' said Priscilla.
Anne glowed.
L.M. MONTGOMERY Are you really a doctor?” I asked.
“Some people say that.”
“Why?”
“Becaus...
MICHAEL BRENT JONES If I lost, so what. If I won, so what. My heart's not in it, but what else would I be doing?
RONNIE O'SULLIVAN None of the billion lowReds beneath Mars would be happy if they knew what the highReds knew - that t...
PIERCE BROWN Welcome, Prince,' said Aslan. 'Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?' C.S. LEWIS If I felt that one of my operas did not come off I would certainly say so.
CARLISLE FLOYD She remembered how her heart, so tight, like a scroll, had opened when Arin kissed her.
It had...
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L.M. MONTGOMERY I would not believe in the Gospel if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so
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RAY BRADBURY If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know...
KURT VONNEGUT I want everyone to see what's going on so if we don't come back they'll know why, and if we do, they...
LORI BENNETT Why did god create a dual universe?
So he might say
‘Be not like me. I am alone.'
A...
MARK Z. DANIELEWSKI I do not know what to say, how to tempt you. If you had a price, I would pay it. If you desired part...
CHARLOTTE FEATHERSTONE Love
isn't always magic.
But if I offered my body to the magician,
if I told him to c...
ANDREA GIBSON If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if not ...
RABBI HILLEL If I am not for myself, who will be for me?
If I am not for others, what am I?
And if no...
RABBI HILLEL Is pain a state of mind or can there be more to it than what there seems to be? i would say yes if w...
GARY F EVANS... If we did not know then we would not die.
SORIN CERIN Not so, not so, no load of woe
Need bring despairing frown;
For while we bear it, we can bea...
SARAH WILLIAMS We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.
NEIL GAIMAN Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE God, if he wasn’t so handsome, strong,
sometimes sweet, didn’t have a Harley, that beard, a...
KRISTEN ASHLEY If I were to command a general to turn into a seagull, and if the general did not obey, that would n...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY You guys are so... dark. Even if I used flash, I'm not sure it would come out."

"Y-yeah,"...
RICK RIORDAN When he called she tried not to break down, but voice so often betrays emotion and her's wept, "He l...
DONNA LYNN HOPE It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.
JOHN STEINBECK I said to my soul
Be still
And wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing...
TS (THOMAS STEARNS) ELIOT Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises,
Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt n...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I always loved you, Will, whatever you did. And now I need you to do for me what I cannot do for mys...
CASSANDRA CLARE I know in my mind
I would leave you now
If I had the strength to
I would leave you up...
DAVE MATTHEWS BAND I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passi...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE there is [...]
a last even of last times of saying
if you do not love me I shall not be lo...
SAMUEL BECKETT Cathy, don't look so defeated. She was only trying to put us down
again.
Maybe nothing did...
V.C. ANDREWS If we are not empty, we become a block of matter.
We cannot breathe, we cannot think.
To be ...
THICH NHAT HANH And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love s...
C.S. LEWIS If this was not so, then we would not have been ready.
HORACE ENGDAHL We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone wo...
E. M. CIORAN If we never did a critical habitat designation, the frogs would still would be protected and so woul...
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Should never crave the rose.
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ANNE BAXTER And I knew my vision of the garden of savage beauty had been a true vision. There was meaning in the...
ANNE RICE Confusion is an often too subtle sign of paranoia.
ANNE AUSTIN Make no judgements where you have no compassion.
ANNE MCCAFFREY Gardens, scholars say, are the first sign of commitment to a community. When people plant corn they ...
ANNE RAVER Is discord going to show itself while we are still fighting, is the Jew once again worth less than a...
ANNE FRANK Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent t...
ANNE TUCKER Vibrators. I think they are great. They keep you out of stupid sex. I'd pitch them to anybody.
ANNE HECHE Sex is a short cut to everything.
ANNE CUMMING Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
ANNE FRANK When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and o...
ANNE LAMOTT A hundred years from now? All new people.
ANNE LAMOTT Seeing yourself in print is such an amazing concept: you can get so much attention without having to...
ANNE LAMOTT Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, t...
ANNE LAMOTT I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.
ANNE LAMOTT You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all...
ANNE LAMOTT [Lamott is an unstoppable storyteller, whether writing about church-going with a sullen adolescent o...
ANNE LAMOTT We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on ...
ANNE LAMOTT ... she knew in her heart that to be without optimism, that core of reasonless hope in the spirit r...
ANNE PERRY The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridicu...
ANNE SULLIVAN As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.
ANNE SEXTON I wish to go on living even after my death.
ANNE FRANK You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and ...
ANNE FRANK I think a lot, but I don't say much.
ANNE FRANK Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
ANNE FRANK Whoever is happy will make others happy.
ANNE FRANK People can tell you to keep your mouth shut, but that doesn't stop you from having your own opinion.
ANNE FRANK Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no ...
ANNE HERBERT Madness takes its toll. Please have exact change.
ANNE RICE I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.
ANNE FRANK All art requires courage.
ANNE TUCKER And then, the unspeakable purity and freshness of the air! There was just enough heat to enhance the...
ANNE BRONTE People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.
ANNE TYLER Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!
ANNE FRANK Sometimes I believe that God wants to try me, both now and later on; I must become good through my o...
ANNE FRANK I've reached the point where I hardly care whether I live or die. The world will keep on turning wit...
ANNE FRANK I love you, with a love so great that it simply couldn't keep growing inside my heart, but had to le...
ANNE FRANK Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.
ANNE FRANK The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!
ANNE FRANK