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A friend is a present you give yourself. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
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JAMES BLAYLOCK From bar mitzvah on, [S J Perelman] had dreamed of being a Jewish Robert Louis Stevenson.
ISRAEL SHENKER I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' b...
FRANCINE PASCAL Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. -Robert Louis Stevenson.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON My breakthrough as a reader was when I discovered the European adventure story writers - Alexander D...
TERRY BROOKS Mealtime

"A mousie squealing in a trap
Woke me from my morning nap.
Wasn...
HENRY N. BEARD Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I alway...
JANE BIRKIN People see what they want to see
SUSAN BETH PFEFFER In Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Jekyll & Hyde,' the hero decides on the terms of his tr...
JOSHUA COHEN The most racking pangs succeeded: a grinding in the bones, deadly nausea, and a horror of the spirit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M The distinction between literary and genre fiction is stupid and pernicious. It dates back to a feud...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN TO TRAVEL HOPEFULLY IS A BETTER THING THAN TO ARRIVE

(RLS, “El Dorado” (1878), in Vir...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON We should not blame people by the mistakes of others.
DANIEL MELGAçO If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
CRAIG GROESCHEL If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Something did happen, and I really don't feel proud of it.
DEYTH BANGER I don't think I have one particular favourite writer. I have many whose works I will always buy ...
IAN RANKIN We have been assured by (referee's boss) Robert Finch there is no ill feeling between the referee an...
ROBERT FINCH Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We want to invite the public to the ceremony at the police station, so hopefully family and friends ...
LARRY LEONARDO The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We will not regard the withdrawal as complete if one single soldier will remains at the crossing.
NAFEZ AZZAM She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART We're actually more in a deficit than we were at the height of the drought when the lake was at its ...
DALE CRISP We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surfac...
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN What upsets me most is that our children are not protected. Robert Louis Stevenson Middle School is ...
DENISE SMITH One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.
ARTHUR KOESTLER If we get all the applications in by March 3, we can take a week to sort out the applicants and two ...
BRUCE ECKARD Isn't friendship amazing? At one time, our friends were just strangers to us. However, there was som...
JAMES A. MURPHY This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma...
MATTHEW DESMOND The best argument for teaching poetry is to put a three-year-old or a four-year-old and read Dr. Seu...
ROBERT PINSKY The organized domestic terrorism of the general public is why many people regard the police as corru...
STEVEN MAGEE Just think how much poorer we would be today if the world would have had half as many people in the ...
ROBERT ZUBRIN Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consi...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar ...
LALU PRASAD YADAV People [in Australia] don't see it as a business. We regard ourselves as a profession run by doctors...
MICHAEL CHAPMAN Sort of like a scalp. We don't take it that seriously.
JIM WALKER In general, we as police officers - at least the good police officers - like to look at each situati...
STEVEN SEAGAL Would you want you as a friend?
PETER STROPLE Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ...
BECKY ALBERTALLI I regard it in fact as the great advantage of the mathematical technique that it allows us to descri...
FRIEDRICH AUGUST VON HAYEK We had a great first quarter against a quality team. We need to do our job and beat La Center and St...
CURTIS ECCLES We became friends as we became a band. Our friendship evolved as the band evolved. It had its ups an...
DAVE BLOOD We all want to be normal. Life, even normal life, is arduous, demanding, and ultimately threatening....
MARK EPSTEIN We don't really regard it as stuck (in fifth place) in the sense that pursuit of market share for it...
MILES FLINT The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN As long as our culture continues to fawn over its downward-aspiring lowest common denominators, the ...
ANTHONY BEAL Certain incidents, like the Taylor Coles murder, that was outrageous even to the lowest form of life...
WILLIAM JOYCE See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART then as far as I am concerned, he is the lowest sort of scum and the sooner he dies, the better.
TED KACZYNSKI The international community should be very alarmed by these events because the situation is getting ...
BABA GANA KINGIBE This reminds me of our building projects. We always take the lowest bidder, and it never works out i...
JACK KAUFFMAN Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith. I don't agree at...
C.S. LEWIS A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
NELSON MANDELA We didn’t think anything of it at the time, but we saw several of the bodies of the crew, space pi...
CHRISTINA ENGELA We never asked the Italian police to take action. We informed them that we would conduct testing on ...
ARNE LJUNGQVIST Females and boys are the only creatures that propose others for friendship. As for the rest of us, f...
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would reg...
CLARA ZETKIN If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ...
CRAIG GROESCHEL We are obliged to regard many of our original minds as crazy at least until we have become as clever...
G. C. (GEORG CHRISTOPH) LICHTENBERG Because animals are property, we consider as 'humane treatment' that we would regard as tort...
GARY L. FRANCIONE If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it...
RICHARD BACH We emphasize handling problems at the lowest level first.
LARRY DOZIER For us to regard others as worthy, we have to begin by regarding ourselves as worthy.
STEPHEN RICHARDS I regard consciousness as fundamental. I regard matter as derivative from consciousness. We cannot g...
MAX PLANCK If we take it according to the way the evidence was presented, that was about the twelfth of 78 witn...
JEFF JUSTICE If our children were to grow up truthful they much be taught by those who had a regard for truth; an...
AMY CARMICHAEL I and my sister thought otherwise and we went to police as we expected justice. But after a few hour...
ISMA MAHMOOD [Don't take critics seriously. As Robert Morley puts it:] If the critics were always right, we shoul...
JEAN SIBELIUS Just as the room of the Inquisitor in Dr. Talos's play, with its high judicial bench, lurked somewhe...
GENE WOLFE At this point we are done. We're looking at today as a day when all the news is out on the table. We...
BRAD MCGEE From the standpoint of observation, then, we must regard it as a highly probable hypothesis that the...
WILHELM WUNDT Epileptics know by signs when attacks are imminent and take precautions accordingly; we must do the ...
SENECA As far back as we go ... it's the lowest for any kind of election, and I think it's the lowest since...
TOM LEACH "We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want...
AXL ROSE We take it for granted we know the whole story - We judge a book by its cover and read what we want ...
AXL ROSE Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't ...
JEAN BAUDRILLARD It's a little premature because [the decision] hasn't even been signed yet by all the judges. We wil...
JACK MAGEE At this point, it sort of has a life of its own.
AMBER SHELDON We know that St. Louis is a baseball town and the city loves its Cardinals. It wouldn't be right if ...
MARK LAMPING We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON We sort of got off to a rocky start, but we're playing a lot better now. We take things one day at a...
JENNIFER CALDWELL But we must not, if we are loyal, disperse our energies in a partisan warfare that is waged without ...
BAINBRIDGE COLBY Expect nothing at all and accept as a joyful surprise whatever good you find in matrimony.
FRANK LESLIE In the second quarter of the year, demand is at its lowest. If they continued pumping when demand ea...
MARK ROUTT Our ability to further our inquiry with regard to Michael Edwards and with regard to Mr. Decker is b...
LARRY LEAKE We look at it on a cash-flow basis. We regard it as pretty fairly valued. But even with this new con...
ALEX BROWN The Central African Republic is free to close its border, but we regard the decision only as a gestu...
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and silence;
and a lo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The best things are nearest: breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duti...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and bo...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Teacher, tender comrade, wife, A fellow-farer true through life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is the mark of a modest man to accept his friendly circle ready-made from the hands of opportunit...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Even if the doctor does not give you a year, even if he hesitates about a month, make one brave push...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You must suffer me to go my own dark way.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No baggage - there was the secret of existence.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If he be Mr. Hyde" he had thought, "I shall be Mr. Seek.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Before us, over the tree tops, we beheld a great field of open sea to the East. Sheer above us rose ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To hold the same views at forty as we held at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Commemoration of William Morris, Artist, Writer, 1896 Commemoration of George Kennedy Bell, Bishop ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Lord, behold our family here assembled. We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell; for the love...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere an...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Vanity dies hard; in some obstinate cases it outlives the man.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it, they are wrong
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON It is perhaps a more fortunate destiny to have a taste for collecting shells than to be born a milli...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to pr...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON By the time a man gets into the seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The correction of silence is what kills; when you know you have transgressed, and your friend says n...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I hate cynicism a great deal worse than I do the devil; unless perhaps the two were the same thing
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of ...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I'm cap'n here by 'lection. I'm cap'n here because I'm the best man by a long sea-mile. You won't fi...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To the Hesitating Purchaser:

"If sailor tales to sailor tunes,
Storm and adventure,...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON I incline to Cain's heresy," he used to say quaintly: "I let my brother go to the devil in his own w...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Noh, tead, abielu on nagu surm, see jõuab kord kõigile kätte," ütles Dick alistuvalt.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Captain," said the squire, "the house is quite invisible from the ship. It must be the flag they are...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end in life.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Man is a creature who lives not upon bread alone, but primarily by catchwords.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we...
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it
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