If you're silent for a long time, people just arrive in your mind.


Alice Walker

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Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong.
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The major complaint from last year is that people bought something online, and it didn't arrive on t...
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We've been too silent for too long. This should have been taken care of a long time ago.
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AMANDA CRAIG
You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excess...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
If youre in an awkward position, feel comfortable enough to walk away.
BEAU MIRCHOFF
These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON
You know you're old if your walker has an airbag
PHYLLIS DILLER
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
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But over time, it has proven to be a prudent investment for just about everyone. If you view it as a...
BARBARA MORRISON
If I were to ingest large volumes of mind altering substances for a long enough period of time would...
THOMAS WALLACE SCHERZER
I have had my results for a long time: but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.
CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS
As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something abo...
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Television used to be made much more in a vacuum; the only feedback the audience had for a long time...
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If I had been a dog walker, I would have been the most successful dog walker in Paris.
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It's a great pity that things weren't so arranged that an empty head, like an empty stomach, wouldn'...
UNKNOWN
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Time is the pivot of life activities. When you miss a second, you miss a time in your lifetime! Time...
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If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, ...
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Sometimes getting to the other side seems impossible. You know there’s a way. You can actually see...
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You know you're old if your walker has an airbag.
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Child of the pure, unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet and I and thou A...
LEWIS CARROLL
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border...
SCOTT THOMPSON
If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.
IAN FLEMING
When you lost sight of your path, listen for the destination in your heart (Allen Walker, D-gray Man...
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Curiouser and curiouser!
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Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.
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She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a pl...
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Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?"
Alyss shook her head. How could she ...
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I'm afraid so.Your totally bonkers.But I tellyou a secret.All the best people are.
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Considering the strong demand among people in the market, 10-year yield won't stay above 1.6 percent...
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Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’

‘I’m seven and a half...
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If your mind is not in the present time, your body will look like a dead body, cold and insensible!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Does giving your piece of mind, bring a peace of mind? Or is it better to be silent and let the war ...
ANTHONY LICCIONE
You're not here for a long time, your here for a good time.
DON CARPENTER
It's not just be on the Walker Cup team and have that star after your name. A lot of these guys want...
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Stop letting unnecessary thoughts feed your mind. It's nugatory. Focus on your long-time goals and m...
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Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
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Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
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To give a character life in a short space of time, it helps if you arrive on screen with a past.
JEANNE MOREAU
and I am waiting/ for Alice in Wonderland/ to retransmit to me/ her total dream of innocence"
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Dont try to go too fast. Learn your job. Dont ever talk until you know what youre talking about. If ...
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We have said for a long time that if the premier made this announcement we would stop. We are not st...
CHAMLONG SRIMUANG
if youre never scared, or embarased, or hurt, it means you never take any chances.
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Don't you ever think that your mind can never harm you just because it is your mind! Your mind can r...
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People who have done you wrong, or right, stick in your mind for a lifetime. Whose mind are you in, ...
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If you're around long enough and working hard, ... people will be exposed to your work. It's an inte...
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Mind your mind, mind your time and mind your life! Life is just once and the real certainty or uncer...
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If it takes in 30,000 people, the queues will be very long and buying lunch would take a very long t...
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The best thing people can always do is come early. If you normally arrive at the airport 30 to 45 mi...
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It is a terrible blow to me to fall ill at this time just when India is due to arrive in Pakistan.
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No matter what time your guests arrive, pretend they’re early, so naturally you’re not ready.
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I value time,hence I shall endeavor to arrive any occasion that concerns me, before time,as long as ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
It should make then ashamed if they don't arrive at anything this time.
GABRIEL GARCIA MARQUEZ
All these people have been in the business for a very long time.
JOYCE EVERETT
If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.
LEWIS CARROLL
If everybody minded their own business, the world would go around a great deal faster than it does.
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Why is a raven like a writing desk?
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...Is Wonderland really a wonder...when you have nowhere to land?
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For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that v...
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I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpi...
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But I don't want to go among mad people," said Alice. "Oh, you can't help that," said the cat. "We'r...
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No reason for a feverish rush
For we will all arrive in the same place
At the right time...
DEJAN STOJANOVIC
We have to keep a good frame of mind and not overlook La Villa. Anytime you do that, youre going to ...
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What has changed is our state of mind. We had not seen this for a long time.
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She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to do something with it.
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I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time...
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Have you ever had one of those moments when time just freezes? You
know, when the world suddenl...
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How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
The Q...
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Just be silent, humble and teachable. If you ever think you know it all, that is the beginning of yo...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
He (Walker) is so talented. He is a heck of a player. You just imagine when he was really in his pri...
TONY LA RUSSA
I like the consistency of having people in my life for a long time.
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If you’ll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead,...
JOEL OSTEEN
How come "burbled" gets to be in the Oxford English Dictionary but "tulgy" doesn't? Hm?
MIKE TUCKER
Lewis Carroll. He was an odd one. Real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. Completely denied having a...
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Our people have waited for this a long time.
HANK GOBIN
But we're not looking to replace Whitman-Walker if Whitman-Walker wants to continue to provide the s...
MICHAEL WEINSTEIN
who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody.
J.D. SALINGER
Why it's simply impassible!
Alice: Why, don't you mean impossible?
Door: No, I do mean imp...
LEWIS CARROLL
Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?”

The c...
LEWIS CARROLL
A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many l...
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A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficie...
MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT SHELLEY
If you wear a mask for too long, there will come a time when you can not remove it without removing ...
MATSHONA DHLIWAYO
for once in a long time, he felt good. No worries, just possibilities. Endless possibilities.
DAVID BALDACCI
[I'm convinced Walker can grow a full beard during a nine-inning game.] If I go 0-for-5, I'll shave ...
TODD WALKER
Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positiv...
LOU HOLTZ
I just wanted to play a cowboy for a long time.
DANIEL CRAIG
Mind your mind. Think of distinctive footprints. Insofar as all things move forward and not backward...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH
Everything is just for a while. Everything is just for its time. Everything is finite. Live and love...
RASHEED OGUNLARU
Click, buy, checkout and wait for your order to arrive—it's that simple. There's no need for creat...
CHRIS CONSORTE
Alice: Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
The Cheshire Cat: That dep...
LEWIS CARROLL
Hamburgers have been around for a long, long time and there's a wear-out factor there. There has bee...
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He say, Celie, tell me the truth. You don't like me cause I'm a man?
I blow my nose. take off t...
ALICE WALKER
I’m mad about the waste that happens when people who love each other can’t even bring themselves...
ALICE WALKER
Even with all of the things that are so awful, if you walk into your yard and stay there looking at ...
ALICE WALKER
My mother had bought a sewing machine for me. When I went away to college, she gave me a sewing mach...
ALICE WALKER
Sucking up to the biggies won't get us anywhere.
ALICE WALKER
Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about...
ALICE WALKER
When we have pleaded for understanding, our character has been distorted; when we have asked for sim...
ALICE WALKER
The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout.
ALICE WALKER
She standing there looking me straight in the eye. She look tired and her jaws full of air.
I s...
ALICE WALKER
God is different to us now, after all these years in Africa. More spirit than ever before, and more ...
ALICE WALKER
His little whistle sound like it lost way down a jar, and the jar in the bottom of the creek. P. 64
ALICE WALKER
I believe God is everything, say Shug. Everything that is or ever was or ever will be. And when you ...
ALICE WALKER
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER
Like I said...fine with me.
ALICE WALKER
Who am I to tell her who to love? My job just to love her good and true myself. P. 237
ALICE WALKER
Every time I conjure up a rock, I throw it.
ALICE WALKER
The Olinka girls do not believe girls should be educated. When I asked a mother why she thought this...
ALICE WALKER
Us sing and dance, make faces and give flower bouquets, trying to be loved. You ever notice that tre...
ALICE WALKER
Here's the thing, say Shug. The thing I believe. God is inside you and inside everybody else. You co...
ALICE WALKER
The more I wonder, the more I love.
ALICE WALKER
Man corrupt everything, say Shug. He on your box of grits, in your head, and all over the radio. He ...
ALICE WALKER
Oh, Celie, unbelief is a terrible thing. And so is the hurt we cause others unknowingly.
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