In a novel, you'll find yourself in a world of possibilities. You'll find shelter there.
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LUDO MILNE Youll never know how strong you truly are, until u get under some weight.
EULLYS "JEWELZ" HINNANT III You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER Aut viam inveniam aut faciam tibi.
I will either find a way or make one.
KENDALL RYAN Imagine life as a game, a game that is filled with obstacles and hazards to overcome but sometimes y...
GARY F EVANS... One's ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature
ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE The children are intrigued by these invitation, and it's only a matter of minutes before they find t...
RACHELLE DOORLEY Alice: I didn't know that cheshire cats grinned. In fact, I didn't know that cats could grin.
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ROD ESPINOSA Want peace in the world? Find it in yourself first.
CHRISTOPHER SHEA Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. It (Oxford) is a sanctuary in which exploded systems and obsolete prejudices find shelter and protec...
ADAM SMITH It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing the...
DAISAKU IKEDA the deceased don’t want you to forget about them. They just want you to move past it; not to dwell...
JUSTIN PYFROM If you live in the elite world of dance, you find yourself in a world rife with racism. Let's fa...
ALVIN AILEY Youll never get mixed up if you simply tell the truth. Then you dont have to remember what you have ...
SAM RAYBURN Crack heads and homeless find shelter in the rundown houses.
LARRY BAILEY We each have a special something we can get only at a special time of our life. like a small flame. ...
HARUKI MURAKAMI Allie, what do the Stars tell me to do? You know I don't understand the scientific part.
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN The capacity of humans to believe in what seems to me highly improbable- from table tapping to the s...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN It is strange being in a crowd where no one knows your face or cares for your purpose. In Lykos, I w...
PIERCE BROWN I read all of the nonfiction that I could find on Chechnya, and all the while, I was searching for a...
ANTHONY MARRA Curiouser and curiouser!
LEWIS CARROLL Alice:How long is forever? White Rabbit:Sometimes, just one second.
LEWIS CARROLL ALICE
She drank from a bottle called DRINK ME
And she grew so tall,
She ate from a pl...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Do you know what they call themselves, all these people?"
Alyss shook her head. How could she ...
FRANK BEDDOR I'm afraid so.Your totally bonkers.But I tellyou a secret.All the best people are.
LEWIS CARROLL (The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As so...
DAVID ABRAHAM [The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... A...
DAVID ABRAHAM [The impression is] that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up. As so...
DAVID ABRAHAM (The impression is) that Dade County is like Alice in Wonderland where up is down, down is up, ... A...
DAVID ABRAHAM We call it a wardrobe. It's a magic place where children find out that the world is a place of infin...
ANDREW ADAMSON Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.
KRISTIN CAST It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself...
AUGUST WILSON Life is a journey- not only to see the world- to find yourself, your place in the world, and your ha...
DEBASISH MRIDHA To look into that persons eyes and find yourself so completely lost in another world, a world full o...
LILY COLLINS You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a lo...
NICOLAS MALEBRANCHE Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences) worth writi...
BETTE GREENE Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
MADELEINE L'ENGLE Even Lot might have been mistaken. But that’s what he promised ‘em – his virgin daughters, you...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN God is the strength in which I trust." Lesson 47, A Course In Miracles
HELEN SCHUCMAN There isn't an hour of my life without you in it. I mend the boats, test them and all the while the ...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Let’s consider your age to begin with — how old are you?’
‘I’m seven and a half...
LEWIS CARROLL We find ourselves in a world of transporting pleasures, ravishing beauties, and tantalising possibil...
C.S. LEWIS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS I know that's what people say-- you'll get over it. I'd say it, too. But I know it's not true. Oh, y...
BETTY SMITH Look for the possibilities... rather than... locking doors too soon that might in time have opened.
ALEKSANDRA LAYLAND When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
PAT ROBERTSON 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.
LEWIS CARROLL Why is a raven like a writing desk?
LEWIS CARROLL ...Is Wonderland really a wonder...when you have nowhere to land?
RAVEN GREGORY For you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that v...
LEWIS CARROLL I wish creatures wouldn't be so easily offended!", "You'll get used to it in time," said the Caterpi...
LEWIS CARROLL To find yourself, feel the world around you.
DEBASISH MRIDHA If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Love is another word for Buckle up and Hang on, caz youll be taken for a ride. Somtimes goes fast, g...
AMIR RIVEROLL What you have to find is, yourself first.
NISHI DE SILVA Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Optimistic people with a growth mindset always find a way.
KEVIN J. DONALDSON 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...
MIKE TUCKER Even though we closed the forest, (Rita) evacuees tried to find shelter in the campgrounds. At Caney...
ERNIE MURRAY I'll be your blanket, baby. Wrap yourself up in me. Let me give you shelter, in the winter of this w...
JOHN MARK GREEN If you find yourself cutting corners, go in a circle instead
BENNY BELLAMACINA Hide yourself in God, so when a man wants to find you he will have to go there first.
SHANNON L. ALDER This instant is the only time there is.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I am never upset for the reason I think.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Teach only love for that is what you are.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only my condemnation injures me.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES I can elect to change all thoughts that hurt.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES Only your mind can produce fear.
A COURSE IN MIRACLES You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets ...
RAY LAMONTAGNE When you have faith in yourself, the possibilities are endless.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS I relieve and release your hurt that you may be set free.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND What if I should fall right through the center of the earth... oh, and come out the other side, wher...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND People who suffer from migraine with aura can sometimes experience a phenomenon called the
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Mad Hatter: No wonder you're late. Why, this watch is exactly two days slow.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND I don't care much where ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Doorknob: Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND We're all mad here.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice: It would be so nice if something made sense for a change.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND The Mad Hatter: Have I gone mad?
Alice Kingsley: I'm afraid so. You're entirely bonkers. But I'll te...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Alice falls down the rabbit hole and her dress poofs up like a parachute] Alice: Well, after this I ...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Sometimes, I believe in as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND "If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because ever...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND Spin City.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND You mean you ca'n't take *less*. It's very easy to take *more* than nothing.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND [Montana wheat variety yield increases give Montana farmers more wheat to sell, but the situation re...
ALICE IN WONDERLAND If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the ...
MARíA BRANDáN ARáOZ Nothing that is good can become stuck – and if it is stuck, it can’t be any good!
SILVIA HARTMANN The story goes as the line follow... alone... loony....
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That's what's happening....
DEYTH BANGER Needle in a haystack's easy - just bring a magnet."
Eliot stared witheringly at Hardison....
KEITH R.A. DECANDIDO These philosophically fun ideas usually satisfy nobody. Nonetheless, they remind us that ignorance i...
NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON This is the spot where I will lie
When life has had enough of me,
These are the grasses ...
SARA TEASDALE I've got no other home to go to, not anymore. When I look at England now I see a dead place, Rupert....
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ANDREW HOFFMAN I don't need the trophy or ribbon to remind me of my accomplishments or anything.
ANDREW HOFFMAN If you contrast the productivity that comes from a networked or capitalist distribution of resources...
REID HOFFMAN The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive...
PAUL HOFFMAN That's what friends should do. cherish the good and pretend not to notice the harmless rest.
BETH HOFFMAN I want to do the best I can, since I made it, and just have fun.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I think it's like 21 hours a week (training time).
ANNELISE HOFFMAN I don't really have a favorite event, I like them all.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN We do more routines as the regional gets closer.
ANNELISE HOFFMAN Our goal is to empower consumers. We're trying to give them the most up-to-date information possible...
AMANDA HOFFMAN People are spending a long time on the site. They're looking at their own homes, their bosses' homes...
AMANDA HOFFMAN We are in beta mode. We completely expected that some of our data was not going to be accurate.
AMANDA HOFFMAN Oh, my goodness. That may be a bug.
AMANDA HOFFMAN We know it's rocky right now. But the sky's the limit.
AMANDA HOFFMAN All of this was public information; it was just really hard for the consumer to get.
AMANDA HOFFMAN It's really designed to give you a starting point. If you're not feeling well, you can enter in your...
AMANDA HOFFMAN You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimil...
ABBIE HOFFMAN Starting a company is like throwing yourself off the cliff and assembling an airplane on the way dow...
REID HOFFMAN The death penalty and the arguments it inspires don't only involve ethics, morals, and justice. ...
REID HOFFMAN