Indeed? Well, I shall bring you presents so long as it pleases me and so long as I see things that will enhance your charms. I shall bring you dark-green watered silk for a frock to match the bonnet. And I warn you that I am not kind. I am tempting you with bonnets and bangles and leading you into a pit. Always remember I never do anything without reason and I never give anything without expecting something in return. I always get paid.
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Related I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I Let whoever can do so deceive me, he will never bring it about that I am nothing, so long as I conti... RENé DESCARTES That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong. , THANK YOU FOR SMOKING, 2006 I will see you bereft of all that you have, of home and happiness and beautiful things. I will see y... NAOMI NOVIK A quote isn't a quote until that quote is quotably quoted by and official Quotesman I AM TIMEPIECE The internet has too much information out there for you to ask a dumb question I AM TIMEPIECE I am no longer a rare breed, I am an endangered species I AM TIMEPIECE I wish there was an edit button on Life because sometimes we don't realize the mistakes we've made u... I AM TIMEPIECE Life are full of memories, capture them I AM TIMEPIECE I don't fit in because I was born to stand out I AM TIMEPIECE He answereth him, and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I ... BIBLE Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how... BIBLE I like to do new things, so I always take on roles that I feel will keep me on my toes. I never want... ARCHIE PANJABI My Lord God, I have no idea where I am going. I do not see the road ahead of me. I cannot know for c... THOMAS MERTON I appreciate the fact that you have one redeeming quality, Jack, but that is all it is. Just a hint ... K.A. LINDE FE + C is steel. U + I is love. JOAN COLLEEN R. KATIPUNAN I've never before given anybody anything without expecting anything in return. I always thought some... DENISE MOORE Even at 80, I shall say that I am yet to start, Yes! I shall say that I am yet to start, for that sh... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhe... NICHOLAS SPARKS I am a Dancer; rehearsing the steps of our unheard song with utmost perfection. Never will you... 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SWAMI VIVEKANANDA Never shall I forget the days I spent with you. Continue to be my friend, as you will always find me... LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother. EMMA MICHAELS FACT: I am who I am, I will never pretend to be someone am not. I go without makeup,I can go without... IRENE GOODWILL Let me tell you something, sweetheart. I love you. I love you for who you are, what you do and how y... ANA CORDOBA My dearest, I write this letter by candlelight as you lie sleeping. And though I can't hear th... NICHOLAS SPARKS Yesterday I finally realized that all the things I thought were wrong about you were actually the th... LISA KLEYPAS I am not an angel,' I asserted; 'and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. Mr. Rochester, ... CHARLOTTE BRONTë I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am. What you see is what you get. DANA PLATO Do me a favor?” Anything. I’ll do anything you ask me to, so long as you’re shirtless... COLLEEN HOOVER I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES Never shall I forget the time I spent with you. Please continue to be my friend, as you will always ... LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN For if you feel for me as i do for you - then I am asking you to tear out your heart and live withou... DIANA GABALDON Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long nig... ELIE WIESEL Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back tw... OSCAR WILDE Even at 80, I shall say that I am yet to start, for that shall give me the real reason never ever to... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you ... JEAN-BERTRAND ARISTIDE Surely your enemy is the one who shall be without posterity, / Say: O unbelievers! / I do not serve ... QURAN I was cursing and swearing at you because of that address, I hated you already because of the lies I... FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY You are the answer to every prayer I’ve offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don’t... NICHOLAS SPARKS You are the answer to every prayer I've offered. You are a song, a dream, a whisper, and I don't kno... NICHOLAS SPARKS And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis wa... JACKIE DESHANNON The memories I had with you will never be forgotten, as long as I am alive. BASIL TONG (湯鈞庭 ベーゼル) Reminiscence why do you do this when I see things? Don't do this to me. I am so well aware of the da... MARLENE M. CHAVEZ I believe that you can always learn from observation. TAMARA TUNIE The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to pu... LORD (GEORGE GORDON) BYRON The way to be immortal (I mean not to die at all) is to have me for your heir. I recommend you to pu... LORD BYRON Who am I? I am that. Nothing can change that. Words, intellect and concepts can never reach that. It... AMIT RAY Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time... , ALWAYS NOW, 1997 When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef... FREDERICK BUECHNER When you remember me, it means that you have carried something of who I am with you, that I have lef... FREDERICK BUECHNER I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am ... GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I understand you, and I shall not attempt to make you change your mind. I am too old to want to impr... MILAN KUNDERA You can tempt me, desert me, or cause me great pain; you can create a dark world that my cause me to... CHRIS STEWART Now let me get something straight: you are not in my debt. You can't be. Impossible - because I neve... ROBERT A. HEINLEIN I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with ... NEIL GAIMAN I don't consider myself as a glamour diva. If you get to know me, you will see that I am so dork... NARGIS FAKHRI Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the bla... JAMES JOYCE Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you--haunt me then. T... EMILY BRONTë I see kids and pets as similars. With both of them, you give without expecting something monetary in... JOE GREEN I always thought to myself, 'Why should I appease you, Mr. So-and-So? Why shouldn't I just be who I ... COWBOY TROY You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man wal... DAVE EGGERS I'm as loyal as anyone and will do anything for people I respect. But if you don't give that... ERIC WEDDLE I wouldn't change it," Simon said. "I wouldn't give up loving you. Not for anything. You know what R... CASSANDRA CLARE When I am gone, remember me with smiles and laughter, as that is how I will remember you. But if you... CHRISTINE ANDERSON What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b... STEPHEN R. COVEY We are nothing alike, but exactly the same. KAYLA RAE I am RESILIENT, therefore, I am unstoppable. It’s important to always remember who YOU are. No mat... STEPHANIE LAHART I can do anything you want me to do so long as I don't have to speak. LINDA EVANGELISTA Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow (I CANNOT REMEMBER) Suppose... that you acquit me... Suppose that, in view of this, you said to me 'Socrates, on this oc... SOCRATES We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm. WINSTON CHURCHILL All I know is, I got a jet I paid for and it's not coming back empty, ... You can bring anything. We... DAVID PEREZ You can take my life, but you'll never break me. So bring me your worst... And I will def... SHERRILYN KENYON I’ll never be good enough for you, I know that. But I’m no good without you, and if that makes m... SAMANTHA TOWLE Why do you paint? For exactly the same reason I breathe. Thats not an answer. There is... E. E. CUMMINGS I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to s... JERRY SEINFELD Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her. FRANCIS I Long ailments wear out pain, and long hopes, joy. STANISLAUS I Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to ma... BAUDOUIN I Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. NAPOLEON I When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. GREGORY I One should act in consonance with the way of heaven and earth, which is enduring and eternal. The su... I CHING The quiet and solitary man apprehends the inscrutable. He seeks nothing, holds to the mean, and rema... I CHING Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, p... I CHING Before a thunderstorm there is a build-up of tension which is only relieved by the explosive force o... I CHING Creativity comes from awakening and directing men's higher natures, which originate in the primal de... I CHING The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its tru... I CHING Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such re... I CHING The responses of human beings vary greatly under dangerous circumstances. The strong man advances bo... I CHING A person in danger should not try to escape at one stroke. He should first calmly hold his own, then... I CHING He who possesses the source of enthusiasm will achieve great things. Doubt not. You will gather frie... I CHING
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MARGARET SPELLINGS Again, the truth of the matter is we haven't paid that much attention to high school accountabil... MARGARET SPELLINGS We at the Department of Education are going to provide technical assistance; I've committed $14 ... MARGARET SPELLINGS We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t... MARGARET SPELLINGS I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa... MARGARET SPELLINGS The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs. MARGARET SPELLINGS I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and... MARGARET SPELLINGS What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before. MARGARET SPELLINGS Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve... MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat... MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular... MARGARET SPELLINGS Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ... MARGARET ATWOOD My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r... MARGARET WALKER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you. MARGARET ATWOOD If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz... MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage. MARGARET THATCHER The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many... MARGARET ATWOOD A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us. MARGARET THATCHER I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w... MARGARET THATCHER An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness. MARGARET ATWOOD If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word. MARGARET ATWOOD Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be... MARGARET ATWOOD I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,... MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely. MARGARET ATWOOD You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit... MARGARET ATWOOD Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo... MARGARET ATWOOD Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ... MARGARET ATWOOD So you are a vampire." "I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo... MARGARET STOHL Don't let the bastards grind you down. MARGARET ATWOOD When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict. MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls. MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts. MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar... MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a... MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,... MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let... MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer. MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ... MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you... MARGARET THATCHER