It seemed to Scobie that life was immeasurably long. Couldn’t the test of man have been carried out in fewer years? Couldn’t we have committed our first major sin at seven, have ruined ourselves for love or hate at ten, have clutched at redemption on a fifteen-year-old deathbed?
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Related We have a right to life, not on it. DANIEL MELGAçO When you take a dig at someone, make sure that they don't have a bigger shovel. ANTHONY T.HINCKS Why be greedy when you can have it all. ANTHONY T. HINCKS Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ... SARAH DARER LITTMAN While getting lost in all those little things that seem so important, don't forget the little things... VIRGINIA ALISON A man may have no bad habits and have worse MARK TWAIN Don't do it, because you have to do it.
Do it, because you love to do it. PRITISH PATTANAIK Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have? ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's the imperfections that make things beautiful JENNY HAN Just because you haven't got a home, doesn't make you homeless. and Just because you don't... ANTHONY T. HINCKS There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S... CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN 'Original Sin' is one of those ideas that has been circulating for several years at the Marv... JASON AARON I believe that the most important thing for a couple of any sort, to realize in their relationship w... C. JOYBELL C. While I dance I cannot judge, I cannot hate, I cannot separate myself from life. I can only be joyfu... HANS BOS Strength is not something you have, it's something you find. EMMA SMITH Words have a taste, sweet but subtle, like dark chocolate; the scent of old bookshops; a flamenco rh... CHLOE THURLOW To believe in something can be inspiration for many people .To believe is to have faith in what you ... GARY F EVANS... What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. "Fear?" he thought for a moment. 'Well, ... MITCH ALBOM Love- the infatuation kind- 'he's so handsome, she's so beautiful'- that can shrivel. As soon as som... MITCH ALBOM If you stopped yourself every time you said "I have to", and changed it to "I get to" it might chang... KYLE PAGERLY Happiness is wanting what you have instead of wanting what you don't have. LORRIN L. LEE You can BE, DO, and HAVE ...absolutely ANYTHING you really, really want to BE, DO, and HAVE. LORRIN L. LEE We tend to not appreciate what we have until we lose it. LORRIN L. LEE Now they have a riddle. - Criminal Minds DEYTH BANGER Pathetic is when you assume the worst, because you are incapable of thinking beyond your own mental ... EMMA PAUL Those who hate, are merely wallowing in self pity. Those who lie about someone to destroy his or her... EMMA PAUL Words have power," Isaac answered. Words begin and end wars. They create and destroy families. They ... LORI HANDELAND You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Take life on life's terms - one day at a time. And have fun while you're doing it. JOE PERRY Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do
something crazy to remember your alive! NEIL OLSSON At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make somethi... CHUCK PALAHNIUK I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. GEORGE BURNS I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. GEORGE F. BURNS Having riches ultimately means having few needs. J.R. RIM If we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love, and behave ... MITCH ALBOM All year long, we have relied on our defense and we are going to have to do that at state. AL SNYDER When we fall in love at a glance, the question we should ask ourselves (and this would apply to both... ROSEMARY SULLIVAN You looked at me then like you knew me, and I thought it really was Eden, and I couldn't take your e... TONI MORRISON If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire... VICTOR HUGO If you make it clear that you have a busy, interesting life, but that you'd like to fit her in to yo... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE For several moments he did not move from the doorway: he heard the girl’s soft, thin voice rise ab... JOHN WILLIAMS What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for... SOURCE UNKNOWN I'm in a situation now, and I have been for ten or fifteen years, where there's no point in my being... PHILIP LEVINE To learn, sometimes you have to feel the fool. JEFFREY FRY We couldn’t have done it without somebody else! We couldn’t have won this race or got the Fleece... RICK RIORDAN DO what you LOVE. BE with those you LOVE. HAVE the things you LOVE. LORRIN L. LEE When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. B... MARK TWAIN We have six or seven kids who have scored more than 100 points this year. It's been pretty effective... LARRY HALE It is a long time since I saw you lose a life, Bluestar.” Firepaw overheard Tigerclaw’s whispere... ERIN HUNTER Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away. GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ Winning seven games last year was pretty big for us, and we made major improvements. Now we hope to ... JAMIE ROTHE She was astonished, and at the same time she knew. There were many things in life like that. You cou... ANN BRASHARES It has been a long wait and at last we seemed to have an outcome for the commuters on this line. Wha... ANTHONY SMITH He couldn’t believe how lucky he was to have found a girl like her. She may have been the perfect ... JASON MEDINA Ten long years of planning and hard work by many people is finally going to come to fruition. I am h... DAVE DUPUIS Everyday fall in love with being alive MIMI NOVIC As soon as I look up, his eyes click onto my face. The breath whooshes out of my body and everything... LAUREN OLIVER I'm gonna make you feel like you touched heaven just by looking into my eyes PELLE You may fall in love at the first sight. Just make sure to take the second look. KEN NDARU Out here we, at least, have been able to be ourselves. CONNIE MILLER We have a number of major budget productions that either have looked seriously at or are in the proc... BILL ARNOLD When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... MARK TWAIN When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man aro... JOSH BILLINGS When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man ar... MARK TWAIN I must have been six or seven years old at the time. My family lived on the bottom floor of a two-st... REGIS PHILBIN Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do. DANIEL MELGAçO Love at first sight is a polite phrase used when one wants to fuck a stranger SHEEJA JOSE Words don’t take you anywhere, at the most they aid in a mental projection; it’s the experience ... RAMANA PEMMARAJU This puts finality on two cases that have been pending for a long time. Ten years seems like a long ... BILL JONSON DO what you LOVE.
BE with those you LOVE.
HAVE the things you LOVE.
And ...your LIFE will be well-li... LORRIN L. LEE We have at our fingertips information that 500 years ago would have made the poorest man a prince. JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN We do not have any seniors. In the past, we have always had at least one or two seniors on the team,... LINDA PRUITT Enjoy the challenges you face today, some people have none. THOMAS FLAJNIK - ANTICHIMERAPODAL Have confidence, will do. MUHAMMED HAIDER Be the best you can be. Do the best you can do. Have the best you can have. LORRIN L. LEE Did you know that what you really, really, really want ...you now have? LORRIN L. LEE Lull me with your lullabies.. Serenade me with your souls. Make me dance with symphonies.. Do jazz w... KIM JOHN A. AGUIRRE Trick to getting something is to pretend you already have it. ANGEL ORTIZ I don't have a lot of time to speak... but we will speak soon. DEYTH BANGER Humans don't have any type of interest... HAVING SO MUCH STUFF AROUND THEM AND SO LITTLE INTEREST IN... DEYTH BANGER It's time to change... it's time to start working on yourself.... improve yourself.... you don't hav... DEYTH BANGER Gift ain't what you take by effort, as swag ain't what you worthy have. TOBA BETA But language is malleable, and it is not always on the side of truth. This is something every writer... CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS And we're such language-based creatures that to some extent we cannot know what we cannot name. And ... JOHN GREEN Everyone has there own good reasons for being what they are being, doing what they are doing, and ha... LORRIN L. LEE I have fun at work. CAROL KANE Being our first year we knew we had a good group of girls. I don't think anybody else would have exp... JENNIFER NOLTE I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine... JACK ABBOTT I am at this moment thirty-seven years old. Since aged twelve I have been free the sum total of nine... JACK HENRY ABBOTT The monkey is off our back. We have been struggling for three games. This is our first home game in ... DAWN DAVIS As long as we have confidence going into our matches, we have a great shot at winning some of those ... ALISON OJEDA I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. All at once, I couldn’t figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a tor... JOHN GREEN Not at all. You look back seven years when the transition really started to happen, you rarely have ... REGGIE SANDERS She opened her eyes and met his. The impact was so strong he was amazed that his fingers continued p... PATRICIA BRIGGS Not everyone has the time to be normal. LJUPKA CVETANOVA We have added nobody in the last four years to that department, ... We have an opportunity to fix a ... JOHN DALTON At the time, it was the right thing for our team. We think we made ourselves better in the long run ... DAVE BARR Which was why he reflexively turned when a flash of iridescence caught his eye. His first thought wa... JULIE ANNE LONG
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