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V. E. Schwab

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SOTERO M LOPEZ II Everyday people all over the world take advantage of life, they abuse it and dice with it.Life is so...
GARY F EVANS... Just like any one of us, they started with no road map or guarantee of success. But they went out an...
CAMILLE SWEENEY Do the thing and you will have the power.
RALPH WALDO EMERSON dont wait for next minute, next hour, next day, next week, next year, just do it if you want to do i...
ANON QUOTER Do it and they will follow
CHARMAINE J. FORDE Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It’s quite possible to do anything...
JOHN LENNON If you want a revenge, don't hold it. It poisons you.
Either you just let the grudge go, or mak...
TOBA BETA If it's about what I like, I like opera as a music and deathstep and dubstep.
DEYTH BANGER What you do will project you
SOTONYE ANGA Let's don't do it again and again, posting the same, saying the same and the same. It's pointless!
DEYTH BANGER There's doubt in trying.
Just do it or stop thinking.
TOBA BETA Just do it... that's all... no matter what, when and where... but just do it.
DEYTH BANGER Don't think it. Do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead.
ERIN HUNTER If you can dream it, you can do it.
ENZO FERRARI 28. Feelings are neither right nor wrong. It's what you do with them that causes the problems.
JAMES C. DOBSON ...So to be fast to don't be long and to try to be short... If you want to play the best game, creat...
DEYTH BANGER To find why that happen and why this is happening, you should start from the beginning the problem c...
DEYTH BANGER You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson...
DEYTH BANGER Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
CRAIG GROESCHEL I just have work to do; I just do it.
IAN MACKAYE ...wanting change is step one, but step two is taking it.
ISAAC MARION Just do it ! Just don't waste your time learning how to do it !
EPHDAN So, whatever you want to do, just do it....Making a damn fool of yourself is absolutely essential.
GLORIA STEINEM Just because it's a trend should we do it?
BERT MCCOY I showed people that it's not about guessing what people can do. It's about saying, 'Her...
DAVID ORTIZ While technology is important, it's what we do with it that truly matters.
MUHAMMAD YUNUS If you can do it, why you won't do it???
If you have chance why you won't use it?
DEYTH BANGER It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU It's not what other people believe you can do; it's what you believe you can do.
GAIL DEVERS It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.
GAIL DEVERS God walked with humanity in the cool of the day and gave them the most difficult and hottest parts o...
JOEY TALLADINO If you don't think it.
You'll never do it!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS It's very juicy to twirl your mustache and figure out why people do the horrible things that the...
ZELJKO IVANEK Why can't people just say they were moved? Why do they have to say it's sappy?
CASEY AFFLECK If it's what you do and you can do it, then you do it.
VAN MORRISON If you think you can do it, you can.
JOHN BURROUGHS It ain't bragging if you can do it.
DIZZY DEAN My father didn't tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it
CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND i can only change, what i can do with my own hands.
MOHAMMED ABDI MOHAMMED What if you couldn't bank on a future...what would you do now? Things can change in the blink of an ...
ELIZABETH ALRAUNE Saying tomorrow only risks your chances of waking up after today.
YAHYA MOHAMUD I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.
HERMAN MELVILLE Do anything, save to lie down and die!
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve
W. CLEMENT STONE It's a rotten job, but somebody's got to do it.
AGATHA CHRISTIE I won't do advertising if they bring a layout and say, 'This is what we want to do,' bec...
DAVID BAILEY Storytelling is the game. It's what we all do. It's why Nike is Nike, it's why Apple is ...
GARY VAYNERCHUK I'm interested in why people compromise when they shouldn't. It comes back to what V's a...
DAVID LLOYD Do you know why dogs are man's best friend? It's because they're not in politics.
YITZHAK NAVON Do what you do so well that even if you weren't paid to do it. Eventually others will want to pay yo...
LORRIN L. LEE It's not important to how the band functions or to what we do. That's just many people's...
BRODY ARMSTRONG Contrary to what we've been told, life is simple. We complicate matters with our choices.
MICHELLE RICHARDSON Financial institutions like to call what they do trading. Let's be honest. It's not trading;...
GRAYDON CARTER It's amazing that people love 'Family Guy' as much as they do. It's great.
MILA KUNIS You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever...
GREG RUSEDSKI It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN That's what you have to learn with life. It's your life at the end of the day. There's r...
TREVOR JACKSON Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that...
LEBRON JAMES Hair and make-up people don't get enough credit for what they do. It's not just making peopl...
KRISTEN CONNOLLY I think to try to understand human behavior and why people do what they do, and what in their lives ...
HALEY BENNETT It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, s...
LIAM GALLAGHER Everything known and referred to as “impossible” is often what has not been attempted before. It...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what player...
J. R. MOEHRINGER It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am.
PETER O'TOOLE I find it irresponsible to go, 'She's an actress, what does she know?' That means if you...
EVA LONGORIA To customers, it's the shirt that matters, not where it's made.
GAUTAM SINGHANIA It's not the destination that matters. It's the change of scene.
BRIAN ENO Throw caution to the wind and just do it.
CARRIE UNDERWOOD I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, somet...
KAMI GARCIA “If you think, you'll get to know it. But if you do, you'll get to feel it.”
MOHIT KHEMLANI When you see something "FUN" and "EASY" ,, Trust ME.. it is "HARD" TO DO IT! .. But it's not Impossi...
MOHAMMAD SULAIMAN ALJABER The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Have a robust mindset; dare to move any mountain!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS There outside there is a lot of stuff which you learn, the clock illusion, that you live in the past...
DEYTH BANGER I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
PHARRELL WILLIAMS It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.
BRYAN CLAY I think that half of us feel fraudulent in our lives anyway. There's that strange disconnect of ...
CARRIE BROWNSTEIN As far as I'm concerned, an audience is an audience. Whether it's an audience in Hull or the...
SYLVESTER MCCOY God is Alien?? Think on this, it's sounds very interesting, is he....?? or he is not???
DEYTH BANGER It's not what you can do, but the way you do it that counts.
MAE WEST They say I can open movies, and that's nice in that it puts into people's minds that women c...
JULIA ROBERTS It's vital that the monarchy keeps in touch with the people. It's what I try and do.
PRINCESS DIANA For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine's Day is that it gets geared up as the day to...
MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY I think that designers and architects need to educate the people who don't quite know what they ...
DAN PINK Historically, if you look at great civilizations, why do they crumble? Is it because of what's o...
PHYLICIA RASHAD Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some g...
CHRISTOPHER WALKEN It's a complete lie, why do people buy these papers? It's not the truth I'm here to say....
MICHAEL JACKSON It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
EPICTETUS You are an adult and you don't understand me and what are the differences between the adult and the ...
DEYTH BANGER I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or po...
JAZMINE SULLIVAN It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther...
NEIL GAIMAN It's mad what each generation vilifies. It's not necessarily to do with logic.
LAURA FRASER Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It&...
MICHAEL JACKSON You don’t expect the goat to hatch the hen’s eggs. People do what they know very well. Don’t e...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Let your vision be ahead of your sight! Dream beyond what you see and never let your environment det...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR People don't buy what you do, they buy why you do it.
SIMON SINEK It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t...
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CHARLES SCHWAB I want to believe that there's more. That we could be more. Hell, we could be heroes.
VICTORIA SCHWAB She used to think that if she stole enough, the want would fade, the hunger would go away, but maybe...
V.E. SCHWAB Da used to say that lies were easy, but trust was hard. Trust is like faith: it can turn people into...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Lying is easy. But it’s lonely.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Technology is going to revolutionize almost every sector, leading to the demise of many traditional ...
KLAUS SCHWAB There's a difference between fear and paralysis. And I've learned that I don't have to "grow up" to ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Be lost. Give up. Give In. in the end It would be better to surrender before you begin. be lost. Be ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Sing you a song and steal your soul.
VICTORIA SCHWAB Ah, there you are, Bard,” came a familiar voice, and she turned to see Alucard striding over.
V.E. SCHWAB Doubt is like a current you have to swim against, one that saps your strength.
VICTORIA SCHWAB When I was 14, I did all kinds of different odd jobs. I had a chicken farm, had an ice cream operati...
CHARLES SCHWAB We can talk in the abstract about what a rebuilt New Orleans would look like. In the end that is not...
JIM SCHWAB Well," I ask, leaning over him, "do you wish to stay?"
"I do."
"And why is that, Cole?" I ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Europe has never had a single or unified voice in world affairs: a common foreign policy. It has oft...
KLAUS SCHWAB I frankly think we in the financial service world believe we need appropriate kinds of regulations. ...
CHARLES SCHWAB Victor wondered about lots of things. He wondered about himself (whether he was broken, or special, ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The paper called Eli a hero. The word made Victor laugh. Not just because it was absurd, but because...
VICTORIA SCHWAB The moments that define lives aren't always obvious. They don't always scream LEDGE, and nine times ...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Victor was naturally quiet, but even more so under pressure, which gave his peers the distinct impre...
VICTORIA SCHWAB Like everything was real, but nothing mattered.
VICTORIA SCHWAB I don’t want to be forgotten.
VICTORIA SCHWAB There were some people you had to stay away from, people who poisoned everything in reach. Then ther...
VICTORIA SCHWAB You don't understand," gasped Eli. "No one understands."
"When no one understands, that's usual...
V.E. SCHWAB The absence of pain led to an absence of fear, and the absence of fear led to a disregard for conseq...
V.E. SCHWAB Did you know that when you take away a person's fear of pain, you take away their fear of death? You...
VICTORIA SCHWAB You must make time for that which matters, for that which defines you: your passion, your progress, ...
V.E. SCHWAB I watch you, and it's like watching two people.
VICTORIA SCHWAB