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Samuel Butler

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All animals except man know that the ultimate point of life is to enjoy it. -Samuel Butler.
SAMUEL BUTLER You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently.
Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m...
SARAH J. MAAS She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison
SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you.
SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain...
SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need
SARAH J. MAAS I turned.
Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere...
SARAH J. MAAS Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli...
MARGARET MITCHELL Life is a re-discovery.
BRIAN BLESSED I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing ...
JOHN MUIR Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM Life is a predicament which precedes death.
HENRY JAMES If you think that life is a celebration full of party poppers and merry go rounds it's not it's a ga...
GARY F EVANS... Life Is a Misconception.
DEYTH BANGER Life is a desire!
DEYTH BANGER She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice.
APURVA GAGLANI For me, my life is a journey.
JAY ELECTRONICA History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me."
Stars flicker...
SARAH J. MAAS Life is a risk.
CARMELO ANTHONY For though to smatter ends of Greek Or Latin be the rhetoric Of pedants counted, and vain-glor...
SAMUEL BUTLER (1) Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and sear...
AVIJEET DAS That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal.
I was a survivor, and I was strong.
I would no...
SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?"

There was nothing but uncompromising w...
SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you.

His first words to me— not a lie at a...
SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door.
And I was not a mouse.
I ...
SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared.
SARAH J. MAAS He drained his glass. "I made a mistake."
"It's not the end of the world if you do that every n...
SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ...
SARAH J. MAAS Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ...
PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev...
ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?"
"Ah. The Suriel to...
SARAH J. MAAS Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
PAT CONROY Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right.
POPE FRANCIS How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful.
EVANS G. VALENS Anything which interferes with my social life is a no-no.
CILLA BLACK In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of...
VICTOR HUGO War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA Life is a school of probability.
WALTER BAGEHOT This life is a process of learning.
LAURYN HILL Life is a process. We are a process. The universe is a process.
ANNE WILSON SCHAEF Everybody in life is a chameleon.
MELANIE CHISHOLM Life is a grand party.
EZRA MILLER Be grateful for every moment and every breath.
TERESA COLLINS Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complime...
STEPHEN FRY Because death is the only thing that could have ever kept him from you.
ALLY CARTER To the people who look at the stars and wish, Rhys."
Rhys clinked his glass against mine. “To...
SARAH J. MAAS Males are horrible creatures, aren’t they?
SARAH J. MAAS When you spend so long trapped in darkness, you find that the darkness begins to stare back.
SARAH J. MAAS Many atrocities, have been done in the name of the greater good.
SARAH J. MAAS Aemon’s blind white eyes came open. “Egg?” he said, as the rain streamed down his cheeks. “E...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN But I forgot to tell him,” I said quietly, opening the door, “that the villain is usually the pe...
SARAH J. MAAS My life is a struggle.
VOLTAIRE I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Every experience in life, everything with which we have come in contact in life, is a chisel which h...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya.....
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN This garden is your life. Of course, there are the occasional weeds—but more than anything, this g...
SETH ADAM SMITH The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create ne...
ALFRED JARRY As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people have been befuddled by the mysteries...
LEWIS N. ROE When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Swift as a deer. Quiet as a shadow. Fear cuts deeper than swords. Quick as a snake. Calm as still wa...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You know nothing, Jon Snow.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I wish I was home", She said miserably.
She tried so hard to be brave,
to be fierce as a...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Life is a mountain of solvable problems, and I enjoy that.
JAMES DYSON Life is a lot like skateboarding.
LIL WAYNE All life is a manifestation of the spirit, the manifestation of love.
MORIHEI UESHIBA For me, life is a bowl of cherries.
SISSY SPACEK Life is a right, not collateral or casual.
SUHEIR HAMMAD Time is life.
Time for birth, time for death.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A day will come when you think yourself safe and happy, and suddenly your joy will turn to ashes in ...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON To trust someone you must firstly remember that it is a two way street that will go all the way if y...
GARY F EVANS... It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR There are different kinds of darkness,” Rhys said. I kept my eyes shut. “There is the darkness t...
SARAH J. MAAS Come on, Feyre. We don’t bite. Unless you ask us to.
SARAH J. MAAS My mate. Death incarnate. Night triumphant.
SARAH J. MAAS If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn’t stop thinking it over and over a...
SARAH J. MAAS We need hope, or else we cannot endure.
SARAH J. MAAS You mistake patience for forbearance.
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.
ROB LIANO You get out the hammer and chisel. If the bullets are behind steel, you've got to get them out.
DOUG MURPHY A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.
MADAME DE STAEL Never judge a person how he died, but how he lived.
RUDOLF JEROME RAGAY I live next to the quarry which I remember from its later stages of life as just a large water-fille...
ALAN ROSS Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi...
MARIANA FULGER

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SAMUEL BUTLER An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard only one side of the case; God ha...
SAMUEL BUTLER The wish to spread those opinions that we hold conducive to our own welfare is so deeply rooted in ...
SAMUEL BUTLER To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, And count their chickens ere they're hatched
SAMUEL BUTLER People are lucky and unlucky...according to the ratio between what they get and what they have been ...
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat; Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate
SAMUEL BUTLER Quoth Hudibras, Friend Ralph, thou hast Outrun the constable at last
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