Life was about momentum. Pick a direction and don't let anything—man or storm— turn you aside.
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BRANDON SANDERSON Definitely not—you optimists just can't understand that a depressed person doesn't want you to try...
BRANDON SANDERSON Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't h...
BRANDON SANDERSON Stop moping, sule," galladon said with a grunt."It doesn't suit you-it takes a fine sense of pessimi...
BRANDON SANDERSON To their simple, degenerate minds there was only one thing to do when faced by a God more powerful t...
BRANDON SANDERSON I think we really found out a lot about ourselves. We understand we still haven't done anything yet....
ANDREW WILSON You cant live champagne life,if you cant buy beer.
I DONT KNOW Eat cheese and do a u-turn but if you dont like cheese dont eat cheese and do a u-turn
KATIE BAVISTER The law is not something holy, son. It's just a reflection of the ideals of those lucky enough to be...
BRANDON SANDERSON When life gives you lemons, say Fuck that i order apples. Dont take anything but apples.
CHRIS MACHADO It was something... the way a person's life picked up speed, the way a life was like a bullet aimed ...
JOE HILL I live my life in growing orbits which move out over this wondrous world, I am circling around God, ...
RAINER MARIA RILKE If anything, I think we're a little bit faster, a little bit younger and a little bit tougher, which...
COLIN DOYLE Could you please be as silent as the G in lasagna?
ABOUT LIFE Never under any circumstances take a sleeping pill and a laxative on the same night.
ABOUT LIFE I always dream of being a millionaire like my uncle!... He's dreaming too.
ABOUT LIFE I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their mo...
ABOUT LIFE Petrol poured down behind me and into the back. Luckily I had goggles on. It was panic. You dont thi...
GEORGE LONG I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for televis...
JUNE ALLYSON people dont know you till they meet you. dont smile if you dont want to, dont be a false person, don...
CAROLINA JANETTE GOMEZ GONZALEZ The diffrence in man kind is you do or dont.
JAYDON Dont let the urge to win everyday, blindfold you to ultimately lose in life
FAISAL KHOSA I love 'The X-Men;' that was the first comic series that I was dedicated to, because I feel ...
TARAN KILLAM I dont need a luxury life, I wanna happy and healthy life
RODZIDAH (ELIZABETH) They (Warren) were starting to pick our man-to-man defense apart, and I thought we were able to get ...
GORDIE KERKMAN It was a perfect storm of talent, personalities, direction, goals and dominance.
DAN HAMPTON No matter the direction of the wind, the smoke still goes up. Don't let anything prevent you from mo...
THE INSPIRATIONIST And let them not turn you aside from the communications of Allah after they have been revealed to yo...
QURAN Can you let war split a man in two, then turn around and expect the pieces to fit back together? I
BARBARA NICKLESS You are a delicate as a flower, One little thing can break you, so dont let anything come in the way...
DANIELLE D dont let the old break you; let the love make you
BERTRAND RUSSELL Storm in life is to test your patience & strength.Don’t let your confidence dim in the moment of d...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA Don’t ever rule out the option of U-turn in your life, because one day you will need it! The momen...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I actually didn't say anything, but a few of the guys spoke and we knew that momentum was going to b...
GRAEME SMITH We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON I wasn't complaining', Pattern complained.
BRANDON SANDERSON We can't pick and choose when to adhere to the Constitution and when to cast it aside.
DAN COATS I can pick good food, but I can't pick a good man.
DEBBIE REYNOLDS None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How woul...
AUSTIN GROSSMAN Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whol...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I wasn't about to let them just scrape by... if there was anything I could do about it.
LAURA CAMERON I Dont Believe that Anybody Feels the Way I Do about You now.
OASIS You learned a lot by playing RPGs, although not all of it was useful, or real for that matter – un...
SORIN SUCIU I think real life reflects your movies. In your life, you pick stuff that influences what movie role...
CHRIS TUCKER How do you know so much about everything? was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answ...
JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the ans...
JOHN ABBOTT 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the an...
JOHN ABBOTT I always think the really unfortunate thing about the Australian film industry is its lack of moment...
GUY PEARCE I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to p...
JOHN MADDEN dont let anyone break your heart i say you should break there heart before they break yours
DALLY SALAD Anything that you dont overcome will eventualy overtake you.
MICHAEL STRONG I was expecting a hop I didn't get, and when I started to turn, I didn't catch it. My momentum was g...
TOM GLAVINE I dont smoke , do that makes me a good man? No , I am a
good man that's why I don't smoke!
AJAY PRAKASH BHATE That's one thing I don't worry about with Brandon,
JASON CAMPBELL Denna is a wild thing," I explained. "Like a hind or a summer storm. If a storm blows down your hous...
PATRICK ROTHFUSS This is not about derailing the storm drain upgrade process or saving me $100 per year. In managemen...
DON REEVES I am tired of being used, hurt, and cast aside. It is my turn to use. My turn to hurt.
MARIE LU I let them pick one, two, or three, depending on what they want.
DENISE LYONS Dont GiVe UP iF U StIll WaNna TrY*
DonT WIpE YOUR TeARS IF YOU StiLL WANT TO Cry
DON'T SET...
TRENT REZNOR I think Brandon has grown up a lot. Nobody said it was going to be easy. But I think Brandon has a b...
ERIC WEDGE It was all about the Nate and Brandon combination. Nate is the most aggressive player you'll ever se...
JENNIFER HENDERSON I was there at all the races. Terry just kind of was, you know, like a father figure there. He just ...
TONY RAINES Can something be "almost" an accident?' Pattern asked, genuinely curious.
BRANDON SANDERSON I still take way more jobs than I turn down, and the reason that I turn down a job is that I just ca...
DALLAS ROBERTS I loved singing rock-and-roll, jazz, anything on radio, anything commercial. I was able to do anythi...
LA INDIA I'm a self-taught musician aside from what I've been able to pick up from other players.
WALTER BECKER (They are) listeners of a lie, devourers of what is forbidden; therefore if they come to you, judge ...
QURAN 'How do you know so much about everything?' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; an...
JOHN ABBOTT When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING I set writing aside when I went into theater, and then I set theater aside and subsequently had abou...
DAVID WROBLEWSKI So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier man, he who has brav...
HUNTER S. THOMPSON A wise man, when asked how he had learned so much about everything, replied: By never being ashamed ...
SOURCE UNKNOWN When you know he's got the momentum and got a run on Brian like that, you've pretty much got to go w...
TONY STEWART Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN I never was one to read a bio. ... I never thought I was important. Now any time anybody quotes me o...
DONNIE MARBUT It was more mental than anything. She got in my head and I shouldn't have let her, but I did. I was ...
LAIME CONTRERAS Dont wait for anything that will not wait for you.
SARVESH Dont wait for anything that will not wait for you.
-SARVESH So much of life is luck. One day you make a right turn and get hit by a car. Turn left and you meet ...
LORETTA SWIT I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I Storm in life is to test your patience & strength. Don’t let your confidence dim in the moment of ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA He was not anything like what was portrayed to me by several people. ... What I found was a young ma...
HUE JACKSON I thought our kids played hard and it was a hard-fought game. But there were about three or four pos...
CASEY DACUS We had a step in the right direction, but I don't accept moral victories or anything like that.
LESTER ABRAM It’s because I hate to think that anything goes to waste. I mean, that anything that was ever impo...
ROBERT SILVERBERG Anything happening,” she whispered.
“Aside from you blundering about like a lost elephant?�...
JOHN FLANAGAN If the storm direction has not changed, I see no reason why people would get panicky about this. We'...
ROB LAUGHLIN They must have forgot about me. I was running the point, then I dropped back because Brandon wanted ...
DARYL POOLE Dont let the love control your heart without letting your brain get in the middle or you will lose m...
SAD LOVE ANGEL And when distress afflicts you in the sea, away go those whom you call on except He; but when He bri...
QURAN You have to enjoy when you win, that's part of the package. We will, at some point, kind of let go o...
BOB GAINEY I just wanted to make up the distance. I could hear the kid on my shoulder, but I didn't turn around...
CHAD DIXON Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write...
GAIL COLLINS I don't really mind what people say about my love life or anything like that, but the one thing is t...
ASHLEE SIMPSON Live your life.
Live your dream.
Live like no tomorrow.
Dont let others influence your life.
Because...
FABIO MARAFIOTI Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rock...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Sometimes random things that you wouldn't think mean anything mean so much to them. With kids, y...
HEIDI KLUM It's a game of momentum, ... You can't turn the ball over, and you can't give up big plays.
BOB BENSON You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
FRANK HERBERT
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I smiled. "I'll be quiet as a buttered snail sneaking through a...
BRANDON SANDERSON To live was to be a fragment of the cosmere that was experiencing itself.
BRANDON SANDERSON Are you that afraid of being wrong? One would assume you’d be accustomed to it by now.”
He ...
BRANDON SANDERSON What kind of woman is still able to trust people after everything she's been through? If she'd been ...
BRANDON SANDERSON That's kind of what trust is, isn't it? A willful self-delusion.
BRANDON SANDERSON I once saw a spindly man carrying a stone larger than his head upon his back. He stumbled beneath th...
BRANDON SANDERSON This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
BRANDON SANDERSON Authority doesn't come from a rank.," Kaladin said, fingering the spheres in his pocket.
"Where...
BRANDON SANDERSON Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.
BRANDON SANDERSON Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right.
BRANDON SANDERSON And so, does the destination matter? Or is it the path we take? I declare that no accomplishment has...
BRANDON SANDERSON Can you feel it? Something just changed. I believe that’s the sound the world makes when it pisses...
BRANDON SANDERSON Of all the recruits in his cohort, he had learned the quickest. How to hold the spear, how to stand ...
BRANDON SANDERSON An excuse is what you make after the deed is done, while a justification is what you offer before.
BRANDON SANDERSON I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to lo...
BRANDON SANDERSON In the end, I must proclaim that no good can be achieved of false means. For the substance of our ex...
BRANDON SANDERSON If I should die,” Dalinar said, “then I would do so having lived my life right. It is not the de...
BRANDON SANDERSON Overcome your guilt. Care, but not too much. Take responsibility, but don't blame yourself. Protect,...
BRANDON SANDERSON There are two kinds of people in this world, son. Those who save lives, and those who take lives." BRANDON SANDERSON Brightness...I believe you stray into sarcasm."
"Funny.I thought I'd run straight into it...
BRANDON SANDERSON ...Do you stop loving someone just because they betray you? I don't think so. That's what makes the ...
BRANDON SANDERSON I told him that you were simply showing me the ways of court. Kind of like an…older brother.” BRANDON SANDERSON We got there without being spotted. I pulled her in, then shut the door, pressing my back to it and ...
BRANDON SANDERSON The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The...
BRANDON SANDERSON Sometimes Vin imagined she was like the ash, or the wind, or the mist itself. A thing without though...
BRANDON SANDERSON Fantasy has had some problems with being too repetitive, in my opinion. I try to read what other peo...
BRANDON SANDERSON I died down at that chasm. Now you’ve got my vengeful spirit to deal with.
BRANDON SANDERSON We're not moments, Megan, you and me. We're events. You say you might not be the same person you wer...
BRANDON SANDERSON She slumped toward the ground, but I grabbed her and heaved her onto my shoulder, then ran down the ...
BRANDON SANDERSON In fact, the entire nature of this State seemed to highlight that political power was just an illusi...
BRANDON SANDERSON Back in my State, I'm very close to being able to control the weather. I'll be all-powerful, once I'...
BRANDON SANDERSON I’m good at doing things I’m not supposed to,” she said, then kicked the door open.
BRANDON SANDERSON XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest ...
BRANDON SANDERSON Well, best to remain vigilant. It’s when everything is calm that you need to be most alert.
BRANDON SANDERSON On the three-hundredth anniversary of my birth, I finally managed to conquer the world.
BRANDON SANDERSON Actually, [Wax] said, we came here because we needed someplace safe to think for a few hours."
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