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Maybe everything we do is meaningless. But we have to try, don't we? We have to go on looking for justice... and settling for revenge.


Joan D. Vinge

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Everything has been wipe out from the techno...
DEYTH BANGER It's the imperfections that make things beautiful
JENNY HAN Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an...
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny!
ABHISHEK KUMAR If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS... People are attracted to who we are more than what we do.
LORRIN L. LEE The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN And when I saw you kissing that girl
My heart, it shattered and my eyes, they watered
And ...
KATE NASH Now we have one chance in some case, as in this body but in other body we will have + one because we...
DEYTH BANGER We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
CRAIG GROESCHEL The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL And why love things you were destined to lose? Why let yourself feel things if the feelings were doo...
GARTH RISK HALLBERG What you call dirty and muddy place, is what a pig calls his palace
SOTONYE ANGA See the world as it is, not as you wish it would be
E. LOCKHART It's a lie to think that you are not good enough. It's a lie to think that you are not beautiful. It...
DISON ARNIBAL Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than wh...
C.S. LEWIS I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL I don't know where to go. I don't know what comes now."
"Don't worry," Will said. "We'll figur...
LAUREN OLIVER To say to that you will never forget ,is always a sincere and an honest way to express ones self to ...
GARY F EVANS... In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id...
GARY F EVANS... When we die our deeds shall be left for humanity to judge & our flesh shall become dust for humanity...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M The island is ours. Here, in some way, we are young forever.
E.LOCKHART اگر میخواهید جایی زندگی کنید که مردمش از موش ها نمیترسن...
EMILY LOCKHART You hate cake doughnuts."
"Of course," says Mirren. "But we didn't get the cake, we got glazed ...
E.LOCKHART There are parallel universes in which different events have happened to the same people. An alternat...
E. LOCKHEART There is not even a scrabble word for how bad I feel.
E. LOCKHEART He was contemplation and enthusiasm. Ambition and strong coffee.
E. LOCKHART Johnny, he is bounce, effort, and snark.
Mirren, she is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
Gat, h...
E.LOCKHART Everything doesn't seem like anything when you love someone. Especially when you're young.
E. LOCKHART Life is an endless search. We keep searching and finding and searching
SOTONYE ANGA We dont know what were going to go home to, ... If we dont have anything anymore, Im not sure I want...
IAN WILLIAMSON I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ...
RALPH WALDO EMERSON When you tell me your story or about yourself I understand who you are and are able to share who I a...
BRENT M. JONES She is sugar, curiosity, and rain.
E. LOCKHART Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
CRAIG GROESCHEL We want justice for her, revenge is sweet.
MAGGIE COSTER If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... Could it be possible for humanity to put their differences aside for the survival of our species, un...
GARY F EVANS... Wishing on that far away star, how far removed we truly are.
MICHAEL DE CHâTILLON Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads.
ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One
DANIEL GILMAN We each can accomplish so much in this world. There is no room for boredom
ROXE Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... You either have the feeling or you don’t.
DANIEL HANDLER We are this fucking stick in the end...
DEYTH BANGER Sisi wote ni wanafunzi.
ENOCK MAREGESI Created visions of experiencing unreality.
VICDO I know what you might be thinking here on your own, but those thoughts won’t last for ever,’ I s...
SARAH MOORE FITZGERALD You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
CRAIG GROESCHEL When someone says we need to talk, what he or she usually means is you will listen. An...
JAMES ANDERSON The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
CRAIG GROESCHEL The future belongs to all who, refusing to look back at the past move ahead with the clock as it tic...
ODO SIMON AGBO 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give...
JAMES C. DOBSON Who cares what are you eating??
Who cares where are you?
Who cares what are you posting??<...
DEYTH BANGER We have fought for social justice. We have fought for economic justice. We have fought for environme...
BARBARA BOXER we
sat there
smoking
cigarettes
at
5
in the morning.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI An Error is like Salt and A 'Sincere' Apology is like Water and a ''Repeated Same Error'' is like a ...
ANUROOP TYAGI We should stop trying to find differences between one another, and focus on our similarities.
BEN OAK Everything we do we're going to try to do it together. We obviously don't have any All-Americans on ...
LYNDSEY MEDDERS So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You have the right to free speech. We, the corporate controlled government, have the right to ignore...
STEVEN MAGEE We cannot wish for that we know not.
VOLTAIRE Empathy is a bridge. Our sufferings connect us. Let pain make you softer.
AKIROQ BROST There's no "i" in we, but it is in egoic. When you think about we instead of me, then and only then ...
CELESTINE L. GRAY We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mist...
VERONICA ROSSI We live in relative world with relatives.
DEYTH BANGER The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
CHINESE PROVERB For years I thought we were on the same page...then I discovered we were NOT even in the same book.....
KJFORCE We are all joined in a circle of stories.
LINDA JOY MYERS There is nothing that makes us feel so good as the idea that someone else is an evildoer.
ROBERT LYND Normally, we're never satisfied.
CRAIG GROESCHEL Love is purpose and we all have love so we all have a purpose
PARKER LOUIS SEELY All my life I have overheard, all my life I have listened to what people will let slip when they thi...
PATRICIA LOCKWOOD Never eat anything bigger than your ass.
E. LOCKHART We are Sinclairs. Beautiful. Privileged. Damaged. Liar. We live, least in the summertime, on a priva...
E. LOCKHART Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER Come on... come on... I am waiting for answer...
...

Silence doesn't make it... bet...
DEYTH BANGER Our gods are here, below, with us---in the office, the kitchen, the workshop, the toilet; the gods h...
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE Everything will probably never be OK. But we have to try for it.
VLADIMIR PUTIN We do not choose to be born...We do not--most of us, choose to die, or the times or conditions of ou...
JOSEPH EPSTEIN When We have Patience in our minds and Love in our hearts, Nothing appears to be impossible or unrea...
PHILIP T.M When we are kind and forgiving, we will be forgiven.
DEBASISH MRIDHA We try to apportion time for our leisure travelers, because we still have people trying to go on vac...
TED LAWSON We try to apportion time for our leisure travelers, because we still have people trying to go on vac...
TED LAWSON But men often mistake killing and revenge for justice. They seldom have the stomach for justice.
ROBERT JORDAN So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know, maybe we're always looking for the right place, maybe it's within reach, but
we d...
UMBERTO ECO Justice is such a fine thing that we cannot pay too dearly for it.
ALAIN RENE LE SAGE We are transitioning rapidly from a traditional manufacturing and agricultural society to a competit...
MICHAEL HARRIS Why do I write? Out of fear. Out of fear that the memory of the people I write about might go lost. ...
FABRIZIO DE ANDRé We'd be running in circles for the next 10 years if we tried to do everything that people have sugge...
CRAIG CARPER You should be convinced of the authenticity of what you have, but you must also be humble enough to ...
MITCH ALBOM Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories
BEN OAK We just talked about going out there and playing. It will be nice to get revenge for the girls, but ...
DEAUNDRE MUHAMMAD We had to have this game. Lose [on Tuesday], and that D-C game becomes meaningless. So this win was ...
MIKE STEIB Sometimes we have to let go someone we love, not because we dont care about them anymore, because we...
THE QUIET GIRL

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JOAN SMITH Jesus
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JOAN RIVERS There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.
JOAN RIVERS Can we talk?
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JOAN DIDION The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soo...
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JOAN DIDION The Universe knows itself and expands itself through me.
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He approached the fi...
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JOAN DIDION If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?
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JOAN CUSACK We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate...
JOAN DIDION I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
JOAN RIVERS Other people will call me a rebel, but I just feel like I'm living my life and doing what I want...
JOAN JETT I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as so...
JOAN CUSACK I'm Jewish. I don't work out. If God had wanted us to bend over, He would have put diamonds ...
JOAN RIVERS I take parenting incredibly seriously. I want to be there for my kids and help them navigate the wor...
JOAN CUSACK Life is strong and fragile. It's a paradox... It's both things, like quantum physics: It'...
JOAN JETT My personal style is bipolar. Sometimes I feel like dressing in a boyish leather jacket; other times...
JOAN SMALLS A positive attitude is something everyone can work on, and everyone can learn how to employ it.
JOAN LUNDEN The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.
JOAN COLLINS It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism ...
JOAN DIDION I had a friend who was a plastic surgeon, so he would do little things. I never had, like, a full th...
JOAN RIVERS Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wi...
JOAN COLLINS