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My mother was a modern woman with a limited interest in religion. When the sun set and the fast of the Day of Atonement ended, she shot from the synagogue like a rocket to dance the Charleston.


Lionel Blue

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KELLY JONES You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY 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 love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite
STEPHEN CHBOSKY (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes...
JEAN SASSON You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE.
STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st...
STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Christ is the meritorious cause of the bestowing of those good gifts, faith and constancy unto marty...
JOHN OWEN Now, for what sins he made satisfaction, for them the justice of God is satisfied; which surely is n...
JOHN OWEN We, according to the Scriptures, plainly believe that Christ hath, by his righteousness, merited for...
JOHN OWEN And, therefore, seeing he doth not intercede and pray for every one, he did not die for every one.
JOHN OWEN Arminians pretend, very speciously, that Christ died for all men, yet, in effect, they make him die ...
JOHN OWEN I cannot conceive an intention in God that Christ should satisfy his justice for the sin of them tha...
JOHN OWEN I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib...
C. JOYBELL C. We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements.
LAURA DOCKRILL The death of Christ is their meritorious cause; the Spirit of God and his effectual grace their effi...
JOHN OWEN You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The scientific method gives us information by testing and repeating observable things so that we can...
LEWIS N. ROE Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you...
C. JOYBELL C. Secondly, the proper counsel and intention of God in sending his Son into the world to die was, that...
JOHN OWEN If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed.
A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet.
Even longer,' Pooh answered.”
...
A.A. MILNE Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there.
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STEPHEN CHBOSKY Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out...
ANNE FRANK Oh happy day! A day to make a hay! And when it is mid-day, think about the day! And when you think a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is a growing, or full constant light,
And his first minute, after noon, is night.
JOHN DONNE You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ...
C. JOYBELL C. My parents were practicing Jews. My mother grew up in an orthodox synagogue, and after my grandfathe...
JUDITH BUTLER the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The glory of the cross is bound up with the effectiveness of its accomplishment.
JOHN MURRAY I'm fucking the grave, I thought, I'm bringing the dead back to life...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
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JOHN MIDDLETON MURRY If you have read this far in the chronicle of the Baudelaire orphans - and I certainly hope you have...
LEMONY SNICKET Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha...
JEFFREY R. ANDERSON Abril é o mês mais cruel, gera lilases da terra morta, mistura a memória e o desejo, mistura raí...
JULIA GREGSON Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto
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C. JOYBELL C. Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty.
BRIAN JACQUES Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different.
JOHNNIE DENT JR. When looking for evidence that something exists, it's silly to start by assuming that it is impossib...
LEWIS N. ROE Using the scientific knowledge that we currently possess, we can take simple logical steps, backed b...
LEWIS N. ROE Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, w...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON your best men are
drunks and your worst men are
locking them
up,
your best men a...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI Trust In Every Words,
And You Will Believe In Your Works.
EIZZA ZAIZALNIZAM She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
DIANA WYNNE JONES The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING From the point of view of a spiritual life, it is not what you do that matters most, but the way in ...
THE MOTHER Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Farming is the oldest profession on earth
SOTONYE ANGA He said it was the kind of book you made your own.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY He had what he called just a small ration of tools:
A painted book.
A handful of pencils.<...
MARKUS ZUSAK Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
THE BOOK OF THE DEAD When a man takes one step toward God, God takes more steps toward that man than there are sands in t...
THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II

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LIONEL BLUE I was not comfortable worshipping another Jew.
LIONEL BLUE To change, to convert? Why bother?
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LIONEL BLUE On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless...
LIONEL BLUE Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball.
VIDA BLUE It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by re...
VIDA BLUE Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
VIDA BLUE I think I have already signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman, and child in the United Stat...
VIDA BLUE I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice t...
VIDA BLUE When I'm on the red carpet, most people say, 'Who the hell is that?' It's downright ...
CALLUM BLUE When you are without friends, the next best thing is an enemy who knows you well.
MIDNIGHT BLUE He wasn't exactly really excited to see him.
ANDY BLUE We looked a lot for the right dog. We wanted something that was kind of hardy.
ANDY BLUE He really wants to have another animal with him for warmth. It's really tough on him.
ANDY BLUE A lot of circuses and shows wants their animals hand-raised, but for us, it's not the most ideal cir...
ANDY BLUE I haven't seen every second baseman, but I find it hard to believe that anyone's better than Hudson,...
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BLUE JAYS I'd like to take Nook Logan , Joey Gathright , Carl Crawford and Chone Figgins , ... put them in tha...
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BLUE JAYS That is the thing, there is no exhale, ... Each week, it seems like there is a top-25 team that we a...
BLUE DEVILS You know, when you look at the final scoreboard, you might not see that, ... If you watched the game...
BLUE DEVILS Jason is hard to see behind the big linemen, and he makes you miss, ... He's got kind of a jittery r...
BLUE DEVILS We have no excuses. It was a good, old-fashioned butt-whipping,
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BLUE VALENTINE You can't grow a beard if you shave
BOB BLUE These kids really have to dig down now. They have to believe in themselves.
BLUE DEVILS I think it's important -- we know we're not as strong, but we can learn from them,
BLUE DEVILS You are really just trying to work on fundamentals and even if you are winning 9-0 sometimes, like l...
BLUE DEVILS I think that we came out and we really shocked some people, ... which is what our plan was - to come...
BLUE DEVILS It's always good to get the first one out of the way,
BLUE DEVILS We also knew if we didn't beat Newark, we didn't know what was going to happen.
BLUE DEVILS I called Coach Parks (now at Minster) and asked him his biggest memory from Zanesville-Newark,
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SKY BLUE Lack of depth, especially in the frontcourt
BLUE DEVILS Fang shreds alot.
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VIDA BLUE I wanted to curse. But then we had to go back out there.
GREG BLUE Let's save the world and use it again
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BLUE JAYS Our kids battled and battled, ... and you have to give a lot of credit to Lakeside to be able to com...
BLUE JAYS They have cost certainty, ... And they have money.
BLUE JAYS I'll take the high road, ... It means we're really close.
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BLUE JAYS They've been cutting people all year long, all across the board,
BLUE CROSS Crews are trying to protect the main computers and shut them down,
BLUE CROSS The unfettered use of the emergency room services without
some kind of clinical protocol, or ov...
BLUE CROSS We believe our reimbursement rates are fair for the services provided and we are disappointed that a...
BLUE CROSS During this transition period, Medicare beneficiaries will face a broad array of new benefit choices...
BLUE CROSS [In] The Blues, ... by government officials, doctors, hospital people, labor leaders, business execu...
BLUE CROSS or strongly influenced purchase decisions.
BLUE BOOK We're probably not going to see any dip in prices or return to 'normal,' ... People are realizing th...
BLUE BOOK At this time, have been unable to arrive at a probable cause of this sighting. The three observers s...
BLUE BOOK You think too much and I bet it kills the magic," he says simply. "Some things are just instinct and...
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«Lond...
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GREG BLUE You look how you play. You look good, you play good.
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GEORGE BLUE I would want another two weeks to consider it carefully.
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JACKIE BLUE But I think she?s a better shooter than I was as a freshman.
NIKKI BLUE We were prepared for their 1-3-1 trap. We watched a lot of film and knew all the nooks and crannies.
TREY BLUE We reject outright that we discriminate on the basis of age,
VIRGIN BLUE There are more important things in life than winning or losing a game.
LIONEL MESSI In football as in watchmaking, talent and elegance mean nothing without rigour and precision.
LIONEL MESSI Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.
LIONEL TRILLING Being named among the best at something is special and beautiful. But if there are no titles, nothin...
LIONEL MESSI I'm lucky to be part of a team who help to make me look good, and they deserve as much of the cr...
LIONEL MESSI Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him...
LIONEL TRILLING Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more th...
LIONEL TRILLING One should be just as careful about lying as about telling the truth.
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LIONEL TRILLING The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.
LIONEL TRILLING Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.
LIONEL TRILLING A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.
LIONEL STRACHEY We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of b...
LIONEL TRILLING Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary inte...
LIONEL TRILLING The function of literature, through all its mutations, has been to make us aware of the particularit...
LIONEL TRILLING Literature is the human activity that make the fullest and most precise account of variousness, poss...
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LIONEL BARBER You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.
LIONEL MESSI The day you think there is no improvements to be made is a sad one for any player.
LIONEL MESSI Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.
LIONEL HAMPTON Today I am the happiest man in the world, my son was born and thanks to God for this gift.
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LIONEL MESSI The post-war American newsroom resembled a vast factory churning out multiple editions through the n...
LIONEL BARBER Music was our wife, and we loved her. And we stayed with her, and we clothed her, and we put diamond...
LIONEL HAMPTON I find the greatest songs in the world come out of pain, and I don't like it! Here's what it...
LIONEL RICHIE Our U.S. audience is composed of globally-minded Americans, an elite category, the ones who do have ...
LIONEL BARBER I would like to see capital punishment suppressed in all democracies.
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LIONEL SOSA Be proud of your Latino culture and do the best work you can do, and you will always succeed.
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LIONEL MESSI I've never stopped being Argentine, and I've never wanted to. I feel very proud of being Arg...
LIONEL MESSI It is possible that the contemplation of cruelty will not make us humane but cruel; that the reitera...
LIONEL TRILLING For my part, I try to do my bit to make people's lives more bearable, in particular children acr...
LIONEL MESSI Working with Benny was important for me and for black musicians in general.
LIONEL HAMPTON Money is not a motivating factor. Money doesn't thrill me or make me play better because there a...
LIONEL MESSI I prefer to win titles with the team ahead of individual awards or scoring more goals than anyone el...
LIONEL MESSI A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whet...
LIONEL SHRIVER Isn't it funny how ignorance is the source of strength of so many?
LIONEL SUGGS Kids will keep it real. If I've ever had in my life a great anchor, it's them. They get in y...
LIONEL RICHIE As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.
LIONEL BARBER You have to show up in the World Cup, and in the World Cup anything can happen.
LIONEL MESSI Peace is a flawed logic. They believe that communication and understanding will create peace. Howeve...
LIONEL SUGGS I feel honored to have been a part of that dramatic change.
LIONEL HAMPTON Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.
LIONEL HAMPTON You cannot allow your desire to be a winner to be diminished by achieving success before and I belie...
LIONEL MESSI The poet... may be used as a barometer, but let us not forget that he is also part of the weather.
LIONEL TRILLING My windows open to the autumn night, In vain I watched for sleep to visit me, How should sleep dul...
LIONEL JOHNSON Madison's height took us out early in the game but we never quit. We continued to play our game. It ...
LIONEL ANDERSON Kids walking to school are getting offered rides, players are getting let in line at the cafeteria, ...
LIONEL ANDERSON We're all very much excited. We had a chance last year, but we got shot down before the Top 28. The ...
LIONEL ANDERSON I've got just bits and pieces on Madison. But we've never worried about that before, you know, about...
LIONEL ANDERSON This is our business. It is what we do.
LIONEL ANDERSON The last two years it has been working for us.
LIONEL ANDERSON Business is very good right now.
LIONEL ANDERSON I thought we did a good job stopping their perimeter shooting. Overall, we did a good job defensivel...
LIONEL ANDERSON We don't get rattled. We never get rattled. Coming into the game we knew that St. James was a good-s...
LIONEL ANDERSON There were always plenty of newspapers in the house. 'The Times', 'Guardian', 'D...
LIONEL BARBER Thanks to social media such as Facebook and Twitter, a far wider range of people take part in gather...
LIONEL BARBER Lionel Richie, love song, OK, thank you very much, good-bye. And all of a sudden I realized that, in...
LIONEL RICHIE It's quite interesting that in my growing up I had several influences. We had gospel music on ca...
LIONEL RICHIE I just like people. I'll hold a conversation at a gas station. It's not about the fame and t...
LIONEL RICHIE Like I've said many times before, I'm always more likely to remember goals for their importa...
LIONEL MESSI The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favou...
LIONEL MESSI All artists are egotistical maniacs with inferiority complexes.
LIONEL RICHIE Educating a son I should allow him no fairy tales and only a very few novels. This is to prevent him...
LIONEL TRILLING Anger does not solve problems - anger only makes things worse. I go by the old saying, 'Don'...
LIONEL SOSA Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life wi...
LIONEL SHRIVER The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
LIONEL SHRIVER Okay, it's like this. You wake up, you watch TV, and you get in the car and you listen to the radio....
LIONEL SHRIVER I realize it's commonplace for parents to say to their child sternly, 'I love you, but I don't alway...
LIONEL SHRIVER