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Now and then / there is a person born / who is so unlucky / that he runs into accidents/ which started out to happen / to somebody else


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now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out ...
DON MARQUIS So unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else.
DON MARQUIS Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD I believe that there is a Matrix and... to be more accurate I am in the Pornography Matrix.
DEYTH BANGER Truth metastasized into lurid fantasy.
F. MULDER I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. ...
CARL BARKS The English language started out as a distortion in my life, but nothing remains the same, and so th...
JAMAICA KINCAID I always felt myself to be an unlucky person like Donald, who is a victim of so many circumstances. ...
CARL BARKS Our biggest concern is what happens if somebody runs into the rail and destroys it. It's just an acc...
DEBRA MARTIN What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
CRAIG GROESCHEL Accidents don't happen to people who take accidents as a personal insult.
MARIO PUZO My time has is here, my mission has failed, but in spite of my limitations i will never loose faith....
RYAN LEONARD The farm is a base of operations–a stronghold. You can withdraw into yourself there. Solitude for ...
ROBERT FROST You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
CRAIG GROESCHEL When living is too sweet and swanky, it may be very hard to appreciate the simplest things in life. ...
ERIK PEVERNAGIE Everybody looked at (Ito) and said invincible. Then slowly during that two-week period of time befor...
SCOTT HAMILTON A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out in...
JOSEPH CONRAD When carrying the burden of problems and stress that life seems to endlessly hurtle towards us. We g...
GARY F EVANS... To have hope in an age where hope is very scarce and hurt, jealousy and pain are more prominent is a...
GARY F EVANS... Love is just such a crucial, wonderful thing, and if you are lucky enough to find somebody who genui...
RANDALL KENNEDY Paolo showed that he can put in a performance even when he starts the game and he is another option....
FELIX MAGATH There was a definite Jekyll-and-Hyde effect there, ... and when he started to get into the meth, tha...
JOSEPH CARROLL The trick to making a story matter is that every now and then, somebody you care about has to go. If...
DAVID SIMON There's room for everybody on the planet to be creative and conscious if you are your own person. If...
TORI AMOS To err is human. To blame someone else is politics.
HUBERT H. HUMPHREY How dare a scripture tell someone that the person is born sinful and requires a messiah to save him ...
ABHIJIT NASKAR There's something else besides the badge, there's a real person that's behind that. Somebody who car...
DENNIS BROWN To love is to act.
VICTOR HUGO War is no solution to peace.
BEN OAK I know now: what is is all that matters. Not the thing you know is meant to be, not what could be, n...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS When our lips parted, he sighed. “I love those eyes, angel. When they look at me, I feel like anyt...
BIJOU HUNTER You're going to have to find out where you want to go. And then you've got to start going there.
J.D. SALINGER There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled...
BALTASAR GRACIAN Brian can cover so much of the field, ... He's very calm out there. He plays hard, but he doesn't ha...
NICK RIMANDO There is a statistic I heard a number of years ago: if you know somebody who is 85 years old, that p...
DAN BROWN I'm so unlucky that if I was to fall into a barrel of nipples I'd come out sucking my thumb.
FREDDIE STARR Accidents happen. That's what everyone says. But in a quantum universe there are no such things as a...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI There is a story, there is a scene which you always miss and you never pay attention at it... (The R...
DEYTH BANGER I've never seen that happen before. I've seen it in a pursuit, but not two separate accidents. The t...
JEFF HARPER I just feel that if somebody happened to fancy somebody else, well, then, I should be a friend that ...
ANDREA CORR For every person who has a horrible story about how their market basket of goods went soaring, there...
MICHAEL SWANSON You know," Daddy said, "it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it'...
FLANNERY O'CONNOR Each person is born to one possession which out values all his others - his last breath
MARK TWAIN No matter how rich a person may be, he is poor to somebody & no matter how poor a person may be, he ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) First thing is, he is a great kid. He worked so hard in the offseason to get that thing back and he ...
ANDY REID There is nothing moral about punishing somebody for insulting somebody else. It's the victim who all...
IZZY KALMAN blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born.
JOSé SARAMAGO That's his choice of words. I'm a little shocked ... To hear it from somebody else telling me that s...
TREVOR ARIZA Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
CASEY (CHARLES DILLON) STENGEL Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.
CASEY STENGEL Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
J.R. RIM What's it like then?" asked Old Bailey. "Being dead?"
The marquis sighed. And then he twisted ...
NEIL GAIMAN Somebody ripped their pants open at my wedding, dipping my mother. My mother is not a lady who throw...
MELISSA MCCARTHY That's the thing with dementia. If you're with somebody who has a serious illness, you can u...
JUDY PARFITT Unfortunately, we're out there too and being involved in as many accidents as anyone else.
ANNETTE PONCE I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn&...
DANIEL CORMIER Lots of folks out there just want somebody to talk to, somebody who is going to listen.
AMY STEVENS All my life, I ain't understand shit about what was going on. A thing just happen, then something el...
WINSTON GROOM I've found the best way to revise your own work is to pretend that somebody else wrote it and then t...
DON ROFF Reject the religious labels and accept the only label that matters “Born Again
JOHN M SHEEHAN Last Saturday he set out to fix a screen upstairs. He went to the basement to get some nails. Downst...
THOMAS E. BROWN Everybody knows everybody and to think that there's somebody next door who would do something like t...
LIZ ZWICKER He went into hiding, which is a good thing. You don't want to confront somebody (who could) possibly...
TED WHITE There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebod...
CULLEN HIGHTOWER TAKE A STAND RIGHT NOW! BECAUSE tomorrow IS THE ONLY DAY OF THE WEEK THAT NEVER COMES!!
PHILIP T. M. Would you think of somebody who you adore, who’s no longer there? A beloved grandmother, a lover �...
BENJAMIN ZANDER Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.
TATIANA MASLANY I feel like, if it's supposed to happen, then it'll happen. God will send me somebody special, whene...
KELLY ROWLAND I was brought up not to be selfish or self-centered. So if you play somebody who isn't so lovabl...
JULIE KAVNER Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.
SAMUEL BUTLER This was a citizen who had gone to render aid to somebody who needed help. It cost him his life. We ...
EVERETT CLENDENIN The idea of a spiritual heart transplant is a vivid image to me; once you have the heart of somebody...
MAX LUCADO There are people who make things happen, there are people who watch things happen, and there are peo...
JAMES A. LOVELL runs counter to what he is now asserting.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN Even if such an incident had taken place, it doesn't mean anything. Any diplomat in any mission migh...
MOHAMED ATTA In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding h...
THOMAS MERTON In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ''finding...
THOMAS MERTON I know a girl who cries when she practices violin because each note sounds so pure it just cuts into...
CONOR OBERST You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...
JEAN KERR It is inconceivable that even the gang who runs Russia would be willing to take on war, but one alwa...
JAMES FORRESTAL By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usual...
LEV GROSSMAN together we're trying to make a wish come true that somebody else wasn't going to let happen.
KATHY VALENTINE 37. It is better to be single and unhappy than unhappily married.
JAMES C. DOBSON He was born a politician.
No, Ursula thought, he was born a baby, like everyone else. And this ...
KATE ATKINSON What I do is put my characters into situations that are so precarious there is no way to get out. An...
SIDNEY SHELDON There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ...
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and e...
ERICH FROMM There is hardly any activity, any enterprise, which is started out with such tremendous hopes and ex...
ERICH FROMM We didn't show a lot of courage and heart out there tonight -- and we need to find somebody who's go...
JOE MUNIZ The trick is not to become somebody else. You become somebody else when you're in front of a cam...
ERNEST BORGNINE That happens and somebody else needed to step up, and unfortunately that didn't happen. Shooters hav...
BARRY JOHNSON A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
CARTER GLASS if it doesn't come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don't do it.
unless it...
CHARLES BUKOWSKI In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'find...
THOMAS MERTON If somebody is going to try to paste a person's view on epistemology to me, then give me Thomas ...
PAUL RYAN My life is so filled, so if I accept acting work now, it means I have to let somebody else do the jo...
JAMIE LEE CURTIS In legal parlance, that is called 'the rational person test,' ... That's where somebody else says, '...
RICHARD JOHN NEUHAUS Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an ext...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I'm seeing a guy now who has nothing to do with films. It's so much nicer with somebody who ...
KERRY CONDON When I am with you, there is nowhere else I'd rather be. And I am a person who always wants to be so...
DAVID LEVITHAN

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MARQUIS DE LAFAYETTE Do not calculate what I have done, for I shall accept no recompense. Calculate the public advantage,...
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MARQUIS DE SADE Men sometimes feel injured by praise because it assigns a limit to their merit; few people are modes...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Of all pleasures the fruit of labor is the sweetest.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES All grand thoughts come from the heart.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Clarity is the counterbalance of profound thoughts.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Great thoughts always come from the heart.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Give help rather than advice.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Strength lies not in defence but in attack.
MARQUIS DE ACERBA Everyone is born sincere and die deceivers.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The art of pleasing is the art of deception.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more ...
MARQUIS DE SADE The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised...
MARQUIS DE SADE Nations have always good reasons for being what they are, and the best of all is that they cannot be...
MARQUIS DE CUSTINE The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
MARQUIS DE SADE As the mind learns to understand more complicated combinations of ideas, simpler formulae soon reduc...
MARQUIS DE CONDORCET The law cannot equalize mankind in spite of nature.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The ultimate triumph of philosophy would be to cast light upon the mysterious ways in which Providen...
MARQUIS DE SADE Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. ...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The idle always have a mind to do something.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Those laws, being forged for universal application, are in perpetual conflict with personal interest...
MARQUIS DE SADE Wolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak...
MARQUIS DE SADE There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise the...
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other,...
MARQUIS DE SADE Wicked people are always surprised to find ability in those that are good.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but...
MARQUIS DE SADE All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with ...
MARQUIS DE SADE It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues use...
MARQUIS DE SADE How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot t...
MARQUIS DE SADE Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strengt...
MARQUIS DE SADE Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
MARQUIS DE SADE If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once...
MARQUIS DE SADE The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
MARQUIS DE SADE We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES We are almost always guilty of the hate we encounter.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES Hope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is be...
MARQUIS DE SADE Evil is a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed bef...
MARQUIS DE SADE Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adult...
MARQUIS DE SADE Emotions have taught mankind to reason.
MARQUIS DE VAUVENARGUES The mechanism that directs government cannot be virtuous, because it is impossible to thwart every c...
MARQUIS DE SADE Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call...
MARQUIS DE SADE Never may an act of possession be exercised upon a free being; the exclusive possession of a woman i...
MARQUIS DE SADE Every principle is a judgment, every judgment the outcome of experience, and experience is only acqu...
MARQUIS DE SADE Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed th...
MARQUIS DE SADE I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none oth...
MARQUIS DE SADE So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to...
MARQUIS DE SADE Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withsta...
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