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Oh, God — the lives people try to lead.
Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.


Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

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At the sixes and sevens of our mind
lead us oh Lord in Thy might
In the moment to decide o...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You carry the image of God in you; other people also have the same image of God in them. You got lov...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Oh God, I just kissed a vampire!"

Oh Gods, I just kissed a human!
SHERRILYN KENYON Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
ALEX IZYKOWSKI And the baby?" The words are anguished, breathless.
"The baby's fine, Mr. Grey."
"Oh, than...
E.L. JAMES A walk?" said Catharine.
"One foot in front of the other," said Newt, "through leaves, over bri...
KURT VONNEGUT JR. Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something.

Hazel Grace, tell me I hav...
JOHN GREEN Some people us language to describe the lives they lead, and other people use language to create the...
STEVE CHANDLER It's unbelievable. Oh, my God! I'm in complete shock. Oh, my God!
COURTNEY WHIDDEN I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God.
SUZANNE FINNAMORE Abby's my sister, Hudson. We're twins."

"Oh thank God! I mean thank God... that you... ha...
SARAH OCKLER Oh, my God. What is this.
FLORENCE MATHE This squirrel is inadequately afraid of humans! Squirrel, I am a threat to you! We are enemies! Plea...
JOHN GREEN Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!
FRANCIS ASBURY The world today is fast becoming one.Humanity is one, God is one and mankind are all part of one hum...
NAEEM ABDULLAH The audience that I try to reach are members of what I call the church alumni association. Now they ...
JOHN SHELBY SPONG Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?
O. J. SIMPSON Oh my God. Oh my God, J.P. is in love with me. And we blew up the school.
MEG CABOT Show us Thy ways oh Lord; teach us Thy ways to walk faithfully; teach us, O Lord, how to walk; lead ...
WILLIAM PENNINGTON What occurs to people when they read Kurt [Vonnegut] is that things are much more up for grabs than ...
MARK VONNEGUT Oh no. Oh God. I couldn't possibly be so stupid."

"Don't limit yourself. You can be anyth...
TESSA DARE I try to lead by example.
USAIN BOLT When I crawled in she started screaming. She was saying things like 'Oh my god, oh my god.
MARIELLA RUOCCO No matter how much I probe and prod
I cannot quite believe in God,
But, oh, I hope to God th...
E. Y. HARBURG We center our lives around our faith, and we try to put God first in our lives.
ALLYSON DARNELL Oh, God, it's wonderful to see the people that come out to help,
ERIC MASON Oh my God, people really think I'm Ross!
DAVID SCHWIMMER Oh, my God. What the heck did we do?
CRAIG COUNSELL Oh my God. What the heck did we do?
CRAIG COUNSELL Oh no. ... He said that? Oh, my God.
GLADYS BETTIS I always try to lead the clean life,
ROBERTO CLEMENTE Thank God we have the example of Martin Luther King, Jr. People need role models. They need to see e...
CORETTA SCOTT KING Oh, bro! Didn't go in. Try Again
AVANEESH DEVKOTA As a pastor, I have a deep desire to lead people to God and encourage people to pray, read the Bible...
ADAM HAMILTON 148She once said, "Just because you have talent doesn't mean you have to you have to do something wi...
NANETTE VONNEGUT Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob
OSCAR WILDE Oh, God! To have a billboard in Hollywood - you've made it.
RACHEL WARD A mere motivator sees potentials in people and tells them to take actions. A true leader sees the sa...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. -Kurt Vonnegut.
KURT VONNEGUT Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI God sometimes allows problems in the life of a church, to lead them to speak with representatives of...
SUNDAY ADELAJA She was very upset. She kept saying, 'Oh my God, oh my God, I can't believe it.
JAVIER RAMIREZ You lead with direction, and you try to lead by example. I try to be there when things are not good ...
ROGER PENSKE Oh precious Lord!
Oh precious Lord!
Thou know them all
The thought of my mind
An...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As Richard Pryor was to Eddie Murphy, that's what Kurt Vonnegut was to me.
CHRISTOPHER MOORE And one of them turned to me, ... and said, 'Oh my God! Eric Idle!'
MICHAEL PALIN Avery: "So I've been doing some thinking."
Cam: "Oh God."
Avery: "Shut up.
J. LYNN Oh, my God, Shirley,
TONI COLLETTE Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would ...
LANGSTON HUGHES Listen, God love everything you love - and a mess of stuff you don't. But more than anything else, G...
ALICE WALKER Oh God, you know I have no money, but you can make the people do for me, and you must make the peopl...
SOJOURNER TRUTH Oh my God, I don't know what to say. I just don't know what to say.
KYLE FENNER Oh, oh, oh... No... just they got me. Undercover??? and what more??
This and this??
DEYTH BANGER In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high ...
JESS WALTER Oh, my god!" I said, throwing my hands over my eyes and hurtling my body against the counter.
"...
DARYNDA JONES We needed to jump on them early and get that lead because we knew they were going to try and slow it...
ED BLACK I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!'...
CECILY VON ZIEGESAR Oh, my God, yes. We can't live without them -- the place will die. We are trying to attract younger ...
BOB PUSEY Oh, God, I would love to go and do a play someplace.
ERIKA SLEZAK Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
FRANK SINATRA When he saw the little girl's body, he was just destroyed, ... He was holding his head in his hands ...
COLIN TAYLOR They lead "still" lives, waiting. - Myrna Landers

Waiting for what? - Armand Gamache
LOUISE PENNY I was like, 'Oh, God'.
CALVIN KLEIN I thought, 'Oh my God,'
JEAN MCDONALD May God guide and lead us to a glorious future.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barrie...
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE We appreciate what they did for us. We just thank God that there's people out there who try to help ...
ELIZABETH WHITE Should have taken warning it's just
People mourning
Running, hiding, lost
You can't f...
CY CURNIN THE FIXX Oh, my God, he's trying to nip my elbow.
JOE CARUSO Oh my God, it's such a blessing to be out here.
DEJUAN GOODWIN Thanksgiving for previous blessings of God will lead to some new blessings of God.
IMAM HOSSEIN (PEACE BE UPON HIM) When we hear of people not surviving in this world it should make us more glad that we are alive .We...
GARY F EVANS... Charlotte: Oh my god! Vagina weights!
Samantha: Honey, my vagina waits for no man.
KIM CATTRALL Oh, my God! It's like a travesty of justice. He is basically profiting off the misery of working peo...
BHAIRAVI DESAI God didn’t give Moses ten fortune cookies in a to-go box. God didn’t lead the Israelites through...
GEOFFREY WOOD Oh. "So the best way to fight you is to strip naked and attack?"
His eyes flashed with a wicked...
ILONA ANDREWS Oh, he'll help us whether he wants to or not. I told the truth. I would not kill him. The death-curs...
NEIL GAIMAN That's what we expected the whole game. It's not like they were trying to protect a lead. They try t...
BRIAN YANDLE Oh, God I ruin your day…
DEYTH BANGER Oh my God, it was hell,
JAY WILLIAMS Oh, God,’ he whispers, reaching his hand behind my neck and bringing my lips to his. ‘Let’s le...
JANDY NELSON I always try to put a seed of hope into people's hearts. I'm not there to teach them doctrin...
JOEL OSTEEN you know we've all sinned a lot against science
so we really ought to be as available as an app...
FRANK O'HARA We have this habit of romanticizing the lives of writers. I remember when I was a kid, I was like, &...
JOHN GREEN Oh, most unhappy man,' he cried, 'try to be happy! You have red hair like your sister.'
My red ...
G.K. CHESTERTON God says to me with kind of a smile,
"Hey how would you like to be God awhile
And steer the ...
SHEL SILVERSTEIN Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
BARBRA STREISAND I'd be, like, oh my God, there's nothing to do.
HALLEY CLAY I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: Oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And ...
VOLTAIRE Don't let them fool ya,
Or even try to school ya! Oh, no!
We've got a mind of our own,
So g...
BOB MARLEY Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see...
LOUISA MAY ALCOTT I just did what I do, I guess. Try to keep the lead extended and get out of here.
ADAM MORRISON I try to pick up the girls as much as I can. I don't want them getting down on themselves. I just tr...
MALERIE HUBER what a shame we all became such fragile, broken things.
A memory remains just a tiny spark.
HAYLEY WILLIAMS It really is the year 2007. Which means I must be...

Oh my God. I'm twenty-eight.
SOPHIE KINSELLA Kurt went out to a lead and kept the lead throughout the match. He has been getting the big points a...
ANDY WEISS Happy days. Oh, my God, it's a fantastic day.
BRUCE RAMPELBERG She crouched with her hand out. What the hell was she doing…
"Here, kitty, kitty, kitty." ILONA ANDREWS Oh my God, she's fashion road-kill!
SEX AND THE CITY Oh my God, I love country music!
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I find the prospect nauseating....
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KURT VONNEGUT I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
KURT VONNEGUT Oh, sure, we have another world war coming, and another great depression, but where are the leaders ...
KURT VONNEGUT Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been...
KURT VONNEGUT If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely y...
KURT VONNEGUT There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.
KURT VONNEGUT I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
KURT VONNEGUT I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know...
KURT VONNEGUT If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.
KURT VONNEGUT I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.
KURT VONNEGUT Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudic...
KURT VONNEGUT What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thin...
KURT VONNEGUT Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn't always so ...
KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll h...
KURT VONNEGUT If somebody says, I love you, to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can an...
KURT VONNEGUT I get up at 7:30 and work four hours a day. Nine to twelve in the morning, five to six in the evenin...
KURT VONNEGUT Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical ...
KURT VONNEGUT What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and c...
KURT VONNEGUT The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowled...
KURT VONNEGUT Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any othe...
KURT VONNEGUT ... this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so inc...
KURT VONNEGUT The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much wi...
KURT VONNEGUT We are all what we pretend to be, but, we had better be very careful what we pretend.
KURT VONNEGUT I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a ver...
KURT VONNEGUT I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds o...
KURT VONNEGUT We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than befo...
KURT VONNEGUT People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order, so they'll have...
KURT VONNEGUT There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos inste...
KURT VONNEGUT There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
KURT VONNEGUT I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled Science Fiction and I would like out, par...
KURT VONNEGUT Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really are. Dancers show us hu...
KURT VONNEGUT There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to have without reser...
KURT VONNEGUT Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but...
KURT VONNEGUT It was a thunderingly beautiful experience -- voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.
KURT VONNEGUT We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrol...
KURT VONNEGUT Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.
KURT VONNEGUT Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this messag...
KURT VONNEGUT Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to rem...
KURT VONNEGUT I have no degree in biochemistry, neither do I have one in mechanical engineering, as the Army saw f...
KURT VONNEGUT True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the countr...
KURT VONNEGUT What troubles me most about my lovely country is that its children are seldom taught that American f...
KURT VONNEGUT Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since...
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