Only on the edge of the grave can man conclude anything.


Henry Adams

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Man on Wire
LIVVY ANDERSON
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops. -Henry B. Adams.
HENRY B. ADAMS
It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain...
J.A. REDMERSKI
Georgie, stop trying to resurrect the shoes. They were never alive in the first place.
ILONA ANDREWS
Rumors said that if he got drunk enough, he sometimes got his jollies by stripping naked and scaring...
ILONA ANDREWS
Henry Adams, like most people, saw society in his own image.
BARBARA W. TUCHMAN
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of fact...
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Our standard rate. A doubloon a day."
It was generous. More than generous--some families would ...
ILONA ANDREWS
So, regarding that tidbit about your having a fertile imagination when it comes to private activitie...
ILONA ANDREWS
Even though he was inside the house, I could still hear Vlad’s sardonic mutter of “Where’s a t...
JEANIENE FROST
The heart is deceitful and wicked in everyone; the Holy Spirit changes even the most wretched sinner...
NORM TOMLINSON
Woe unto you if you have come to this world just to fear man,for man is nothing but ordinary dust wi...
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The power of man;Man does not only have the power to accomplish great & unbelievable things in life,...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I’m so hard right now my dick can cut diamonds.
- Andrew Parrish
J.A. REDMERSKI
My real mom died when I was born—hemorrhaged to death while giving birth to
me, which has nev...
DARYNDA JONES
I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS
But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, ...
THOMAS PYNCHON
You may fall down when you dance on the edge but edge is the source of all miracles and mystery.
AMIT RAY
Grandpa?" Declan raised his eyebrows.
"We keep him in the shed out back," Jack said helpfully. ...
ILONA ANDREWS
When you are doing all that you know to do

yet all hell is breaking out around you,
SANJO JENDAYI
I care," he said in a trembling voice. "I care so much that I do not know how to tell you without it...
AIMEE CARTER
During the dance of Giants, common man gets stomped on.
BEN OAK
The cynic says, One man can't do anything. I say, Only one man can do anything.
JOHN W. GARDNER
The cynic says, "One man can't do anything." I say, "Only one man can do anything."
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Success can be measured in terms of smiles and the speed of the initial "mad rush" to be the first i...
THE IMAGINEERS
I need you to get down there, open the stalls inside, and panic the horses.”
“ ‘Panic’?...
ILONA ANDREWS
If I have any desire at all, it is to show the brotherhood of man. This is a big statement and it so...
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The cynic says, 'One man can't do anything.' I say, 'Only one man can do anything.&#...
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Maybe we're standing like coins on the edge?"
Allie considered this. "Meaning?"
"Meaning, ...
NEAL SHUSTERMAN
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really ma...
ERIC HOFFER
I'm in the middle of the road, it seems vague of unclear way, of where I'm going but no matter what ...
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They stand uncertainly underneath immense skies, and everything about them is drowned.
JACK KEROUAC
I heard the Denver and Rio Grande locomotives howling off in to the mountains. I wanted to pursue my...
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I read my copy of On the Road and dug the scenery whizzing past. On the Road is a semi-autobiographi...
CORY DOCTOROW
One can only conclude that they (magistrates) want to interfere with the election campaign.
NICCOLO GHEDINI
Henry shuffled the jewelled insect back out of his pocket. It amber heart warmed light through the p...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.
ELAINE DUNDY
Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretche...
EMMA LAZARUS
The guys from the board are at a smaller bonfire near the tree line. They’re laughing. Talking shi...
KATIE MCGARRY
By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave?
FANNIE FLAGG
The only thing I can cook is Welsh rarebit.
IAN RUSH
It's said that science will dehumanize people and turn them into numbers. That's false, tragically f...
JACOB BRONOWSKI
The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams.
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Man has three friends on whose company he relies. First, wealth which goes with him only while good ...
THE TALMUD
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is mo...
P. J. O'ROURKE
...knew the futility of agonizing over why things had transpired as they had. What could have happen...
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...and I realized no matter what you do it’s bound to be a waste of time in the end so you might a...
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This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)

"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER
It wasn't that Henry was less of himself in English. He was less of himself out loud. His native lan...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Look at this,' Henry called from a few yards away. His voice was theatrically shocked. 'I have disco...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
She's around here somewhere. Check your pockets. She could be there. Sometimes she falls into these ...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
Belief is only the beginning... (Stephanie Adams Quote For GODDESSY.com)
STEPHANIE ADAMS
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we lau...
G. K. CHESTERTON
It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we lau...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON
Don't sacrifice the present and attempt to achieve the impossible- to completely correct the past......
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD
But the dust! And the clutter! My housewifely and scholarly instincts were equally offended.
ELIZABETH PETERS
But when have I ever needed saving?
"Are you a Wendy?" I whisper to myself, scanning the low ro...
TRACY WARD
He muttered something foul and then climbed the stairs, rapping twice on Timmie’s door.
“Ri...
JEANIENE FROST
anything else?
ANYTHING
I can only conclude the same geniuses who put the county budget together are now working as his camp...
DAVID AXELROD
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
Fixed mindset worries in the nest and the growth mindset dances on the edge.
AMIT RAY
Henry Ford believed the soul of a person is located in their last breath and so captured the last br...
ELIZABETH ALEXANDER
Oh, I don't know. I might grow on you."
She furrowed her pretty eyebrows. "Like a cancer?"
ILONA ANDREWS
Ask a man how much a dollar is worth, and he'll tell you, 'Almost nothing.' Try to take a dollar awa...
ILONA ANDREWS
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the ki...
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Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the ...
C. JOYBELL C.
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
At the end of the day, I'm a man.
DANIEL CORMIER
He had followed the trail left by a dead man. It was only now that he realized it might lead only to...
ANTHONY HOROWITZ
The presidency made John Adams an old man long before there was television. As early as the nation&#...
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Thy ignominy sleep with thee in the grave, But not remember'd in thy epitaph! -King Henry IV. Part ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
I can do anything. In GQ, I appeared as a man.
BOY GEORGE
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

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In the one branch he most needed
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Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, p...
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Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
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The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.
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Politics, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
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Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!
SAMUEL ADAMS
The Constitution shall never be construed... to prevent the people of the United States who are peac...
SAMUEL ADAMS
It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole teno...
SAMUEL ADAMS
We cannot make events. Our business is wisely to improve them.
SAMUEL ADAMS
I do not regret the part I have taken in a cause so just and interesting to mankind.
SAMUEL ADAMS
We think that the world is a solid, vivid place, full of shape and colour and solid objects like thi...
DOUGLAS ADAMS
You could tell that America was gearing up for war.
JACK ADAMS
We made air attacks on the Japanese anchorage, sinking and damaging several vessels. However, the Ja...
JACK ADAMS
We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close t...
JACK ADAMS
The Japanese invaded Tulagi, in the Solomon Islands, on May 4.
JACK ADAMS
Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert ...
JACK ADAMS
My observations of Japanese naval fighting men, their abilities and equipment led me to believe that...
JACK ADAMS
My assignment was in the communications office, where I typed out dispatches.
JACK ADAMS
I was assigned to the heavy cruiser Chicago.
JACK ADAMS
I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.
JACK ADAMS
Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
JACK ADAMS
Chicago's buoy was a couple of hundred yards astern of Arizona, and I was saddened to look at he...
JACK ADAMS
Lexington did launch its air group when a Japanese carrier was reported.
JACK ADAMS
The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbe...
JACK ADAMS
In basic training we had been told to watch out for Japanese spies.
JACK ADAMS
A chief petty officer taught me shorthand, which got me promoted to yeoman first class.
JACK ADAMS
I passed a typing test and became a member of the staff of Rear Adm. Newton.
JACK ADAMS
On December 5, 1941, Chicago led a task force built around the carrier Lexington to Midway Island, a...
JACK ADAMS
If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one...
JACK ADAMS
After the Battle of Midway there was a week in a rest camp at Pearl Harbor.
JACK ADAMS
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintai...
GERRY ADAMS
I think I look really weird with short hair. So I figured if I've got a mustache, I think it loo...
STEVEN ADAMS