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If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN 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... If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be... GARY F EVANS... 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... 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That's what I do. I speak without thinking, I act without knowing. I d... CANDACE BUSHNELL This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people. JOHN WYCLIFFE Sometimes he did not know if he slept or just thought about sleep. MARK STRAND The young gentlemen who came calling seemed especially puzzling. They sat in their velvet shirts and... PATRICIA A. MCKILLIP Then there is the other secret. There isn't any symbolysm [sic]. The sea is the sea. The old man is ... ERNEST HEMINGWAY Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?... ERNEST HEMINGWAY I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... FLANNERY O'CONNOR Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... GAUTAMA BUDDHA The real thing that keeps men and women apart, is fear. Women blame men and men blame women, but the... C. JOYBELL C. She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer ... ANGELA CARTER The profound ability to use aural and written language has enabled our species to collectively explo... KATHERINE VUCICEVIC No, sweet one. See, my precious: if we has it, then we can escape, even from Him, eh? Perhaps we gro... J.R.R. TOLKIEN People in life should not judge other people whoever they are whatever they do there religion or cre... GARY F EVANS... Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON We still should have enough time to reach Rome.” Hazel scowled. “When you say should hav... RICK RIORDAN This is Buford,” Leo announced. “You name your furniture?” Frank asked. RICK RIORDAN He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... RICK RIORDAN Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN Reyna looked at Percy without much hope. “You do have a plan?” Percy wanted to step ... RICK RIORDAN Percy blinked. “So your brother is a winged horse. But you’re also my half brother, which means ... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN 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... 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QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr... QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first. QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g... QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as... QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all the best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters... QUEEN ELIZABETH II No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o... QUEEN ELIZABETH II At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the ... RICK RIORDAN We know that the most fundamental responsibility of our Federal Government is to ensure the safety o... VITO FOSSELLA We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want... PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world. PRINCESS DIANA You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ... CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you... 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RACHAEL ACKERMAN That's Lauren Spillers. She's non-stop hustle up and down the court. RACHAEL ACKERMAN We are clearly in a consolidation, whether we are in a correction or not remains to be seen, ALAN ACKERMAN Enron's quick collapse touched off more aggressiveness by regulators and prompted them to dig more d... ALAN ACKERMAN The world is looking for lower interest rates. Clearly, the psychology world-wide remains highly ner... ALAN ACKERMAN We tend to think of heroes only in terms of violent combat, whether it's against enemies or a na... DIANE ACKERMAN Nature is more like a seesaw than a crystal, a never-ending conga line of bold moves and corrections... DIANE ACKERMAN Even if a trading halt were put in, it might be 'something to do about nothing,' ... This is an orde... ALAN ACKERMAN This is a senior-heavy team that has high expectations. BRAD ACKERMAN This market is somewhat difficult to call. ALAN ACKERMAN “The most beautiful creations are from the blueprints of the mind.” JACK ACKERMAN [The U.S. Treasury auction schedule, which continues Wednesday with the sale of five-year notes,] is... ALAN ACKERMAN It is quite good. I looked at it and liked it and even bought a copy. BILL ACKERMAN Enron's quick collapse touched off more aggressiveness by regulators and prompted them to dig more d... ALAN ACKERMAN It's not necessarily a sign of good things to come. But it's a rally from a deeply oversold conditio... ALAN ACKERMAN With a market as nasty and negative as it is at the moment, there's little room for error. The Nasda... ALAN ACKERMAN There are 200 to 300 rabbits out there, and every female we are picking up is pregnant. SANDI ACKERMAN I don't want to get to the end of my life and find i have just lived the length of it, i want to hav... DIANE ACKERMAN The offensive execution was much better, we were sharper and more focused. ROLLIE ACKERMAN We had some good looks, we just didn't hit them tonight. ROLLIE ACKERMAN They did a nice job of taking us out of our offense. In the end we just came up a little short. ROLLIE ACKERMAN But we had a number of other athletes who specialized. Our boys' cross country team qualified for st... ROLLIE ACKERMAN When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors... DIANE ACKERMAN The simple, stupefying truth that, as a woman, I am a minute ocean, in the dark tropic of whose womb... DIANE ACKERMAN I've always found it best to have a routine. I go to my study at the same time every day and cli... DIANE ACKERMAN We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worshi... DIANE ACKERMAN Apache has outperformed the market. It's up 9.8 percent so far this year, ... Apache is a driller th... ALAN ACKERMAN