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Take my handkerchief, Scarlett. Never, at any crisis of your life, have I known
you to have a handkerchief.


Margaret Mitchell

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The handkerchief dabbed at my forehead. 'Ouch! You'll have a fine-looking bruise tomorrow.'
'Th...
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DIANA GABALDON I drew a deep breath, trying to think of something to say, then pulled a handkerchief from my pocket...
DIANA GABALDON A four-handkerchief novella.
ANDREA CHAMBERS Alice hands Annawake a handkerchief. Young people never carry them, she's noticed. They haven't yet ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I do this for myself because I am my own fatherland, and my handkerchief is my flag.
REINHOLD MESSNER I sometimes shy away because I don't want to be too 'showy-offy' but the older I get I t...
JUDE LAW I was thinking, 'If I go bald, I might do something like Bret Michaels and have it all attached ...
JENNIFER COOLIDGE He had no little handkerchief to wipe his little nose.
REV. R. H. BARHAM You are the best, most loving, supportive family anyone could ever have," I said through my sobs. "I...
JASPER FFORDE Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief f...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A plain white handkerchief is the sure sign of a confident and elegant dresser.
ALAN FUSSER …As one puts a handkerchief before pent-in-breath-
no: as one presses it against a wound
RAINER MARIA RILKE I'd rather break stones on the king's highway than hem a handkerchief.
ANNE SULLIVAN We have a way out of this crisis. It's called the Mitchell plan,
COLIN POWELL A handkerchief can never be put in another pocket after it has been in one pocket. I don't walk ...
RACHEL MADDOW I never encountered any crisis in life, because I solved my problems before they turned into crisis.
AMIT KALANTRI Nothing, however, bemused the Indians more than the European habit of blowing their noses into a fin...
BILL BRYSON For I have known them all already, known them all—
Have known the evenings, mornings, afterno...
T.S. ELIOT He could not blow his nose without moralizing on the state of the handkerchief industry
CYRIL CONNOLLY Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory As doth the raven o'er the infected house, Boding to ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are."<...
J.R. WARD I didn't cry much after I was 35, but staggered stony-faced into middle age, a handkerchief stil...
HILARY MANTEL Don’t cry for me, Grace. I’m not worth it. (Julian)
Yes you are! (Grace)
You are my sa...
SHERRILYN KENYON Before computers, you'd start designing using shapes of cubes. Now I can start with something li...
GREG LYNN A cat determined not to be found can fold itself up like a pocket handkerchief if it wants to.
LOUIS CAMUTI My mind struggled to formulate a coherent though, any thought. I opened my mouth. "Your pajamas have...
ILONA ANDREWS Keep your handkerchief neat, and then you can be trusted with a bigger clothe. If you can’t manage...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never lo...
OSCAR WILDE In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ar...
FREDERICK BUECHNER In his holy flirtation with the world, God occasionally drops a handkerchief. These handkerchiefs ...
FREDERICK BUECHNER You can take my life, but you'll never break me.
So bring me your worst...
And I will def...
SHERRILYN KENYON Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends'...
HELEN FISHER Lust: Which senator once reached for a handkerchief in his pocket and proceeded to wipe his brow wit...
BRAD MELTZER Maybe that's what praying is all about. Maybe it's not just asking God to forgive us for bad things ...
SARAH DARER LITTMAN (What are your ghosts like?)
(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is al...
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER My books are friends that never fail me."

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MARGARET MITCHELL So you shun me? - you shut yourself up and grieve alone! I would rather you had come and upbraided m...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance.
EDUARDO CHILLIDA The genius of the (original) novel is they were the mother and father of what Atlanta was going to b...
PAT CONROY Myrtle," Harry said slowly, "how am I supposed to breathe?"

At this, Myrtle's eyes filled...
J.K. ROWLING Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.
GERMANY KENT A wife is a person who can look in the top drawer of a dresser and find a man's handkerchief that is...
UNKNOWN I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER For I have known them all already, known them all -
Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoo...
T.S. ELIOT Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You
take delight in vexing me. Y...
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JAMES NAISMITH Fairy-child, if only you should take my hand, I would show you things beyond your wildest dreams.”...
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JOE PERRY By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD i knew you
before
i met you.
i’ve known you my whole life.
NAYYIRAH WAHEED I will never let you know how much you hurt me
No, I will never tell you
The lasts few m...
HENRY ROLLINS You have your reasons to say what you have to say ; I have my reasons to say what I have to say.
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and ...
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI I twist like a flower
at the sound of your voice
But you leave the receiver
static ...
KAIT ROKOWSKI I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evenin...
JESSIE B. RITTENHOUSE I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE When the Russian delegate this summer indicated the Soviet Union's interest in sending medical equip...
KENZABURō ŌE He had seen bigger men than he with mummy's handkerchief clutched in on hand and a bloody dagger in ...
EOIN COLFER The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply ...
JAMES NAISMITH You try to be faithful
And sometimes you're cruel.
You are mine. Then, you leave.
Wit...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI Would it please you if I said your eyes were twin goldfish bowls filled to the brim with the cleares...
MARGARET MITCHELL Even jellyfish have a life. So, what's your excuse?
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Please make a list of every possession you consider essential to your life.

I take...
J.P. DELANEY By now you know: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, "Take me to your leaders."...
MARGARET ATWOOD HANDKERCHIEF, n. A small square of silk or linen, used in various ignoble offices about the face and...
AMBROSE BIERCE Sometimes life gets a little boring so you have to do something crazy to remember your alive!
NEIL OLSSON Had I known but yesterday what I know today,
I’d have taken out your two gray eyes
And p...
TAM LIN NEVILLE my dear

show me i am with you . other way
show me you are with me . not seeing
LITYMUNSHI Oh! that look of love!" continued he, between his teeth, as he bolted himself into his own private r...
ELIZABETH GASKELL I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE I'm a commercial writer, not an "author." Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
MICKEY SPILLANE Just two days in Manhattan and you find yourself looking for a place to wash your handkerchief after...
HERB CAEN I've always been drawn to dark stories. I enjoy reading Flannery O'Connor, Patricia Highsmit...
KARIN SLAUGHTER Do you have any advice for your readers?

Lead the life that’s yours instead of faking s...
SANDY NATHAN A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life:

1. Never put off to tomorrow wha...
THOMAS JEFFERSON Do I have permission to take control of you first? Just your bodies, not your minds."
"I've bee...
MARISSA MEYER If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you wou...
MARGARET THATCHER A coin, sleeve button, or a collar button dropped in a bedroom will hide itself and be hard to find....
MARK TWAIN I wish I could love people as you do, Molly!'
'Don't you?' said the other, in surprise.
'N...
ELIZABETH GASKELL Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh,...
MARK TWAIN Looking for Your Face

From the beginning of my life
I have been looking for your fac...
JALALUDDIN MEVLANA RUMI God, may you need to tell him off and say FU?

This will allow to be empowered and take yo...
DARRYL STEWART Song of myself
A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How cou...
WALT WHITMAN It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include...
SUSAN BARKER Franklin Roosevelt had to govern at a time of crisis. If you're going to make changes in the way...
PETE DU PONT If I never meet you
In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
JAMES JONES Things that will make you unstoppable;
Get the naysayers out of your life,
Take charge of ...
GERMANY KENT Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words.
SYED SHARUKH Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi...
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Learn to appreciate every moment of your life, stop thinking of the future too much, you have a choi...
AULIQ ICE I have learned in my life that my plans don't matter. It's God's plan.
TAYA KYLE Fernando glanced at the parrot. “And I see some things never change, Margaret. Your house always r...
JOSIE RIVIERA I have never deceived anyone, for I have never belonged to anyone. My independence was all my wealth...
CORA PEARL My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write t...
A. N. WILSON I have never voted in my life... I have always known and understood that the idiots are in a majorit...
LOUIS-FERDINAND CéLINE Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top -- or on the bottom. I guess I'm som...
RICHARD MILHOUS NIXON Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm some...
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MARGARET SPELLINGS We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share t...
MARGARET SPELLINGS I mean, one thing I know about change is we are not going to close the achievement gap without educa...
MARGARET SPELLINGS The long and short of it is, we need more rigor in all kinds of programs.
MARGARET SPELLINGS I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and...
MARGARET SPELLINGS What we know is the workplace is more demanding than ever before.
MARGARET SPELLINGS Well, one of them is annual assessment in grades 3-8. It's integral to the implementation of eve...
MARGARET SPELLINGS My understanding is that Kansas, Massachusetts, they've been more pioneers on the special educat...
MARGARET SPELLINGS And I think that we in America need to understand that many schools need improvement, and particular...
MARGARET SPELLINGS Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they ...
MARGARET ATWOOD My grandmothers are full of memories, smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, with veins rolling r...
MARGARET WALKER A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.
MARGARET ATWOOD If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schiz...
MARGARET ATWOOD If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.
MARGARET THATCHER The Eskimos had fifty-two names for snow because it was important to them: there ought to be as many...
MARGARET ATWOOD A world without nuclear weapons would be less stable and more dangerous for all of us.
MARGARET THATCHER I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good w...
MARGARET THATCHER An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.
MARGARET ATWOOD If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
MARGARET ATWOOD Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space be...
MARGARET ATWOOD I was once a graduate student in Victorian literature, and I believe as the Victorian novelists did,...
MARGARET ATWOOD When things are really dismal, you can laugh, or you can cave in completely.
MARGARET ATWOOD You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come wit...
MARGARET ATWOOD Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no yo...
MARGARET ATWOOD Every utopia - let's just stick with the literary ones - faces the same problem: What do you do ...
MARGARET ATWOOD So you are a vampire."

"I most certainly am not." He looked annoyed. "That's such a commo...
MARGARET STOHL Don't let the bastards grind you down.
MARGARET ATWOOD When you can't tell the difference between your own pleasure and your pain then you're an addict.
MARGARET ATWOOD Noise is a buffer, more effective than cubicles or booth walls.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN Harmony exists no less in difference than in likeness, if only the same key-note govern both parts.
MARGARET FULLER Women should be permitted to volunteer for non-combat service, they should not be accepted, voluntar...
MARGARET MEAD I have learned to love that which is meant to harm me, so that I can stand in the way of those who a...
MARGARET CHO At a time of multiple calamities in the world, we cannot allow the loss of essential antimicrobials,...
MARGARET CHAN Some people think that going on a caravan holiday is a slightly more upscale version of camping. Let...
MARGARET BECKETT Making a company fit to sell may be the only way to ensure you never need a buyer.
MARGARET HEFFERNAN The beginning of Canadian cultural nationalism was not 'Am I really that oppressed?' but ...
MARGARET ATWOOD People constantly requesting government intervention are casting their problems at society. And, you...
MARGARET THATCHER