That would be Axelroot all over, to turn up with an extra wife or two claiming that's how they do it here. Maybe he's been in Africa so long he's forgotten that we Christians have our own system of marriage, and it's called Monotony.
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EVAN DAVIS All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w... JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It... COLSON WHITEHEAD This is their dream so maybe they go one less place or maybe do one less thing they are still going ... MATT HOWARD I wish people could have seen what they called our mansion. They would have been so disappointed, be... TAMMY FAYE BAKKER No one will remember the kick in the balls if hes bleeding everywhere... NATHAN ELMO MELO A tour of the Mexico City of Diego Rivera and Frieda Kahlo led by Barbara Kingsolver would be nice. ... CATHY MARIE BUCHANAN why is it so hard to express how we feel about our family and friends, no matter what we say or do s... MIKE GRIST (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve... JAMES HETFIELD With a traditional human resources system, we would work with a company, select the product, customi... KRIS GOPALAKRISHNAN What we're living on is a system that has been built over 100 years. It certainly is not up to the c... GARY BARDINI [That could be the situation throughout the game, but Razorbacks defensive backs coach Bobby Allen s... BOBBY ALLEN My brother went to New Orleans when he was 19, ... Hes 72 now. BARBARA UPTON Would to God we were all Christians who profess to be Christians, and that we lived up to what we pr... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON The quarrel of the sociologists with the historians is that the latter have learned so much about ho... ALBION W. SMALL We are, all of us, utterly committed and deeply devoted to our "style", our "way", our "approach to ... JOHN ELDREDGE Regardless ... if you think the war is right wrong or otherwise, we have people over here battling f... BRYAN COX All right, he thought, okay; if thats the way it is; a savagery of anger in him now at the picture. ... JAMES JONES We should not...think of our fellowship with other Christians as a spiritual luxury, an optional add... J.I. PACKER It would be nice if we had something here in the North Country where there were enough good jobs, go... JAMES DAWSON It has been a long haul but we now have an important addition to our facilities that will mean our f... BILL CUNNINGHAM Maybe now I'll be able to have a couple of extra cookies or ice cream after dinner without feeling s... DAVID LARSEN If they conducted a raid in this room, you'd all be policed up. They'd take all of you to Ab... JANIS KARPINSKI Everybody has a language or code that they use with their wife or their girlfriend or boyfriend or w... BEN GIBBARD You may not find it normal, but as long as we're all born human we should be entitled to the same ri... MARCUS GONZALES Eileen says what they should really do, if they want to be fair about it, is offer a Bible study cla... LAURA MORIARTY Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr... CRAIG GROESCHEL Hes learned to never trust anyone with his heart. People lie, cheat, hurt, steal, and play. He cant ... ZACH MOUNCE I am dreading it. I don't want anything to happen to either Bryan or Steve. It would be better if we... SIR ALEX FERGUSON Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving e... F. SCOTT FITZGERALD We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians m... VINCENT BUGLIOSI We make sure they drink water all day long. And they are allowed to do that in all of their classes.... JEAN FOSTER I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I... JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to... WILLIAM WILBERFORCE It's bittersweet. The last time I was in an all-star game, I was in Grade 11 or 12 in high school. T... DUSTIN PENNER If that tank had been an hour or two later, I would not be here. LOU DUNST They would have liked to be rich. They believed they would have been up to it. They would have known... GEORGES PEREC He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize how much he cared for her, and he told he... NEIL GAIMAN True investing is making a commitment to own a company, to participate in its business over the long... BOB MILLEN Under the school policy, they would be able to come back to school. They have to reapply. All of the... JAN MCDONALD We have to find a way to allow (Hispanics) that want to come here and work to do so as long as we ca... MIKE ROGERS My wife and I haven't gotten rich here, but it's been very satisfying to do it our own way. JIM MAAS We have been communicating that with them since November. We are sure that most of our people have a... DANA CONKLIN A good score should have a point of view all of its own. It should transcend all that has gone befor... HANS ZIMMER an apocalyptic turn of events, one that would not have been anticipated or appreciated by our foundi... BOB COSTAS South African investors have been all over Africa ... but they haven't been here. They are probably ... VICTOR ANGELO Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful so compelling that when-in a decade, a centu... JOHN WHEELER How should we be able to forget those ancient myths that are at the beginning of all peoples, the my... RAINER MARIA RILKE Sometimes I used to think that one day i should wake up, and all that had been would be over. forgot... ERICH MARIA REMARQUE My wife and I love children. We have five of our own. I would ask that anyone who looks up to me wou... ALBERT PUJOLS Do you think that the people of South Africa, or anywhere on the continent of Africa, or India, or P... ARUNDHATI ROY We all have that capacity to lose our humanity when circumstances force us to do so. It's not sp... ISHMAEL BEAH I cant tell you how long its going to be, ... Cartilage scopes typically can be two weeks, sometimes... MIKE HOLMGREN People realize that what we have here is a rare scene, a preservation of our culture. And so they co... RICHARD HARRIS Truth was funny, because it was an insistent thing, maybe as powerful and insistent as some force of... DEB CALETTI We've got players that know the system and have been here long enough. We just got to make it happen... JOE HORNBACK There is scarcely an instant that passes over our heads that may not have its freight of infamy. How... WILLIAM GODWIN Maybe honor was in its twilight. Maybe it had always been heading that way. Or worse, maybe it had a... DENNIS LEHANE Commemoration of Brigid, Abbess of Kildare, c.525 We can all call to mind movements which have beg... LESSLIE NEWBIGIN Perhaps soul mates don’t exist, I thought. Maybe they were only a way to get over a loss that coul... NADèGE RICHARDS Behind it all is surely an idea so simple, so beautiful, that when we grasp it - in a decade, a cent... JOHN ARCHIBALD WHEELER He wondered how it could have taken him so long to realize he cared for her, and he told her so, and... NEIL GAIMAN So we want to change the tax system. We want it to be fair, and we want to see some tax relief becau... TODD TIAHRT Before, back in the '50s, women didn't have as many rights as men, so they had to be that st... KENDRA WILKINSON We have practically all the family names, and they are members of a current within Hizb ut-Tahrir th... ISLAM KARIMOV We Americans are not usually thought to be a submissive people, but of course we are. Why else would... WENDELL BERRY Those that have received care here in Des Moines at the VA center or the VA hospital here have said ... JONI ERNST We need be careful how we deal with those about us, when every death carries to some small circle of... CHARLES DICKENS Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how ... RAVI ZACHARIAS We've only played 10 or 12 shows with Matt. Markku left a month and a half, maybe two, ago. We met M... DAN ESTRIN All the coaches from the two schools are friends and they called with the idea and we thought it wou... MIKE ARMSTRONG I think more it's a test of where we are in our own system. That's how we have to look at it. We're ... BRIAN DOYON I think all those guys that didn't get a chance to move ... they all had solid seasons here, they co... GARY KENDALL If it came to a magic genie, I would ask him for two extra wishes. One would be that no one would ha... MATTIE STEPANEK Men will allow God to be everywhere but on his throne. They will allow him to be in his workshop to ... CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON My wife even thinks our next album should be recorded in our house, and we should move all the furni... BRANDI CARLILE It reminds us whether we're Catholic or another denomination, or whether we don't have the gift of f... DAVE BAKER Eventually, the more I listened and became obsessed with singers, I feel like the more I realized th... CECILE MCLORIN SALVANT Imagine, if you will: A bright yellow star lit the darkness somewhere in deep space, acco... CHRISTINA ENGELA I wish to underline our deep dismay that over 50 Islamic countries encompassing more than one-point-... MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by le... MARK BOWDEN let's bear His name and walk by His Word Isaiah 4:1King James Version (KJV) 4 And in that ... JEAN FAUSTIN LOUEMBE
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BARBARA KINGSOLVER Why is it that only girls stand on the sides of their feet? As if they're afraid to plant themselves... BARBARA KINGSOLVER You think you're no good, so you can't do good things. Jesus, Codi, how long are you going to keep l... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Awareness is everything. Hallie once pointed out to me that people worry a lot more about the eterni... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Memory runs along deep, fixed channels in the brain, like electricity along its conduits; only a cat... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't just some fine destination but the road you're on and the fact you know h... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Perhaps growing up meant we put our knives away and feigned ignorance of the damage. BARBARA KINGSOLVER There was a roaring in my ears and I lost track of what they were saying. I believe it was the physi... BARBARA KINGSOLVER You can’t replace people you love with other people…But you can trust that you’re not going to... BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhe... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Insomnia’s different,” I said. It was hard to explain this to people. “You know the light that... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Sometimes I still have American dreams. I mean literally. I see microwave ovens and exercise machine... BARBARA KINGSOLVER To people who think of themselves as God's houseguests, American enterprise must seem arrogant beyon... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I don't expect to see perfection before I die. Lord, if I did I would have stuck my head in the oven... BARBARA KINGSOLVER But children robbed of love will dwell on magic. BARBARA KINGSOLVER You're thinking of revolution as a great all-or-nothing. I think of it as one more morning in a mugg... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I thought: this is how life is, ridiculous beyond comprehension. BARBARA KINGSOLVER I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feel... BARBARA KINGSOLVER The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do i... BARBARA KINGSOLVER At some point in my life I'd honestly hoped love would rescue me from the cold, drafty castle I live... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Your dreams, what you hope for and all that, it's not separate from your life. It grows right up out... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Emelina and I took each other in. All morning I'd felt the strange disjuncture that comes from recon... BARBARA KINGSOLVER A miscarriage is a natural and common event. All told, probably more women have lost a child from th... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness. BARBARA KINGSOLVER She kept swimming out into life because she hadn't yet found a rock to stand on. BARBARA KINGSOLVER He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER ....mountains. They stand at every view, like a mother offering a blanket in which to wrap everyday ... BARBARA KINGSOLVER But I'll tell you a secret. When I want to take God at his word exactly I take a peep out the window... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing... BARBARA KINGSOLVER When you're given a brilliant child you polish her and let her shine. Pigs in Heaven BARBARA KINGSOLVER As long as I kept moving, my grief streamed out behind me like a swimmer's long hair in water. I kne... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I don't bring expectations to any of my books. I don't tell people what to do. I want to inv... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Nonfiction requires enormous discipline. You construct the terms of your story, and then you stick t... BARBARA KINGSOLVER When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist. BARBARA KINGSOLVER I know I'm a rare person, a trained scientist who writes fiction, because so few contemporary no... BARBARA KINGSOLVER Most every book I bring into the world is like birthing a baby; it's a lot of effort! BARBARA KINGSOLVER After 'The Poisonwood Bible' was published, several people believed that my parents were mis... BARBARA KINGSOLVER It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to unde... BARBARA KINGSOLVER At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't hav... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I suppose that is my central obsession. What we owe to society, what we owe to ourselves. BARBARA KINGSOLVER Being a novelist and being a mother have exactly coincided in my life: the call from my agent saying... BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing. BARBARA KINGSOLVER