The attacks of 9/11 were the biggest surprise in American history, and for the past ten years we haven't stopped being surprised. The war on terror has had no discernible trajectory, and, unlike other military conflicts, it's almost impossible to define victory. You can't document the war's progress on a world map or chart it on a historical timetable in a way that makes any sense. A country used to a feeling of being in command and control has been whipsawed into a state of perpetual reaction, swinging wildly between passive fear and fevered, often thoughtless, activity, at a high cost to its self-confidence.
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Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So, I guess we are who we are for alot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I love my mom so much. I don't care if that's corny to say. I think on my next birthday, I'm going t... STEPHEN CHBOSKY We Are All Infinite STEPHEN CHBOSKY You can't just sit there and put everyone's lives ahead of yours and think that counts as love. You ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I saw other people there. Old men sitting alone. Young girls with blue eye shadow and awkward jaws. ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY That one moment when you know you are not a sad story. You are ALIVE. STEPHAN CHBOSKY Somos quienes somos por un montón de razones.Quizás nunca conozcamos la mayoría de ellas.Pero aun... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Ambos dijeron que tomara asiento y parecían hablar en serio, así que me senté. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all beco... STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybewe'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY So I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. STEPHEN CHBOSKY There's nothing like the deep breathes after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore st... STHEPHEN CHBOSKY no more pencils, no more books, no more teachers' dirty looks, when the teacher rings the bell, drop... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't know the significance of this, but I find it very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Maybe it’s sad that these are now memories. And maybe it’s not sad. STEPHEN CHBOSKY You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace." I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl... TAMMARA WEBBER (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part. HENRY JAMES I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. And maybe we'll never know most of them. But even if... STEPHEN CHBOSKY History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I am often asked how it is that I am able to value people to such a deep degree. Apparently, I exhib... C. JOYBELL C. Never give up on you. In order to make a difference you would have to somehow be different. JOHNNIE DENT JR. If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever. FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha... FRANCINE RIVERS I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The only perspective is to really be there. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I didn't feel like reading that night, so I went downstairs and watched a half-hour long commercial ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY How lucky I am to have known somebody and something that saying goodbye to is so damned awful. EVANS G. VALENS You deserve to be with somebody, who knows you're the one, from that very first moment he lays eyes ... C. JOYBELL C. You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Well, you can't know it without something having been sneezed. A.A. MILNE We'll be Friends Forever, won't we, Pooh?' asked Piglet. Even longer,' Pooh answered.” ... A.A. MILNE Each man lives in his own universe and when he dies the world is over BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. MAAS I am broken and healing, but every piece of my heart belong to you. SARAH J. MAAS He thinks he'll be remembered as the villain in the story. But I forgot to tell him that the villain... SARAH J. MAAS Night gathers, and now my watch begins. It shall not end until my death. I shall take no wife, hold ... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Hodor," said Hodor. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN You do what you love, what you need SARAH J. MAAS I turned. Rhysand leaned against the archway into the sitting room, arms crossed, wings nowhere... SARAH J. MAAS Absoballylutely top hole, wot. A and B the C of D I'd say. . . Above and Beyond the Call of Duty. BRIAN JACQUES I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window SUZY DAVIES We begin to fight. The wind and I. Horns locked. Battling each other with elements. LAURA DOCKRILL Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA We live in a world where terror has become a too familiar part of our vocabulary. The terror of 9/11... TOM BROKAW You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Put my head under my pillow, and let the quiet put things where they are supposed to be. STEPHEN CHBOSKY He said it was the kind of book you made your own. STEPHEN CHBOSKY No hay nada como respirar hondo después de reírte tanto. Nada en el mundo como el dolor de estóma... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Sam dropped me off. When she was too far away to see me, I started to cry again. Because she was my ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY blackmagic on a person
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blackmagic on a pe... ASTRODOST She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I wish I was home", She said miserably. She tried so hard to be brave, to be fierce as a... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Why is England manufacturing bigger and better airplanes and bombs and at the same time churning out... ANNE FRANK In a world in which the common rule which binds and regulates what the general masses feel is underm... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH As I’ve said, encountering death has a way of jerking your priorities into line. JAMES C. DOBSON Kehidupan perempuan itu sembilan bagian kacau dan satu bagian ajaib, kau akan segera mengetahuinya..... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Jaime smiled knowingly. Men will read all sorts of things into a knowing smile if you let them. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN it's okay to feel things. And be who you are about them. STEPHEN CHOBOSKY I don’t want to start thinking again. Not like I have this last week. I can’t think again. Not e... STEPHEN CHBOSKY It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I’m caught between trying to live my life, and trying to run from it. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I don't want to be somebody's crush.if somebody likes me, i want them to like the real me, not what ... STEPHEN CHBOSKY The scientific method gives us
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can... LEWIS N. ROE When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know. CRAIG GROESCHEL I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Love is a growing, or full constant light, And his first minute, after noon, is night. JOHN DONNE A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS I began by saying that our history will be what we make it. If we go on as we are, then history will... EDWARD R. MURROW Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis. CRAIG GROESCHEL This is not Winterfell', he told him as he cut his meat with fork and dagger. 'On the Wall, a man ge... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Though we are terrorized by death, it's not different from birth, it just happens BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA He brings the greatest conflict into the history of mankind. He will come soon to our world just lik... TOBA BETA She would tuck Sam into her heart, a bright light for her to take out whenever things were darkest. SARAH J. MAAS It's nice to have things to look forward to. STEPHEN CHBOSKY Eventually I came across another passage. This is what it said: I am not commanding you, but I ... NICHOLAS SPARKS To kill a mockingbird. If you haven't read it, I think you should because it is very interesting. STEPHEN CHBOSKY I will never forget the vision of Jamie walking towards me. NICHOLAS SPARKS As these images were going through my head, my breathing suddenly went still. I looked at Jamie, the... NICHOLAS SPARKS You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on... HARPER LEE You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either. JAIME CONTRERAS
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PACKER I'm saying that an editorial process that is preparing the material for publication counts as pa... J. I. PACKER I never get to the end of mortifying sin because sin in my heart, where it's still marauding eve... J. I. PACKER In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite... J. I. PACKER The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me. J. I. PACKER I'm not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be s... J. I. PACKER My advice to a new husband is nothing more than 'husbands, love your wives.' And 'love y... J. I. PACKER Our business is to present the Christian faith clothed in modern terms, not to propagate modern thou... J. I. PACKER Some suffer from real misfortunes. Sadly, others only imagine that they do. BOYD K. PACKER If we think that Jesus did not rise, but "lives" and "reigns" only in his memories and imaginations,... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch, Martyr, c.107 There is abroad today a widespread suspicio... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of John Coleridge Patteson, First Bishop of Melanesia, & his Companions, Martyrs, 1871 Kn... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Dominic, Priest, Founder of the Order of Preachers, 1221 The mystery revealed, in a un... JAMES I. PACKER What, after all, are the world's deepest problems? They are what they always have been, the individu... JAMES I. PACKER Feast of Mary Sumner, Founder of the Mothers' Union, 1921 When evangelicals call the Bible "ine... JAMES I. PACKER Commemoration of Felix, Bishop, Apostle to the East Angles, 647 Continuing a short series on the Bi... J. I. PACKER All Christians believe in divine sovereignty but some are not aware that they do, and mistakenly ima... J. I. PACKER Martin Luther described the doctrine of justification by faith as the article of faith that decides ... J. I. PACKER I recognize two kinds of faith. The first is the kind which is apparent in the world. It is the comm... BOYD K. PACKER Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because th... BOYD K. PACKER The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evi... BOYD K. PACKER It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. GEORGE My grandmother lived to 104 years old, and part of her success was she woke up every morning to a br... GEORGE TAKEI Every historian discloses a new horizon. GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. GEORGE SAND Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. GEORGE WASHINGTON First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, y... GEORGE BURNS The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings. GEORGE SANTAYANA Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. GEORGE SANTAYANA Friends are generally of the same sex, for when men and women agree, it is only in the conclusions; ... GEORGE SANTAYANA Fanaticism consists of redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim. GEORGE SANTAYANA History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. GEORGE SANTAYANA A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. GEORGE SANTAYANA When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different. GEORGE SANTAYANA A child educated only at school is an uneducated child. GEORGE SANTAYANA