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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 Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Percy was getting tired of water. If he said that aloud, he would probably get kicked out of Po... RICK RIORDAN The battle is not physical, it is spiritual and your mind is the battleground. Keep your mind pure a... JEANETTE CORON The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a... NEIL GAIMAN We have tears in our eyes As we wave our goodbyes, We so loved being with you, we three. ROALD DAHL He’d learned years ago it was better not to dwell too much on who was related to whom on the godly... 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 Then that's what the Northern Lights are. All the lives that we're not living. ADI ALSAID Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do SOTONYE ANGA Annabeth:My fatal flaw. That's what the Sirens showed me. My fatal flaw is hubris. Percy: the ... RICK RIORDAN To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ... GARY F EVANS... Which reminded me...I still owed the gods a debt. "You're a genius," I (Percy) told Annabeth. RICK RIORDAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time that we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON Your mind is a Microcosm of strength and power. There’s all the magic you need in it. When all els... CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha... TEKOA MANNING 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 Did someone just call me the wine dude ?” he asked in a lazy drawl. “It’s Bacchus, pleas... RICK RIORDAN I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in... RICK RIORDAN At the end of the warehouse was a dais constructed from pallets of books: stack of vampire novels, w... RICK RIORDAN Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She�... RICK RIORDAN Looking at the elementary schoolers in their colorful T-shirts from various day camps, Percy felt a ... RICK RIORDAN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word. DIANA WYNNE JONES What is the Other?" they ask. The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ... PAULO COELHO I'd missed Annabeth probably more than I wanted to admit. RICK RIORDAN Now is the only time we have, and the only time we have any control over. RICHARD CARLSON It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h... RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it." A feeling of warmt... RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness.... RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice. "Not where I should have b... RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun. RENEE AHDIEH Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” ... RICK RIORDAN Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us—long-range radar, still not in sight.” RICK RIORDAN Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer... J.R.R. TOLKIEN Annabeth realized that if six of them went on these two quests, it would leave Percy alone on the sh... RICK RIORDAN Annabeth,” he said hesitantly, “in New Rome, demigods can live their whole lives in peace.” RICK RIORDAN Piper and Hazel were ready to go, but first Annabeth turned to Percy, who was leaning on the starboa... RICK RIORDAN There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ... ALBERT CAMUS Don't you ever feel like, what if the world really IS messed up? What if we COULD Do it all over aga... RICK RIORDAN I sat up in bed. "What did he say?" Tyson groaned, still half asleep. He was lying facedown on ... RICK RIORDAN The warm sound of her laughter stole through Khalid's skin, heating the coldest reaches of his soul. RENEE AHDIEH 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... THE WORK OF THE CHARIOT The end is the matter! A step to the end is a factor! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Yay!” Tyson went around the couches and gave everyone a big hug—even Octavian, who didn't look t... RICK RIORDAN Hazel!” he yelled. “That box! Open it!” She hesitated, then saw the box he meant. Te labe... RICK RIORDAN If not for the horses, Piper would've died. RICK RIORDAN Pluto's pauldrons,” Reyna cursed. RICK RIORDAN Dedication is the preparation to success! WERNER BOTHA The events show how desperate the present royal regime is. It is becoming paranoid. The movement is ... DHRUBA ADHIKARY are in the present deployment condition, even an unintentional, even a small incident can spark a ch... ABDUL SATTAR Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better
than we deserve. GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ... J.R.R. TOLKIEN We pay a price for everything we get or take in this world; and although ambitions are well worth ha... L.M. MONTGOMERY What exactly did you find in Atlanta?” Frank unzipped his backpack and started bringing out s... RICK RIORDAN The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standin... RICK RIORDAN I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON Mother Superior jump the gun... -The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun LAUREN MYRACLE Anybody have any money?” Frank checked his pockets. “Three denarii from Camp Jupiter. Five ... RICK RIORDAN I still don't understand what a sea god would be doing in Atlanta." Leo snorted. "What's a wine... RICK RIORDAN The meeting was like a war council with donuts. Then again, back at Camp Half-Blood they used to hav... RICK RIORDAN Forget the chicken-nugget smoke screen. Percy wanted Leo to invent an anti-dream hat. RICK RIORDAN This is the Wilderness School. 'Where the Kids are animals RICK RIORDAN Butch hesitated. "Annabeth's okay. You gotta cut her some slack. She had a vision telling her to com... RICK RIORDAN 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 From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life: “In a slum somewhere in India As... THE PROPHET OF LIFE Reinvent yourself. Don't let your past weigh you down. MARTY RUBIN It is said that nothing in our lives is ever lost, that nothing can prevent its having been. That is... MARCEL PROUST You can't judge the present by the past. Each day is different, and you live it differently. MARTY RUBIN The secret of my success is my hairspray. RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too. PATRICK ROTHFUSS 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 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 The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be. QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t... QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th... QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ... QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good... QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e... 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
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Glimpses do ye seem to see of that mortally intolerable truth; that all dee... HERMAN MELVILLE For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the... HERMAN MELVILLE For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the... HERMAN MELVILLE Preferiría no hacerlo HERMAN MELVILLE ...then the rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, and laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and p... HERMAN MELVILLE Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! HERMAN MELVILLE Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. The... HERMAN MELVILLE Human madness is oftentimes a cunning and most feline thing. When you think it fled, it may have but... HERMAN MELVILLE The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. Not drowned ent... HERMAN MELVILLE There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange... HERMAN MELVILLE Yet habit - strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? HERMAN MELVILLE Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian. HERMAN MELVILLE To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit... HERMAN MELVILLE There are times when even the most potent governor must wink at transgression, in order to preserve ... HERMAN MELVILLE Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted dow... HERMAN MELVILLE One often hears of writers that rise and swell with their subject, though it may seem but an ordinar... HERMAN MELVILLE For tho' we know what we ought to be; & what it would be very sweet & beautiful to be; yet w... HERMAN MELVILLE I say, I can not identify that thing which is called happiness, that thing whose token is a laugh, o... HERMAN MELVILLE It was a black and hooded head; and hanging there in the midst of so intense a calm, it seemed the S... HERMAN MELVILLE Very often do the captains of such ships take those absent-minded young philosopher to task, upbraid... HERMAN MELVILLE You might almost say, that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelegence; f... HERMAN MELVILLE There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itsel... HERMAN MELVILLE There seems no reason why patriotism and narrowness should go together, or why intellectual fairmind... HERMAN MELVILLE That mortal man who hath more of joy than sorrow in him, that mortal man cannot be true — not true... HERMAN MELVILLE One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control. RODNEY DANGERFIELD At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still... RODNEY DANGERFIELD My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugl... RODNEY DANGERFIELD I looked up my family tree and found out I was the sap. RODNEY DANGERFIELD I found there was only one way to look thin: hang out with fat people. RODNEY DANGERFIELD What a kid I got, I told him about the birds and the bee and he told me about the butcher and my wif... RODNEY DANGERFIELD When you have 435 people who are opinionated... sometimes agreeing on things is difficult. RODNEY FRELINGHUYSEN My wife can't cook at all. She made chocolate mousse. An antler got stuck in my throat. RODNEY DANGERFIELD I met the surgeon general - he offered me a cigarette. RODNEY DANGERFIELD I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't ... RODNEY DANGERFIELD