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The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
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So, a crash course for the amnesiac,” Leo said, in a helpful tone that made Jason think this was n...
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Alexander the Great slept with
'The Iliad' beneath his pillow.
Though I’ve never led a...
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Maybe it’s the other way around,” Jason suggested. “Maybe people with special gifts show up wh...
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The end of the world is a strange concept. The world is always ending, and the end is always being a...
NEIL GAIMAN
I Think it is lost.....but nothing is ever lost nor can be lost .
The body sluggish, aged, cold...
WALT WHITMAN
Flirting with the dark side has always had it's fascination. Because you learn, and there's wisdom t...
EDWARD HERRMANN
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
Fitz’s human clothes are a huge snoozefest. Check out what Dex and I found in Alvar’s closet!”...
SHANNON MESSENGER
Traitor!" Hera shouted. "You meddlesome, D-list goddess! You aren't worthy to pour my wine, much les...
RICK RIORDAN
How would it be,” said Pooh slowly, “if, as soon as we’re out of sight of this Pit, we try to ...
MILNE, A. A.
Suntem creatori, dar jucăm naivi, rolul de „creație”. Ne considerăm biete oi neajutorate, mâ...
DAN BROWN
Ce soartă va avea condiția omenească dacă marile mistere ale vieții vor fi în sfârșit elucid...
DAN BROWN
Schimbarea este iminentă. Ființa omenească se află în pragul unei noi ere, când își va înto...
DAN BROWN
A trăi în lume fără a deveni conștient de sensul ei este ca și când ai rătăci într-o mare ...
DAN BROWN
Adevărul are putere. Iar dacă gravităm cu toții în jurul acelorași idei, o facem poate, întru...
DAN BROWN
Nothing lasts forever, not even the best machines. And everything can be reused.
- Hephaestus
RICK RIORDAN
There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a ...
ALBERT CAMUS
Sophie Foster was going home.
SHANNON MESSENGER
Take care of my moonlark.
SHANNON MESSENGER
Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ...
THOMAS HARRIS
One must live as if it would be forever, and as if one might die each moment. Always both at once.
MARY RENAULT
I can't solve the problems of the world, but being the best person I can be will certainly lessen th...
JIM GENOVESE
If you say you will lead a people to a new age then do it, but don't hide behind your laws as an exc...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ
It is not the grain of grass that will decide mans future but the bullet that comes from the barrel ...
DEAN IBERHYSAJ
Philosophies of the world: Indian Philosophy: Survive and grow Chinese Philosophy: Lets fake it West...
APURVA GAGLANI
Controlling, Sickening, Demoralizing, Disgraceful, Limiting, and Falsely "Ambitionizingly" Repetitiv...
NICKOLE SANDERS
A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.

[Alexander's tombstone epit...
ALEXANDER THE GREAT
The power to have a functional imagination faculty,is by learning to activate it through constant re...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Open your minds, my friends. We all fear what we don't understand.
DAN BROWN
Love is the most powerful motivator in the world. It spurs mortals to greatness. Their noblest and b...
RICK RIORDAN
Love is powerful. It can bring the gods to their knees.
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From the Kindle Book Reflections in the Mirror of Life:
“In a slum somewhere in India
As...
THE PROPHET OF LIFE
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
It's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there.
PIERRE ELLIOTT TRUDEAU
Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
The star only rises at Nightfall...
SHANNON MESSENGER
It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who cou...
GREGORY MAGUIRE
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
There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one ...
DONALD DAVIDSON
You’re not the only one,” he says through gritted teeth. “My twelve-year-old sister died in my...
RICK YANCEY
When you're a kid, they tell you it's all "Grow up, Get a job. Get married. Get a house, Have a kid....
~DOCTOR WHO
The world is more than the sum of its suffering.
DEEPAK CHOPRA
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...
Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN
I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON
It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON
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
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
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
I have lightning and wind powers," Jason reminded him. "Piper can turn beautiful and charm people in...
RICK RIORDAN
Yeah, well. I don’t try to be awesome. It just comes natural.
RICK RIORDAN
Some guys spend days looking for something they lost. I never seem to have anything that if I lost i...
J.D. SALINGER
If our ancestors could see us today, surely they would think us gods.
DAN BROWN
The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.
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Leo had seen Tia Callida in action; she liked knives, snakes and putting babies in roaring fires. Ye...
RICK RIORDAN
The End is Nigh!" the man shouted.
"Is there still time for hot chocolate?" Riley asked.
T...
JANA OLIVER
Connectivity without stability such like building something fragile inside something empty
GIHARU SI PEREMPUAN GUNUNG
Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)
RICHARD KADREY
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
The Creator seeks to save the lost souls.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
She wasn’t the Black Swan’s puppet anymore.
She was broken.
All she had left was trust...
SHANNON MESSENGER
I don't care. They tried to take my family from me, and I'm not going to sit back anymore. So yo...
SHANNON MESSENGER
We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM

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The International Brigades and the British volunteers were, numerically, only a small part of the Re...
BILL ALEXANDER
The anger in the Brigade against those who fought the Republic in the rear was sharpened by reports ...
BILL ALEXANDER
This Network Generation have grown up in a connected world. With Skype, Facebook, Twitter and the In...
DOUGLAS ALEXANDER
Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off...
ALEXANDER SMITH
Scarce any Tale was sooner heard than told;And all who told it, added something new,And all who hear...
ALEXANDER POPE
See skulking Truth to her old cavern fled,
Mountains of Casuistry heap'd o'er her head!
Philos...
ALEXANDER POPE
Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part ...
ALEXANDER POPE
Death is but a passage. It is not a house, it is only a vestibule. The grave has a door on its inner...
ALEXANDER MACLAREN
No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody fl...
ALEXANDER TROCCHI
The history of human conduct does not warrant that exalted opinion of human virtue which would make ...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
When occasions present themselves, in which the interests of the people are at variance with their i...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In the main it will be found that a power over a mans support salary is a power over his will.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
The fundamental source of all your errors, sophisms, and false reasonings, is a total ignorance of t...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there w...
EBEN ALEXANDER
I grew up in a scientific world, the son of a neurosurgeon.
EBEN ALEXANDER
I'm not the first person to have discovered evidence that consciousness exists beyond the body. ...
EBEN ALEXANDER
As a neurosurgeon, I did not believe in the phenomenon of near-death experiences.
EBEN ALEXANDER
There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscio...
EBEN ALEXANDER
Our spirit is not dependent on the brain or body. It is eternal, and no one has one sentence worth o...
EBEN ALEXANDER
The honor of a nation is its life.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in th...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And h...
ALEXANDER POPE
It is part of the cure to wish to be cured. [Lat., Pars sanitatis velle sanari fruit.]
ALEXANDER POPE
There are times when I think, if I were a bit more famous, life could be easier in terms of work bec...
ALEXANDER HANSON
I am not aspiring to be a senior bureaucrat. It would limit my freedom.
ALEXANDER LEBEDEV
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is ho...
ALEXANDER PAYNE
That's not to say we won't hear an aircraft occasionally, but the national standard for noise compat...
ALAN ALEXANDER
It's a very rugged country, and the weather can turn rapidly. Sometimes you can see the storms comin...
ALAN ALEXANDER
Insurgents used to mortar the thing every day. Luckily, it was a very large base and they were very ...
ALAN ALEXANDER
I had some personal reservations about, 'Can I do the job?' But I had no reservations about being mo...
ALAN ALEXANDER
When my unit left, we felt good about what we had done.
ALAN ALEXANDER
The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, With loads of learned lumber in his head.
ALEXANDER POPE
Even when I was an actor in training, one criticism my teachers had was that I should think about di...
JASON ALEXANDER
War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresp...
ALEXANDER BERKMAN
Such a wife as I want... must be young, handsome I lay most stress upon a good shape, sensible a lit...
ALEXANDER HAMILTON
More and more people care about religious tolerance as fewer and fewer care about religion
ALEXANDER CHASE
A soft refusal is not always taken, but a rude one is immediately believed
ALEXANDER CHASE
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
ALEXANDER CHASE
To attempt suicide is a criminal offense. Any man who, of his own will, tries to escape the treadmil...
ALEXANDER CHASE
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible
ALEXANDER CHASE
Psychiatry's chief contribution to philosophy is the discovery that the toilet is the seat of the so...
ALEXANDER CHASE