To some extent, Seattle remains a frontier metropolis, a place where people can experiment with their lives, and change and grow and make things happen.
Tom Robbins
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When the right stage gets missing, true talent that can grow to inspire, nurture and change lives le... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Matty blinked. 'You're passing up whips for shopping ?' 'You're bitching about ... LETA BLAKE Daring to dream is not difficult, it's making them come true that is hard... NANETTE L. AVERY When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI Miracles happen and grow in places where hope lives. LATIKA TEOTIA I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment. DAMIEN CHAZELLE There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make ... VERA FARMIGA A small change can make a big difference. You are the only one who can make our world a better place... ANKITA SINGHAL You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS The clubhouse is not a place where people come to stop. It's not adult day care. It's a place where ... ANDY WILSON There are things I am more interested in than the clone thing. How are they trying to find their pla... KAZUO ISHIGURO When you are called for a great duty because you have been given a great ability, do your very best ... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH 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 Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. And then there are those who wonder... CARROLL BRYANT It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are not the happy, unthinking child you have always appeared to be, accepting everything at its ... AGATHA CHRISTIE I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the ... SHARON DRAPER Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentabl... GEORGE SANTAYANA People adapt. People change. You can grow where you're planted. SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Things change in people's lives. This way we can make sure people are still interested. DANA PEACOCK By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes. E.M. FORSTER I hope this will change the city's image, and make people feel this is a place where biotech is and ... HAROLD VARMUS The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow. KATE WINSLET The things we can do to change other people’s lives will change our lives and it will change our c... ANIL GUPTA We in the majority have worked hard to empower people to create opportunities, to make jobs, to do t... ROBIN HAYES Things change in different countries as people grow, and as generations change. SHANNON ELIZABETH Life’s like that. As we grow and change, some things we’ve experienced before take on new meanin... RICHELLE MEAD why do people rise and fall.. How and when they will get the attentions and why politicians fall whe... SHARIF MOHAMED She made a fence of phrases, which seemed a treachery to herself. ELIZABETH TAYLOR Fred Zinnemann, on From Here To Eternity and The Sundowners really brings out of me, in a completely... DEBORAH KERR They need to understand they have to do something post secondary. Work is inevitable. They have to p... DEBORAH KERR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Some people make things happen, some watch things happen, while others wonder what has happened PROVERB Leaders don’t give excessive vocal orders. They humbly involve people and together cooperate with ... ISRAELMORE AYIVOR With their speed they can create problems and make things happen. But then crazy things start to hap... DENISE NUGENT Since I am a teacher and I lecture on social change, and on up-leveling people's lives, science fict... RICHARD HATCH It's always been a dream of mine where I could have a place where I could grow healthy food and have... DENELL STOSIO History is a wheel, for the nature of man is fundamentally unchanging. What has happened before will... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN "The Magic Of Kindness, Can Change Lives, Including Our Own." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. MAAS We don't feel pressure anymore. We just feel that we're in a situation where we can make some things... DANNY GREEN God wonderfully made you different; you must make a wonderful difference ! ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I think that it is really important that we go in there with a little bit of a swagger and play with... EVAN JUDGE People planned to drive less and expected to change their driving habits. They figure out ways to ma... CATHERINE ROSSI they were all ordinary until they took the extraordinary steps with courage to leave the extraordina... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Some People Make Things Happen, Some Watch Things Happen, While Others Wonder What Has Ha... ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Two categories of people can be found in the world today. There are those who make things happen and... BENJAMIN SUULOLA Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather tha... JEFFREY R. ANDERSON I'd love to see a place where people could get together with their animals and meet other people. ANGELA ALLEN If we want to make this world a better place. We need to change our selves first. If you know where ... VICTOR WERNET The Brady Bunch: The Complete Fourth Season AND CITY Everybody wonders what happens after you die[Carrie] I'm too busy wondering who's dinging my car in... AND CITY Desperate Housewives. AND CITY I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it. AND CITY A stud is born! [Stanford] AND CITY Courtney (Showing Carrie her book cover): Let me talk you through it. Blurred background, aah, fast-... AND CITY It's such a tribute to my show. My show is so good. I feel so blessed to play such a strong characte... AND CITY You men have no idea what we're dealing with down there. Teeth placement, and jaw stress, and suctio... AND CITY I don't believe in the Republican party or the Democratic party. I just believe in parties. [Samanth... AND CITY Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely ... AND CITY Honey, I've decided we're going to Louisiana. JILL AND We'll have to find new accommodation tonight, JILL AND None of these places, of course, are charging any rent, JILL AND Why do people say ‘grow some balls’? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a... LINDA KAGE Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vag... BETTY WHITE Why do people say "grow some balls"? Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vag... SHENG WANG We have a memorial hill where people can place etched stones for loved ones whose remains have been ... LORRETTA GUAZZINI This enhancement to the scoreboard, to the playing surface, and some of the other amenities we'll us... DAN MASON "Loving friends let kindness grow in their hearts, creating a oneness with their souls." ~ Tom Baker TOM BAKER AKA THE PONDERING MAN Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there b... RASHEDUR RYAN RAHMAN I want my children to be able to meet and play and communicate with many other children on their own... MOSHE SAFDIE We're in a transitional period, and I want to make sure I have a team in place that is with us for, ... JOSH BOLTEN God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, an... NATALIE COLE Outsiders. He had this weird contraption of a drum kit where he was playing half with a tambourine i... ALEX KAPRANOS He didn't think he belonged here, so she was making him face some uncomfortable facts. People adapt.... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS He wanted to argue like this forever. This was better than nothing. There was no exhausting his ange... DAVID DUCHOVNY Philly is a place where people love change as long as things stay the same for them. MICHAEL NUTTER I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change their lives, but I've met many... PEACE PILGRIM I've met a few people who had to change their jobs in order to change
their lives, but I've met many... PILGRIMS Bhulaney ke liay bhi tujhy yaad tu kerna hoga, Magar her yaad se hain wabasta teri hazaar baata... HUSEYN RAZA With so much media consolidation, less than a dozen companies now own most of the newspapers, magazi... LOUISE THOMPSON I was not a pet, not a doll, not an animal. I was a survivor, and I was strong. I would no... SARAH J. MAAS I sipped from my wine. "And if he had grabbed me?" There was nothing but uncompromising w... SARAH J. MAAS There you are. I've been looking for you. His first words to me— not a lie at a... SARAH J. MAAS I was not prey any longer, I decided as I eased up to that door. And I was not a mouse. I ... SARAH J. MAAS No one was my master— but I might be master of everything, if I wished. If I dared. 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 Grin when you win and others will do the same to you. And it will not rest with either. JAIME CONTRERAS There'll be a whole lot of things you ain't gonna want to do, but you'll have to do in this life jus... MILDRED D. TAYLOR I suppose the part nearest me is Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy. Of course playright Bob Anderso... DEBORAH KERR He drained his glass. "I made a mistake." "It's not the end of the world if you do that every n... SARAH J. MAAS I will kill anyone who harms you," Rhys snarled. "I will kill them, and take a damn long time doing ... SARAH J. MAAS
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