We all grew up, those of us who took On the Road to heart. We came to cringe a little at our old favorite poet, concluding that God was likely never Pooh Bear, that sometimes New York and California could be just as isolated as our provincial hometown, and that grown men didn't run back and forth all the time bleeding soup and sympathy out of sucker women. But those are just details, really. We got what we needed, namely a passion for unlikely words, the willingness to improvise, a distrust of authority, and a sentimental attachment to a certain America....
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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 The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have. CRAIG GROESCHEL Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves. CRAIG GROESCHEL You're still lovely," Mor said a bit gently. Elain offered a half smile. "I suppose that war m... SARAH J. MAAS Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day. CRAIG GROESCHEL 35. God is entitled to a portion of our income—not because He needs it but because we need to give... JAMES C. DOBSON Empathy is the new measurement of everything. It doesn't matter what religion you have, what God you... C. JOYBELL C. Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The issue isn't whether he loved you, it's how much. Too much. Love can be poison SARAH J. 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ELIZABETH TAYLOR You are the blood of the dragon. You can make a hat. GEORGE R.R. MARTIN (All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadnes... JEAN SASSON Convinced that we're living the whole time that we're dying. We decide to go out walking the wh... TEGAN QUIN Plunging in “truths” about God is like walking on the bottom of a sea that is not there, searchi... MARIANA FULGER I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I have two great duties in each day: firstly, to identify why I woke up and secondly to be convinced... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I frowned at the eye in my palm. "What, literally shout at the tattoo?" "You could try rubbing ... SARAH J. MAAS I want to share this bed with you, though," I breathed. "I want you to hold me." Stars flicker... SARAH J. 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ANTHONY LICCIONE You must have traveled all night,” she heard herself say. “I had to come back early.” Sh... LISA KLEYPAS When a lot of voices, make up a noise, the man who is silent represents a voice. APURVA GAGLANI It came at the right time for our hockey club with all the injuries and things that were going on. W... JARRET STOLL The Biggest Threat to our Democracy, Freedoms and Future is Leadership that fosters and Appeases the... MICHAEL HARRIS 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 A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here? ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH That's why we seize the moment try to freeze it and own it, squeeze it and hold it. EMINEM We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL In a day and age where it seems like women want to be with unstable, psychotic, manipulative freaks;... C. JOYBELL C. That boy had wanted to be Ser Arthur Dayne, but someplace along the way he had become the Smiling Kn... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN I think on Friday we didn't come out as ready as we came out (Sunday). Friday was kind of like a war... LAUREN BROWN 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 We die a day at a time BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON This is the only time for high ideals because those ideals are all that we have. We aren't ju... MAX BROOKS 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 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 Julia poured tea gracefully, but it all ran over into the saucers. ELIZABETH TAYLOR The next day, the villages came closer together until the beginnings and endings could no longer be ... PATRICK W. CARR It appeared to Harriet that she was always the one who remembered having seen other people. They nev... ELIZABETH TAYLOR Would you like me to grovel with gratitude for bringing me here, High Lord?" "Ah. The Suriel to... SARAH J. MAAS Beaming into the thick of a tree without becoming a lifelong tree hugger was a tricky business. A pr... CHRISTINA ENGELA How to be a Poet (to remind myself) Make a place to sit down. Sit down. Be quiet. <... WENDELL BERRY Democrats, independents, Republicans, all of us Americans who love our country. What a wonderful tim... ROBERT HURT Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full. CHLOE THURLOW Everything passes by, and we are left with just our memories BEN OAK We launched Condoms4Life to educate young Catholics, as well as gay and straight couples, about what... FRANCES KISSLING 38. “A wet bird never flies at night.” (My grandfather said that to me when I was a child and wa... JAMES C. DOBSON A coin is examined, and only after careful deliberation, given to a beggar, whereas a child is flung... PETER WESSEL ZAPFFE In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA I hope we can play better than that. Sometimes the score is distorted. We did what we had to do. We ... WALLY BUONO We went back and forth and we could never get the details worked out. When it became obvious that it... JOE SIMPSON We're all - especially myself - influenced by old-school music, but we all listen to some new-school... ALAN EVANS That loss at Marquette was just a bad loss for us. We came back on the road at Syracuse. This was a ... JEFF ADRIEN We don't need to have just one favorite. We keep adding favorites. Our favorite book is always the b... LLOYD ALEXANDER I needed not to be dead when I agreed.” “You needed not to be alone. SARAH J. MAAS She didn’t know what to do with it, that rage. It still burned and hunted her, still made her want... SARAH J. MAAS I don't know if I have a favorite color. KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl. KATE MIDDLETON All our religion is but a false religion, and all our virtues are mere illusions and we ourselves ar... JOHN VIANNEY She was scarcely a year older than I was, dark-haired, slender, with a face that would break your he... GEORGE R.R. MARTIN A Ritual to Read to Each Other If you don’t know the kind of person I am and... WILLIAM STAFFORD I don't want to jinx us, but we kind of broke out of our shooting slump. Defensively, I didn't think... BRIAN MENY
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SARAH WILLIAMS For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste w... SARAH BERNHARDT The truth, the absolute truth, is that the chief beauty for the theatre consists in fine bodily prop... SARAH BERNHARDT The monster of advertisement...is a sort of octopus with innumerable tentacles. It throws out to rig... SARAH BERNHARDT New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion, and per... SARAH BERNHARDT You must have this charm to reach the pinnacle. It is made of everything and of nothing, the strivin... SARAH BERNHARDT America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that... SARAH PALIN We must live for the few who know and appreciate us, who judge and absolve us, and for whom we have ... SARAH BERNHARDT As long as you can still be dissapointed, you are still young. -Sarah Churchill. SARAH CHURCHILL I adore Chicago. It is the pulse of America. SARAH BERNHARDT Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can - there will always come a time when ... SARAH CALDWELL I pull you from your tower, take away your pain. Show you all the beauty you possess, if you only le... SARAH MCLACHLAN I love you smile at me, I love the way your hands reach out and hold me near....I believe this is he... SARAH MCLACHLAN There's a little bit of hooker in every woman. A little bit of hooker and a little bit of God. SARAH MILES Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Bec... SARAH DESSEN Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memo... SARAH DESSEN I am coming to terms with the fact that loving someone requires a leap of faith, and that a soft lan... SARAH DESSEN If the mind is open and awake
then.... do the gods partake
to fill the spaces inbetween
the dreamer ... SARAH PERE Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. SARAH BERNHARDT This is the problem with dealing with someone who is actually a good listener. They don’t jump in ... SARAH DESSEN I don't lie." "You don't lie," I repeated. "That's what I said." "Ever." "Nope."... SARAH DESSEN for once, you believed in yourself. you believed you were beautiful and so did the rest of the world... SARAH DESSEN My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&... SARAH GADON I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, ... SARAH DESSEN My story is the story of many postwar British families. Upward mobility. A council house and then ne... SARAH WATERS Pop music provides not just the soundtrack to our lives, as the cliche goes; it releases our emotion... SARAH CHURCHWELL The best partnerships aren't dependent on a mere common goal but on a shared path of equality, d... SARAH MACLEAN We need American sources of resources, we need American energy, brought to you by American ingenuity... SARAH PALIN It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to sw... SARAH CHALKE There's beauty everywhere. There are amazing things happening everywhere, you just have to be ab... SARAH MCLACHLAN I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who w... SARAH PAULSON