We didn't Make this World we're just the Poor Fools who are living in it.
Michael Grant
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You'll never have complete control, Caine. This world is changing all the time. Animals. People. Who...
MICHAEL GRANT So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY Take all the fools out of this world and there wouldn't be any fun living in it, or profit.
JOSH BILLINGS We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The ric...
PANAYIOTIS ZAVOS 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... When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk...
ASSEGID HABTEWOLD Look, this is just the cemetery. It's got bylaws and things! It's not Transylvania! There's just dea...
TERRY PRATCHETT Are shadows a shadowy reflection of the soul or is it a reflection of who we really are, or possibly...
GARY F EVANS... Our failures in charity are chained to a narrowed vision of the world that makes too much of the dif...
REBECCA GOLDSTEIN We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where ...
SAID SAYRAFIEZADEH The majority is never right. Never, I tell you! That's one of these lies in society that no free and...
HENRIK IBSEN 'T would make one scratch where It does not itch, to see fools live poor to die rich
THOMAS SHADWELL It was April Fools' Day. We were sending out an SOS to let people know we were in trouble. They must...
JEANO CAMPANARO What, the glass is half-full instead of half-empty? Bullshit. What they don't tell you is that regar...
T.J. KLUNE Outside... we are just nobody... you could meet me outside... but it doesn't mean that I am DeYtH Ba...
DEYTH BANGER "We've created this sytem of living..this culture...where we are deliberately making ourselves unhap...
MICHAEL SHRAMEK It's the fools that make all the trouble in the world, not the wicked.
L.M. MONTGOMERY The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
BOB MARLEY Nothing is Perfect in this world,We just have to make it Perfect
SARTHAK SINGH All true artists in the world from all countries and all genres are influenced by Michael Jackson. T...
SONU NIGAM The bus driver told me we had better watch Grant. I'm not kidding. Grant and (Quentin) Lewis can sho...
TOM CAPPEL As we will show, poor countries are poor because those who have power make choices that create pover...
DARON ACEMOğLU Living in this world, the person we are most unfamiliar with is probably ourselves.
YIXING ZHANG As late Michael Jackson songs goes: “We are the world.
EMA DAN World is full of smart people. Ones those who think they are smart, are the only fools.
RAVI DAULATABAD The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the worl...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER The men who start out with the notion that the world owes them a living generally find that the worl...
WILLIAM GRAHAM SUMNER A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Maybe it was the sideburns, but I just didnt fit in. (Elvis speaking about his youth)
ELVIS PRESLEY Only those who are brainwashed and fools
believe in the existence of a god.
Those who are ...
A.J. BEIRENS There are more fools in the world than there are people.
HEINRICH HEINE People who are poor who are living on the edge of poverty or who are living under poverty are tucked...
JULIAN BOND The Owner Occupied Building Incentive Grant works much like the existing Rent Grant, however, we wan...
KATHY BETHUNE It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ...
DOUGLAS COUPLAND People who make a living playing poker and in that world, it's not quite as sexy as it sounds.
MATT DAMON So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also we...
LAUREN MYRACLE I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this....
DONALD MILLER We are missing Michael.
But we do know we had him, and we are the world.
MAYA ANGELOU We applied for the Small Community Air Service Development Grant. I don't want to say it failed; we ...
DUNE DURAY John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bom...
ISAAC ASIMOV But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The br...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN We were asked to try to put together a grant package that would fund such a program, but we were tur...
PATRICK ALLEN To the person who thinks the world is full of fools, look in the mirror.
VIKRANT PARSAI It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
LUDWIG VON MISES In truth, Kipling's politics are not mine. But then, it would be a poor sort of world if one were on...
NEIL GAIMAN No, I'm not a jerk, Astrid. You know what I am? I'm the guy getting people killed," Sam said quietly...
MICHAEL GRANT The US is like Disney World. There are the fools who pay for the right to play make believe for a da...
BOBBY W. MILLER This world is a joke, and I'm in it
OLIWAH GOUDEE Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bomb...
ISAAC ASIMOV Where ever the Mavericks are today, we owe it to Michael Finley. He was the one guy who stayed when ...
DON NELSON No living being can ever “hitch” another living being. If one were able to “hitch” another, ...
DADA BHAGWAN I am only a cup that knowledge holds. It does not to knowledge matter how poor the cup is. It is the...
JOAN D. VINGE If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.
JEWISH PROVERB You were just fools gold. And me, the fool.
TREW MULLEN why should we feel ashamed of what has happend ,,,, we didnt ask for it ,,, are abuser forced it upo...
GRACE Who can we look to who could for certain make a difference in the world today? Just look in the mirr...
TONY BRADY The words you can’t find, you borrow.
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w...
GABRIELLE ZEVIN Ive loved you my whole life, I just didnt know it until now
~ANYA SUNDQUIST~ John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II...
ISAAC ASIMOV We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live.
The universe may for...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ...
SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Sometimes we represent our weakness as if it were bad. We don’t think it’s okay to be weak…We ...
HENRY CLOUD I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f...
ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van...
SATHESH KUMAR M There are two enemies to every bill proposed in Congress, the fools who favor it and the lunatics wh...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these ...
SAMUEL PEPYS We're really excited to get this grant because it means we can continue this program. We were nearly...
JANEAN HALL People who think they're out of this world always make you wish they were.
UNKNOWN This is like wartime. And all the poor, all the working poor who live from paycheck to paycheck. Thi...
PATRICIA ARQUETTE But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this gr...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN There are three kinds of people in this world: people who make it happen, people who watch what happ...
TOMMY LASORDA Living with Michael Jackson.
MARTIN BASHIR I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
I looked up at him and arched a brow. "I'm a girl...
TAMMARA WEBBER We want to treat independent living youth who are in foster care the same as any other child in the ...
LEE JOHNSON The first questions to be asked and answered in every contingency of life being: How will this thoug...
ALDOUS HUXLEY Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults i...
VIRGINIA SATIR You don't want rich people living off poor people who are selling body parts to stay alive.
GEORGE ANNAS All we can do is offer a little hope. The families are just desperate. Most of them are the working ...
CANDY CAPOGROSSI This is a crazy culture. Absolutely nutty. You see it reflected everywhere you look, the desperate s...
JUDY COLLINS I think it's easier to identify with guys who are just trying to make a living and working day t...
CONNOR PAOLO We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Comprehending the universal aesthetic of limitless beauty, I will find clever & helpful ways to shar...
STR8NUOUT As purifiers & guides we will shine light into darkness. The light of truth.
STR8NUOUT Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.
CRISS JAMI What God says is best, indeed is best, though all men in the world are against it. Seeing, then, tha...
JOHN BUNYAN It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
SOURCE UNKNOWN I got into this business to make games that I wanted to play. Turns out that there's millions of peo...
BRUCE SHELLEY Poor tackling. We had guys in position. We've just got to make that play.
CLINT INGRAM Cary Grant, born Archie Leach, was a poor boy who could barely spell posh. That's acting for you-or ...
MELVIN MADDOCKS What kind of business world are we living in?
JACK MA We are living in a world divided by fear.
JOSHUA THOMPSON sing the song and let people do the interpretation. It is your duty to sing the unsung songs and it ...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies,
And they are fools who roam;
...
NATHANIEL COTTON We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessit...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE We were what you would call a poor family, but we were rich in so many things. We did family things ...
AUGUST WILSON Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of L...
LINDA GRANT There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have...
BAT MASTERSON The poor have become fat and happy, the rich impoverished. This is why we are in the fix we are in. ...
JUDE WANNISKI We were the only people who believed we could make it this far. Hopefully we'll do it again. That's ...
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MICHAEL GRANT The question I have is what alternative does either the county or the state have? ... Does anybody h...
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MICHAEL GRANT The Tao of Natural Breathing by Dennis Lewis is filled with drawings, insights and guidance from an ...
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“Upset?”...
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She peered closely at the alleged fish. 'I t...
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Every voice fell silent. The boy had said wh...
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MICHAEL GRANT More than two dozen kids lined a low railing around the gazebo. They were all tied to it by a rope l...
MICHAEL GRANT We were disturbed the president moved too slowly, that FEMA looked too disorganized.
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MICHAEL GRANT Don’t want no more rock,” Orc repeated.
The bleeding stopped almost immediately.
“Do...
MICHAEL GRANT Mr. Albert? Mr. Albert?” Harley said.
“Just Albert’s fine,” Albert said tersely.
�...
MICHAEL GRANT The intruders spoke no words as they rushed in. Five boys carrying baseball bats and tire irons. The...
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MICHAEL GRANT Lana leveled the gun at Penny. “Stop,” Lana said.
Penny’s reddened face grew pale. Whatev...
MICHAEL GRANT You can't let him get away with this!" Penny shrieked.
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MICHAEL GRANT Hello, freak,” Drake said.
Lana backed away, but too late. Drake leveled his gun at her.
MICHAEL GRANT Astrid and Taylor didn’t like each other much. But Taylor was an extremely valuable person to have...
MICHAEL GRANT Sam, there comes a time when the world no longer needs heroes. And then the true hero knows to walk ...
MICHAEL GRANT But when reality was hopeless, fantasy became more and more necessary.
MICHAEL GRANT And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep...
MICHAEL GRANT Hey, Sam,” Drake shouted. “I thought you’d like to know this isn’t my whole army.”
Sa...
MICHAEL GRANT Why, so we can look for some little kid who probably doesn’t even know he’s missing?”
Aga...
MICHAEL GRANT Sam, Edilio’s a good guy,” Albert said, breaking in on Sam’s gloomy thoughts. “But like I sa...
MICHAEL GRANT You know what, Sam? We created the council to take pressure off of you. Because you were falling apa...
MICHAEL GRANT Which was how Britteny ended up nestled next to Mickey, under the shelter of a painter's drop cloth....
MICHAEL GRANT Sam sent me to give you a message, Edilio. He said, ‘Tell Edilio I couldn’t kill the bugs.’”...
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Albert sighed. “He’s out of town....
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MICHAEL GRANT Hey, brah,” Quinn said.
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MICHAEL GRANT I’m trying to help,” Albert said.
“By paying him with beer?”
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MICHAEL GRANT What’s up, Albert?”
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MICHAEL GRANT Um, people.”
It wasn’t hard to get their attention. They gathered around. Even the littlest...
MICHAEL GRANT What happened?” Albert asked.
Taylor looked at Sam. Sam said nothing. He stared. First at his...
MICHAEL GRANT Female say Pack Leader stop,” Pack Leader said angrily.
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MICHAEL GRANT The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, tota...
MICHAEL GRANT What’s Albert going to do?” a boy named Jim demanded. “Where’s Albert?”
Albert steppe...
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MICHAEL GRANT Hand me my pants,
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MICHAEL GRANT promise me, Sam: whatever it takes to win, whatever it takes to survive.”
“Astrid—”
MICHAEL GRANT He overheard the director talking to one of the cameramen. The cameraman was explaining that he coul...
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MICHAEL GRANT Man, sometimes you are clueless. You don’t even see what’s happening.” He perched himself on t...
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MICHAEL GRANT You’re supposed to be the big boss.”
Sam said nothing. The crowd hushed, ready to watch thi...
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MICHAEL GRANT A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about
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MICHAEL GRANT Sam woke to a feeling of utter, profound, incredible relief.
He closed his eyes as soon as he o...
MICHAEL GRANT We’re not going to give in. We’re going to fight.”
“Got that right,” a voice cried ou...
MICHAEL GRANT Tell me something, Noah. Which is more important: freedom or happiness?'
What was this, a...
MICHAEL GRANT And death is better because death is the end of fear, isnt it? -Dekka
MICHAEL GRANT (...) But Gaia had absorbed the new information. "I won't need to kill billions, Diana. When Nemesis...
MICHAEL GRANT Still Caine hesitated. A big, warm bed. A beautiful girl to share it with. Food. Water. Everything h...
MICHAEL GRANT No, I'm not a jerk, Astrid. You know what I am? I'm the guy getting people killed," Sam said quietly...
MICHAEL GRANT Brittney, it was wrong to murder even before Moses brought down the commandments. Right and wrong do...
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MICHAEL GRANT It's over, Sam. Finally."
"Yeah," he said. "I guess it is."
"Turn out the light, Sam."
MICHAEL GRANT Hello, Darkness," Caine said.
Gaia's face fell. Her bloody, feral grin faded to be replaced by ...
MICHAEL GRANT It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find...
MICHAEL GRANT Caine tried to roll to his feet, but something was jabbing him in the crouch. He shook off the stars...
MICHAEL GRANT You're a big, lovable teddy bear.
MICHAEL GRANT Come live with us, Diana. Don't argue. Just say yes."
Diana looked at the ground to hide her em...
MICHAEL GRANT Say it. But..."
"But what?" he asked.
She whispered it, sounding too vulnerable. "But only...
MICHAEL GRANT It took Caine a few beats to get it. “No. Go kill yourself. Eat your own gun. No. No no no.”
MICHAEL GRANT Find Sam Temple. Tell him you escaped.”
Jack gulped and bobbed his head.
“Better yet, ...
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MICHAEL GRANT My little man,” she said.
“No.”
She stretched out her hand to him. “Come.”
...
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MICHAEL GRANT Delay of pain: that was the meaning of life, wasn’t it?
“I’ve made some bad decisions,”...
MICHAEL GRANT But then had come the voice that said, "Come on, you little freak, wherever the hell you are,
w...
MICHAEL GRANT It’s not about the powers, man; it’s that we aren’t kids anymore. Look what we’ve been throu...
MICHAEL GRANT Endgame,” Sam muttered, not really expecting Caine to hear.
“Yep,” Caine said. “That’...
MICHAEL GRANT But hey this was the FAYZ, where all you could really hope was to delay the pain.
MICHAEL GRANT And now, at last, gaiaphage and Nemesis stood facing each other.
“Why didn’t you just . . ....
MICHAEL GRANT I’m sorry for hurting you. I know I did. I’m most likely dead now, and I guess if there’s any ...
MICHAEL GRANT You need to think about all that, Sam,” Dekka said. “You’re the leader, after all.”
“...
MICHAEL GRANT Do you love me?” Diana asked.
Caine’s eyes widened. She could actually see him twitch. Like...
MICHAEL GRANT Hunter woke suddenly. A noise.
It was a noise unlike anything he’d ever heard before. Close! ...
MICHAEL GRANT He reached over and took Taylor’s hand. She did not pull her hand away.
He moved his hand up ...
MICHAEL GRANT Little Pete. He’s not exactly just Astrid’s autistic brother.” He explained briefly while Toto...
MICHAEL GRANT Quinn came forward and Sam pulled him aside. His old friend looked tortured and sad.
“What’...
MICHAEL GRANT Have a seat with me,” Caine said, hopping down from the wall. “How have you been, Taylor?”
MICHAEL GRANT And he thought of the two people who had held his job before him: Sam and Astrid. Both beaten into d...
MICHAEL GRANT Today, each of you will make a decision,” Caine said. “To go with Sam, or to stay here. I won’...
MICHAEL GRANT He’s not the first to say that.
MICHAEL GRANT Like a bullet out of a gun. His big paws had caught the dog before the dog could even flinch.
MICHAEL GRANT Sam was starting to feel anxious. Nutella and noodles were fine. Great in fact. Miraculous. But he'd...
MICHAEL GRANT The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or somethi...
MICHAEL GRANT Mother Mary wants to draft two more kids,” Astrid told Sam.
“Okay. Approved.”
“Dah...
MICHAEL GRANT First off,” he said, “I want to say I’m sorry about E.Z. He was a good kid. He didn’t deserv...
MICHAEL GRANT Its the fate of all creators: They fall in love with their creations.
MICHAEL GRANT Have you seen Sam?” Mary asked.
“What do you want with Sam?”
“I can’t take care ...
MICHAEL GRANT Sam Temple kept a lower profile. He stuck to jeans and understated T-shirts, nothing that drew atten...
MICHAEL GRANT Sam walked cautiously around Pack Leader to see the other side. There were the insect jaws protrudin...
MICHAEL GRANT Astrid felt a towering wave of disgust. She was furious with Sam. Furious with Little Pete. Mad at t...
MICHAEL GRANT At night we cry sometimes, and if you think that just applies to the females then you have never bee...
MICHAEL GRANT The Tao of Natural Breathing by Dennis Lewis is filled with drawings, insights and guidance from an ...
MICHAEL GRANT Why are we doing this?" Caine asked him. "You know damned well why we're doing this. Because it's a ...
MICHAEL GRANT I’m getting my stuff,” he said, and bolted for the steps.
“You don’t have to move out,�...
MICHAEL GRANT The warrior who had gone out from the lake to save his people by slaying the evil one was now just a...
MICHAEL GRANT