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BRYAN SANDERSON I would have waited five hundred more years for you. A thousand years. And if this was all the time ...
SARAH J. MAAS The advances that have been made in technology have really allowed the toys to do more for less mone...
CHRISTOPHER BYRNE To have more... Be more. Do more. Give more.
LORRIN L. LEE Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for ...
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE This celebration has been 150 years in the making, and it's one that no other major American brewing...
NORMAN ADAMI I've been here for five years and I think there's more cooperation in our region than there's ever b...
JENNIFER DALY To be in business for 150 years -- and to do well -- is something.
JASON STREET We have been anticipating the opportunity to participate in the growing China market for five years.
ATHAR KHAN These boxes have been ripe to run managed services for many years. And we want to see more partners ...
CRAIG CARPENTER Cities were monitoring more and going into shock over what pollution had been ignored for years if n...
BRUCE REZNIK We'll have to be more selective in where the phones are. Now instead of 450 phones we'll have only 1...
GLENN MENARD China is changing the world's economic landscape, and FedEx has been part of this great change since...
FREDERICK SMITH We've been using vaccination in some form for hundreds of years now. We have almost nothing in o...
EULA BISS More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to Chi...
JACKIE CHAN China offers the best option for breaking 100 years of U.S. domination, More and more Chinese non-le...
HUGO CHAVEZ Destiny consist in the moments that we experienced, and not in the choices we have to do.
DANIEL MELGAçO We've accumulated more than 40 awards for F-150 over the past two years. We simply know truck custom...
DOUG SCOTT Being an actress in China, I'm actually a very lucky actress... Especially now that Chinese movi...
ZHOU XUN We were looking to be able to have enough storage to hold more than 150 courses, and we didn't have ...
JOE KITCHENS I think the fact that we have been here the past couple of years had a lot to do with our success. I...
DAN ROLFES For many years we have supplied video processing equipment to markets throughout China. We were prou...
BOB NOONAN Typically, if you reward something, you get more of it. You punish something, you get less of it. An...
DANIEL H. PINK While China succeeded in transferring nearly 150 million people from agriculture to manufacturing, w...
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ROD PHILLIPS U.S. exports to China have more than quintupled since China entered the WTO and have grown more quic...
HENRY PAULSON We have a lot of great things in the auction. There are more than 150 separate items to choose from.
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NOURIEL ROUBINI I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and wil...
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ANGUS GRAHAM When we met with representatives for Travel Michigan to review the tourism indicators that we have b...
DON HOLECEK Women are allowed more freedoms and we're fighting for more freedoms, we're experiencing mor...
PAM GRIER We have been in discussions for a second park in China for some time. But we have priorities and a f...
IRENE CHAN We have not won the Championship for more than 30 years and it is something we really want to do.
PAUL TERRY Just a few years ago, China definitely wasn't ready and didn't have consumers at the level of Vogue....
ANGELICA CHEUNG In many cases they didn't have to provide a signature. Now we're being asked to provide more and mor...
TERRENCE DEFRANCO Historically, there have been periods where it is more advantageous to raise equity and more advanta...
GORDON BELL In the years since 9/11, more terrorists have been created through this President's policies than we...
BILL PASCRELL [Despite that, and the fact that those viruses have been circulating in China for a dozen years, alm...
PETER PALESE For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they ...
PAUL MARTIN In attempting to minimize congestion, perhaps we were more cautious than we should have been.
IRIS WEINSHALL I've been doing this kind of work for over fifty years now, and nothing in this strange and frighten...
M.C. ESCHER Being a decorator allowed me to see what about people's environments made them happy. And what t...
ALEXANDRA STODDARD We've been in business more than 200 years. I'm sure we have some stories.
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JEFFREY MAXICK I think grandmothers are more open, even more than mothers sometimes, to the goodness in children. W...
CAROLYN PETERSON If this trend had continued for three more years, something similar to the fall of the Berlin Wall w...
LI PENG like many other countries, China seeks to acquire our sensitive information and technology. We have ...
CHRISTOPHER COX The last couple years we passed more and were more balanced. Before that we ran 65 to 75 percent of ...
LADAINIAN TOMLINSON At first I thought we weren't going to get many people. But then as time went on we got more and mor...
MATTHEW KILLION We have specifically chosen companies that have performed well for more than 20 years, and in some c...
DANNY MILLER I'm a huge planner, more and more so as the years go by.
EMMA DONOGHUE If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainl...
TAYLOR DAYNE The interesting thing is we have fledged 173,000-plus bluebirds in the last 10 years. It took a long...
BOB NIEBUHR To China, and to the specific market of Hong Kong, we have more to learn.
BILL EARNEST We now have to be more methodical, look for more back-door cuts and things. We have to shorten games...
DARIN JOHNSON Are you being the best you can be? Are you doing the best you can do? Do you have the best you can h...
LORRIN L. LEE We have spent more money in the last five years upgrading and expanding services than we have in the...
CLIFF CORBETT Now the proposal is yet again another $150 billion before we start to think about a freeze. But $150...
ERIC CANTOR In recent years, more and more commercial advertisements in China involve the participation of child...
CAI ZIXING We've been called out with search and rescue this week more than we have in so many years. And there...
BRENDAN MCDERMOTT We've been coming down here to East Texas and this alumni function for the last nine years now. Each...
BOBBY ALLEN We have hated the French for years. Now you have just joined the club. It makes you much more likabl...
SIMON COWELL In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have mov...
JINATO HU I'm in a situation now, and I have been for ten or fifteen years, where there's no point in my being...
PHILIP LEVINE China has learned from the SARS experience and has been more open and more willing to respond to dis...
APHALUCK BHATIASEVI For starters, it allowed me to find Wausau Insurance and Taco Bell. They allowed me to skate four mo...
CASEY FITZRANDOLPH The greens definitely were a little softer, which allowed me to attack more pins. The greens being s...
JIM FURYK In every war zone that I've been in, there has been a reality and then there has been the public...
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MICHAEL FIELDS It became not fun for anybody involved. We were just touring all the time, hating each other more an...
JAMIE THOMPSON Lucent's accounting practices will now be more in line with those of most major U.S. corporations. L...
DONALD PETERSON Back then, it was more or less we couldn't change a line in our script. We weren't allowed to change...
DONNA DOUGLAS Their earnings have been disappointing, unlike the rest of the market. They are facing more competit...
GEOFF LEWIS Delphi has been allowed to languish inside Borland for years in terms of marketing.
RANDY MAGRUDER UPS now flies to more points in China than any other US airline, freight or passenger.
DAVID ABNEY It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the yo...
TATJANA PATITZ So far it's been used in the more serious cases we attend, but now we might kick it up a notch and u...
ALEX MCLEOD In years past, we would give 100 percent and hoped we would win. Now there's a feeling of, 'We're go...
DAN KOLB We got the word Thursday at about 1 p.m.. We were told nobody would be allowed outside. We haven't b...
CINDY CUTHBERTSON We have made incredible progress in lowering our operational costs for over two years now. However, ...
DAN GARTON In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression al...
PATRICK J. KENNEDY For the past seven years we have been cracking down on crime in Missouri, passing tougher laws for d...
MEL CARNAHAN China is now a more important trading partner than Japan.
IRENE CHEUNG As we have seen in Bosnia, we have been there for more than three years, and it wasn't just one dead...
OLYMPIA SNOWE China is becoming more and more of an important market for a variety of businesses, and they have to...
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TERRY ANDREESSEN Our assistance in Somalia has been remarkably effective and successful, and we have helped with very...
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BRANDON SANDERSON The only point in creating something is to watch it die. Like a story that must come to a climax, wh...
BRANDON SANDERSON There was rarely an obvious branching point in a person's life. People changed slowly, over time. Yo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Once one becomes a man, he can and must make his own decisions. But I do offer warning. Even a good ...
BRANDON SANDERSON I ask of you your lives,” Elend said, voice echoing, “and your courage. I ask of you your faith,...
BRANDON SANDERSON What wonders could be achieved, what progress could be made, if mankind were to permanently set asid...
BRANDON SANDERSON It’s not a lie,” Shallan said, “if everyone understands and knows what it means.”
“Mm...
BRANDON SANDERSON I wanted to move. I needed to move. But in those moments, I could more easily have lifted a s...
BRANDON SANDERSON Those who take lightly promises they make to those they love are people who find little lasting sati...
BRANDON SANDERSON That caravan looks as if it’s all Vorin. Also, you look a little spindly for a Horneater.”
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BRANDON SANDERSON Spook smiled. "Elend is a forgetful scholar - twice as bad as Sazed ever was. He gets lost in his bo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Oh, thank you, I thought, feeling an overwhelming sense of relief. Dancing was stressful—but murde...
BRANDON SANDERSON Men protect things they find important," Galladon said with a shrug. "If you object, you shouldn't h...
BRANDON SANDERSON Attacking a provincial lord in his manor house, surrounded by guards...Honestly, Kell, I'd nearly fo...
BRANDON SANDERSON Too many of us take great pains with what we ingest through our mouths, and far less with what we pa...
BRANDON SANDERSON There is something beyond. Though perhaps my belief is merely my own desire wishing it to be so." BRANDON SANDERSON Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasna...
BRANDON SANDERSON As accurate as a blind man pissing during an earthquake.”
“Wow...,” I breathed.
She ...
BRANDON SANDERSON Kelsier rapped lightly on the door, and Dockson strolled over, pulling it open.
"And he makes h...
BRANDON SANDERSON Most of you Mistborn are probably too proud to crawl. I'm surprised you were willing to do so yourse...
BRANDON SANDERSON You'll want something mid-range. A 5.56 all right?"
"I suppose."
"AR-15?"
"Ugh. AR-15...
BRANDON SANDERSON Ear demons are totally real," Cody said. "They're what make microphones like these ones work. They'r...
BRANDON SANDERSON I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each...
BRANDON SANDERSON You've never heard of bagpipes?" Cody asked, sounding aghast. "They're as Scottish as kilts a...
BRANDON SANDERSON One night I saw Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, and Elvis for a dollar, if you believe that, i...
WILLIAM SANDERSON Why is it you trust my daughter so much when others almost universally revile her?"
"I consider...
BRANDON SANDERSON We are forecast overnight frost and minus two, so we need to have a look in the morning and take it ...
JAMES SANDERSON Never go on a date unarmed.” Words of wisdom from my father. Well, my foster father. I was an orph...
BRANDON SANDERSON Can a woman not walk with her possessions down the street of a city?
BRANDON SANDERSON The only time you seem honest is when you’re insulting someone!”
“The only honest things ...
BRANDON SANDERSON But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.
BRANDON SANDERSON